The Cabinet considered proposed approach to bringing forward residential development, and the essential supporting social infrastructure, in the Town Centre, as part of the wider commitment to its regeneration and the Cabinet’s commitment to Brownfield First development and agreed that:-
· the Town Centre Living Development Framework document annexed to the report be endorsed;
· the specific proposals relating to planning policy set out in the Development Framework be approved, namely:
· exploring the potential to pool Section 106 contributions; and
· exploring the targeted use of the Article 4 Direction to influence the quality of development carried out under the General Permitted Development Order(s)
· approval be given to the production of a Residential Design Guide for approval in late summer;
· approval be given to the production of a Strategic Regeneration Framework for the Town Centre West area as part of wider work to create an appropriate delivery vehicle to unlock development in the Town Centre West area; and
· the work underway to bring forward transformative residential schemes on the Interchange and Weir Mill sites be noted.