Issue - meetings

To consider a report of the Service Director (Place Development).

The report details the Boroughwide framework for the Council in taking formal Planning Enforcement action as part of an Enforcement Development Plan Document (DPD).

Due to the removal of Planning Policy Guidance 18: Enforcing Planning Control by the recently published National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF), there is a requirement for Local Planning Authorities to develop a local planning policy document covering planning enforcement. In the case of the Council, this involves updating its existing standalone planning enforcement policy. The role of the Enforcement Policy DPD is to provide a framework to secure the implementation of the LDF, in particular to secure compliance with the adopted Core Strategy. The Enforcement Policy DPD will become part of the Local Development Framework (LDF) and will set out how the Council should carry out its planning enforcement activities.

The Area Committee is recommended to comment on the report.

Officer contact: Dave Westhead on 474 3520 or email: dave.westhead@stockport.gov.uk

A representative of the Democratic Services Manager submitted a report of the Service Director (Place Development) (copies of which had been circulated) inviting the Area Committee and the public to take part in the consultation on the recently published preferred options for the Council’s Enforcement Development Plan Document that would provide a borough-wide framework for the Council to take formal planning enforcement action.

RESOLVED – That the report be noted.

To consider a report of the Service Director (Place Development).

The report details the Boroughwide framework for the Council in taking formal Planning Enforcement action as part of an Enforcement Development Plan Document (DPD).

Due to the removal of Planning Policy Guidance 18: Enforcing Planning Control by the recently published National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF), there is a requirement for Local Planning Authorities to develop a local planning policy document covering planning enforcement. In the case of the Council, this involves updating its existing standalone planning enforcement policy. The role of the Enforcement Policy DPD is to provide a framework to secure the implementation of the LDF, in particular to secure compliance with the adopted Core Strategy. The Enforcement Policy DPD will become part of the Local Development Framework (LDF) and will set out how the Council should carry out its planning enforcement activities.

The Area Committee is recommended to comment on the report.

Officer contact: Dave Westhead on 474 3520 or email: dave.westhead@stockport.gov.uk

A representative of the Democratic Services Manager submitted a report of the Service Director (Place Development) (copies of which had been circulated) inviting the Area Committee and the public to take part in the consultation on the recently published preferred options for the Council’s Enforcement Development Plan Document that would provide a borough-wide framework for the Council to take formal planning enforcement action.

RESOLVED – That the report be noted.