Agenda item

For noting.

6.1  The Validation Checklist for Planning Applications indicates the national and local validation requirements for full, outline, reserved matters and variation of condition applications. The OPDC’s first Validation Checklist was approved by the Planning Committee in November 2015 and is reviewed every two years. The revised draft Validation Checklist is proposed to be consulted on alongside the Regulation 19 Local Plan for a period of six weeks before being reported back to the Committee for final approval.

6.3  Members considered the updated checklist. In response to a question on the implications of a government decision to introduce restrictions on the ability of planning authorities to require pre-commencement conditions, it was noted that such a direction would have to be complied with.

6.4  Officers agreed that the validation list would be amended prior to consultation to make clear that ‘large-scale’ major developments would also be required to undertake the required validation requirements for ‘major’ developments.

6.5  DECISION

  The Committee RESOLVED that, subject to the minor amendment clarifying the validation requirements for ‘large-scale’ major developments as above, the revised draft Validation Checklist be approved for consultation (to take place alongside the public consultation on the Local Plan, subject to its approval by the OPDC Board).