Issue - meetings

To enable the Cabinet to consider the recommendations made to it by the Planning Policy & Local Plan Committee in relation to the Brightlingsea Hall and All Saints Church Conservation Area Appraisal and Management Plan that had been prepared for the Council by Essex Place Services.

RESOLVED that the new Conservation Area Appraisal and Management Plan for Brightlingsea Hall & All Saints Church, Brightlingsea be approved for consultation with the public and other interested parties.

Cabinet was informed that the Planning Policy & Local Plan Committee (“the Committee”), at its meeting held on 23 January 2023 (Minute 32 referred), had considered a comprehensive report (and appendix) of the Director (Planning) which had reported to it the Brightlingsea Hall and All Saints Church Conservation Area Appraisal and Management Plan that had been prepared for the Council by Essex Place Services. That report had also sought the Committee’s recommendation to Cabinet that they be approved for public consultation purposes.

The Committee’s decision at its meeting held on 23 January 2023 had been as follows:-

“RESOLVED that the Planning Policy and Local Plan Committee:

a)     endorses the new Conservation Area Appraisal and Management Plan for Brightlingsea Hall and All Saints Church (Appendix 1 to item A.4 of the Report of the Director (Planning));

b)     recommends to Cabinet that the above document be published for consultation with the public and other interested parties; and

c)      notes that Conservation Area Appraisal and Management Plans for the District’s remaining Conservation Areas will be brought before the Committee in due course and before the new financial year.”

Cabinet had before it the following comment submitted by the Portfolio Holder for Planning:-

“I thank the Planning Policy and Local Plan Committee for its consideration of this latest Conservation Area Character Appraisal and Management Plan and I sincerely welcome, once again, its recommendation to Cabinet that this be published for public consultation. Reviewing all of the District’s Conservation Areas is one of the key actions in the Council’s Heritage Strategy and the progress so far has been very good. Ensuring we have an up-to-date appraisal for each and every Conservation Area will enable residents, developers, planners and our Planning Committee to understand the key characteristics that make each area special and which need to be preserved and enhanced when making planning applications and determining them. They will also enable us to reconsider the boundaries of each area and determine whether any Article 4 Directions are needed to provide an extra level of protection and control.”

Having duly considered the recommendation submitted to it by the Planning Policy & Local Plan Committee:-

It was moved by Councillor Bray, seconded by Councillor McWilliams and:-

RESOLVED that the new Conservation Area Appraisal and Management Plan for Brightlingsea Hall & All Saints Church, Brightlingsea be approved for consultation with the public and other interested parties.