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Sevenoaks District Draft Local Plan Consultation July 2018

Meeting: 11/09/2018 - Strategic Planning, Sustainability and Transportation Committee (Item 70)

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Minutes:

Miss Anna Houghton, Planning Policy Officer, introduced the report.  Miss Houghton informed the Committee that, in addition to the points raised in the report, the key aspects of the Sevenoaks District Draft Local Plan were:

 

·  That that the proposed housing strategy did not meet the required need;

 

·  The proposal to introduce an Article 4 Direction to prevent further loss of office space;

 

·  That Gypsy and Traveller need could be met within the District; and

 

·  The plan proposed a financial requirement for affordable housing from small sites.

Following questions from the Committee, Officers responded that:

 

·  The Maidstone Borough Council response to the consultation stipulated that Sevenoaks District Council would need to consider all options, including the use of Green Belt land; and

 

·  The immediacy of the Article 4 Direction was not currently known, however, it was not a blanket Article 4 Direction and was focussed on specific sites.

 

RESOLVED: That the response to the Sevenoaks District Draft Local Plan Consultation July 2018 set out in Appendix 1 be approved.

 

Voting: Unanimous