Agenda item

A report by the Director of Planning and Regeneration.

The Council received a report by the Director of Planning and Regeneration which presented the Fareham Local Plan 20237 for adoption.

The recommendations (a) to (c) of the Executive detailed at page 25 of the agenda pack were taken into account in considering this item.

The petition received on 08 December 2017 which comprised 2,390 signatures and requested that the Council “stop the building of 1,500 new homes in Warsash, Locks Heath, Park Gate and Titchfield Common” was taken into account during consideration of this item.

Having been duly proposed by Councillor I J Bastable and seconded by Councillor Mrs S Walker, the provisions of Standing Order 2.15 were suspended to allow the Executive Leader and the Executive Member for Planning and Development to present the report and to speak for longer than five minutes; and further that Standing Order 2.16 be suspended to allow all Members to speak more than once on the debate.

During the debate on this item, the Council placed on record its thanks to Gayle Wootton, Head of Planning Strategy and Economic Development, and her team for the tremendous amount of work done to bring the Local Plan through consultation, examination and adoption.

RESOLVED that the Council resolves to adopt:

(a)      the Fareham Local Plan 2037, as attached at Annex A - Appendices 2 which incorporates:

                    i.       the Inspector’s main modifications to the Fareham Local Plan 2037 (Annex A -Appendix 1), and

                   ii.      the minor modifications (Annex A - Appendix 3 Part 1) and subsequent minor changes (Annex A - Appendix 3 – Part 2) to the Fareham Local Plan 2037;

(b)      the Policies Map as set out in Annex A - Appendix 4;

(c)       that the Director of Planning and Regeneration, following consultation with the Executive Member for Planning and Development, be authorised to publish and circulate in accordance with the statutory requirements, an Adoption Notice, a Sustainability Appraisal Adoption Statement (Annex A - Appendix 5) and the adopted version of the Fareham Local Plan 2037, as soon as reasonably practicable after adoption.