Issue - meetings

Please note that Appendix 1 to this item can be accessed here

The Council resolved:-

(i)             to approve the draft Aberdeen Planning Guidance and Supplementary Guidance documents set out in Appendix 1 and instruct the Chief Officer - Strategic Place Planning to publish them, subject to any minor drafting changes, for a six-week period of public consultation;

(ii)           to instruct the Chief Officer - Strategic Place Planning to report the results of the public consultation and any proposed revisions to the draft Aberdeen Planning Guidance and Supplementary Guidance documents to Members at a subsequent meeting of Full Council within 12 months of the consultation ending;

(iii)          to instruct the Chief Officer - Strategic Place Planning to consult the Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) Gateway on associated SEA Screening Reports for the draft Aberdeen Planning Guidance documents, and to publicise the result of the Screening Determinations via a public notice;

(iv)          to adopt the draft Aberdeen Planning Guidance and Supplementary Guidance documents as Interim Planning Advice from the date of adoption of the Aberdeen Local Development Plan 2023; and

(v)           to instruct the Chief Officer - Strategic Place Planning to make any minor technical drafting updates which may be required to other existing non-statutory planning guidance.

The Council had before it a report by the Director of Commissioning which presented draft Aberdeen Planning Guidance and Supplementary Guidance to the emerging Aberdeen Local Development Plan 2023 for approval and consultation.

The report recommended:-

that the Council -

(a)          approve the draft Aberdeen Planning Guidance and Supplementary Guidance documents set out in Appendix 1 and instruct the Chief Officer - Strategic Place Planning to publish them, subject to any minor drafting changes, for a six-week period of public consultation;

(b)          instruct the Chief Officer - Strategic Place Planning to report the results of the public consultation and any proposed revisions to the draft Aberdeen Planning Guidance and Supplementary Guidance documents to Members at a subsequent meeting of Full Council within 12 months of the consultation ending;

(c)          instruct the Chief Officer - Strategic Place Planning to consult the Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) Gateway on associated SEA Screening Reports for the draft Aberdeen Planning Guidance documents, and to publicise the result of the Screening Determinations via a public notice;

(d)          adopt the draft Aberdeen Planning Guidance and Supplementary Guidance documents as Interim Planning Advice from the date of adoption of the Aberdeen Local Development Plan 2023; and

(e)          instruct the Chief Officer - Strategic Place Planning to make any minor technical drafting updates which may be required to other existing non-statutory planning guidance.

The Council resolved:-

to approve the recommendations.