Agenda and minutes

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The Head of Planning and City Regeneration presented a report which outlined to Members the representations received during the public consultation on the draft version of the guidance and highlighted officer responses to these, the report also sought approval to formally adopt the amended version as Supplementary Planning Guidance.

Officers provided a detailed and informative visual presentation to the Committee which outlined the main issues and background relating to the updating and revising of the document.

In response to the presentation, Members asked a series of questions on the revised guidance, to which officers responded accordingly.

Resolved that

a) the issues raised in the representations made during the consultation process, and the responses of the Planning Authority to these (set out at Appendix A to the report), be noted;

b) the final version of the SPG (attached at Appendix B to the report) be approved and adopted by the Council;

c) the Head of Planning and City Regeneration, or appropriate delegated officer, be authorised to make any outstanding typographical, grammatical, presentational or factual amendments to the SPG prior to its final publication.

The Head of Planning and City Regeneration presented a report which detailed the representations received during the consultation on the Mumbles Conservation Area Review, and sought agreement on the proposed amendments to the draft guide and to adopt the relevant document as Supplementary Planning Guidance.

Officers provided a detailed and informative visual presentation to the Committee which outlined the both the historical background to the introduction of the first guidance and the main issues and background matters relating to the updating and revising of the document which included the expansion of the area to be covered by the conservation area.

In response to the presentation, Members asked a series of questions on the revised guidance, to which officers responded accordingly.

Resolved that

a)   the issues raised in the representations made during the consultation process, and the responses of the Planning Authority to these (as set out at Appendix B and C to the report), be noted;

b)   the final version of the Mumbles Conservation Area Character Appraisal and Management Plan (as set out at Appendix A to the report), be approved and adopted by the Council as Supplementary Planning Guidance;

c)    the new Mumbles Conservation Area Boundary (as set out at Appendix D to the report) be approved;

d)   the Head of Planning and City Regeneration, or appropriate delegated officer, be authorised to make any outstanding typographical, grammatical, presentational or factual amendments to the SPG prior to its final publication.