Agenda and minutes

  The Chair welcomed everyone to the meeting

To identify items which have been admitted to the agenda by the Chair for consideration.

(The special circumstance shall be specified in the minutes).

There were no formal late items but the Chair made reference to an e-mail which had been sent to all Panel Members by Councillor Ilingworth stating that the comments he had made as part of the consultation had not been included in the report , particularly in respect of a natural footpath desire line at Dunkirk Hill

Councillor Taggart asked Officers to address the issues raised by Councillor Illingworth when presenting the report on the West Leeds Gateway SPD

To declare any personal / prejudicial interests for the purpose of Section 81(3) of the Local Government Act 2000 and paragraphs 8 to 12 of the Members’ Code of Conduct.

  The following Members declared personal/prejudicial interests for the purposes of Section 81(3) of the Local Government Act 2000 and paragraphs 8 to 12 of the Members Code of Conduct

  West Leeds Gateway Supplementary Planning Document (SPD) (minute 23 refers):

  Councillor Taggart declared a personal interest as a member of West Leeds Gateway Steering Group through his involvement with the West Leeds Gateway Programme Board which had commented as part of the consultation process

  Councillor Fox declared a personal interest as a member of Leeds Local Access Forum which had commented as part of the consultation process

  Councillor Nash declared personal interests through being a member of English Heritage which had commented as part of the consultation process and also as a Friend of Leeds Museum as proposed improvements to the Industrial Museum at Armley Mills were referred to within the SPD

  Apologies for absence were received from Councillor Mulherin

To approve the minutes of the Development Plan Panel meeting held on 13^th July 2010

(minutes attached)

  RESOLVED -  That the minutes of the Development Plan Panel meeting held on 13^th July 2010 be approved

To consider a report of the Director of City Development on the representations received during the final period of public consultation on the West Leeds Gateway SPD and to seek the Panel’s agreement to recommend to the Executive Board that it be approved

(report attached)

  Further to minute 39 of the Development Plan Panel meeting held on 9^th March 2010 where Panel accepted the proposal to convert the West Leeds Gateway Area Action Plan (AAP) to a Supplementary Planning Document (SPD), Members considered a report of the Director of City Development setting out  a summary of the responses received to the consultation carried out in June-July 2010; Officers’ responses to the comments and the proposed amendments to the SPD arising from these comments.  A copy of the SPD document was included with the papers sent to Members for the meeting

  The Head of Forward Planning and Implementation stated that following the decision to take the West Leeds Gateway document forward as an SPD, a further 6 week period of public consultation had been undertaken and it was now felt that the document was ready to be adopted as formal planning guidance

  Members were informed that a change to the process meant that the SPD did not now need to be submitted to the Secretary of State for independent examination and if Development Plan Panel was satisfied with the document the next stage would be to recommend to Executive Board that the SPD be formally adopted

  Although the SPD could not allocate land for development purposes it would inform the site allocations plan and the UDP and would support the continued regeneration of West Leeds

  The latest round of consultation resulted in 28 responses being received although Officers were unsurprised by the relatively low level of responses in view of the extensive consultation which had been carried out previously since 2005

  In addition to the amendments to be made following the last round of consultation, the document would also be amended to remove references to the Regional Spatial Strategy (RSS) following its abolition

  Officers highlighted the main areas of comment which were stated as:

·  Greenspace

·  Economics of development

·  The National Grid and Armley Gyratory

Regarding Dunkirk Hill, Officers stated that no representation had been

received from Councillor Illingworth on this matter.  However the proposal raised by Councillor Illingworth regarding the footpath running over the top of Dunkirk Hill, along the rim of the railway cutting and linking up with the Canal towpath and Kirkstall Nature Reserve was worthy of support.  Councillor Illingworth had requested this footpath be incorporated into the Definitive Footpath Map and added to West Leeds Gateway SPD

  The Panel was informed that the SPD could not designate new footpaths and there appeared to be some dispute with a private landowner about the public’s right to access a part of the route.  This was something which would need to be addressed in work being undertaken to complete the Definitive Map for Leeds and Members were informed that Councillor Illingworth’s e-mail had been forwarded to the Rights of Way team within the Council

  Officers stated that the West Leeds Gateway SPD proposed a Planning Brief for the Armley Mills site and it would be possible to incorporate  ...  view the full minutes text for item 23.

Tuesday 12^th October 2010 at 1.30pm in the Civic Hall, Leeds

  The Chair referred to the possibility of re-arranging meeting dates to enable Councillor Mulherin, who had been appointed to the Panel, to be able to attend the meetings

  The Chair stated that he would check the possibility of altering the date of the next meeting from 12^th October to 8^th October and Members would be advised if that was to be the case