Issue - meetings

Assembly received and noted a report introduced by the Cabinet Member for Regeneration on the finalised Biodiversity Trees and Development and Residential Extensions and Alterations Supplementary Planning Documents (SPDs) following public consultation on the draft SPDs.

Following questions from Members:

·  the Cabinet Member would ascertain when the black poplar tree from Her Majesty the Queen would be presented to the borough.

·  the Divisional Director, Regeneration and Economic Development advised Assembly that the Trees and Development Supplementary Planning Document had strengthened the Council's policy on protecting existing trees and ensuring the quality of new trees in relation to new developments.

Assembly agreed to adopt the Biodiversity Supplementary Planning Document, the Trees and Development Supplementary Planning Document and the Residential Extensions and Alterations Supplementary Planning Document.

The three SPDs have been circulated to all Members of the Council under separate cover.

Further to Minutes 77 (3 November 2009) and 67 (23 November 2010), the Cabinet Member for Regeneration presented a report on the finalised Biodiversity, Trees and Development and Residential Extensions and Alterations Supplementary Planning Documents (SPDs) following public consultation on the draft SPDs.

The Cabinet Member referred to the two significant changes to the Biodiversity SPD, in response to comments from the Environment Agency and Greenspace Information for Greater London, and the one significant change to the Residential Extensions and Alterations SPD. 

Cabinet agreed to recommend the Assembly to adopt the Biodiversity, Trees and Development and Residential Extensions and Alterations Supplementary Planning Documents.