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To enable the Cabinet to consider the recommendations made to it by the Planning Policy & Local Plan Committee in relation to the Jaywick Sands Design Guide Supplementary Planning Document.

RESOLVED that –

(a)    the Jaywick Sands Design Guide Supplementary Planning Document (SPD) (Appendix 1) be formally adopted, subject to the fourth bullet point of guidance “2A: Landscape character and visual impact” being amended to read as follows:-

“Visual separation between Tudor Estate and Village/Brooklands & Gardens must be maintained.”

(b)    the Director (Planning) be authorised to make any necessary minor, or consequential, amendments to the SPD before the final adopted version is published.

Cabinet was informed that the Planning Policy & Local Plan Committee (“the Committee”), at its meeting held on 23 January 2023 (Minute 31 referred), had considered a comprehensive report (and appendices) of the Director (Planning) which had reported to it the Jaywick Sands Design Guide Supplementary Planning Document (SPD). That report had also sought the Committee’s recommendation to Cabinet that the SPD be formally adopted.

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 Jaywick Sands Design Guide Supplementary Planning Document (SPD) with the Officers’ recommended alterations; and

b)     recommends to Cabinet that the SPD (forming Appendix 1 to item A.3 of the Report of the Director (Planning)) be adopted, subject to the fourth bullet point of guidance “2A: Landscape character and visual impact” being amended to read as follows:-

“Visual separation between Tudor Estate and Village/Brooklands & Gardens should must be maintained.”

c)      further recommends to Cabinet that the Director (Planning) be authorised to make any necessary minor, or consequential, amendments to the SPD before the final adopted version is published.”

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 and constructive comments on the Jaywick Sands Design Guide which has progressed through the mandatory planning process of public consultation and can now be formally adopted as a Supplementary Planning Document. For many years property owners, developers and our Planning Officers have needed to grapple with the dilemma of trying to work out what form of development might help to regenerate the area and improve the lives of residents whilst addressing flood risk and safety concerns and achieving an appropriate form of development that avoids overlooking and other design problems. This guidance will supplement our Local Plan and provide a helpful and practical template for how to redevelop existing properties and vacant plots, either on a one-for-on-basis or across a number of plots.”

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

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

RESOLVED that –

(a)    the Jaywick Sands Design Guide Supplementary Planning Document (SPD) (Appendix 1) be formally adopted, subject to the fourth bullet point of guidance “2A: Landscape character and visual impact” being amended to read as follows:-

“Visual separation between Tudor Estate and Village/Brooklands & Gardens must be maintained.”

(b)    the Director (Planning) be authorised to make any necessary minor, or consequential, amendments to the SPD before the final adopted version is published.