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Agenda and minutes

Agenda and minutes

Venue: The Executive Meeting Room - Third Floor, The Guildhall, Portsmouth. View directions

Contact: Vicki Plytas 02392 834058  Email: vicki.plytas@portsmouthcc.gov.uk

Items
No. Item

14.

Declarations of Members' Interests

Minutes:

There were no declarations of members' interests.

15.

Apologies for Absence

Minutes:

There were no apologies for absence but Councillor Chowdhury apologised for lateness.

16.

Houses in Multiple Occupation - Supplementary Planning Document (SPD) pdf icon PDF 152 KB

The purpose of this report is to seek approval for public consultation on amendments to the Supplementary Planning Document (SPD): Houses in multiple occupation (HMOs): ensuring mixed and balanced communities.

 

RECOMMENDED that

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(1)   the amended SPD (attached as Appendix 1) be approved for public consultation, and

(2)  The Assistant Director of Culture and City Development be authorised to make editorial amendments to the wording of the amended SPD prior to public consultation, in consultation with the Leader with responsibility for Planning, Regeneration and Economic Development.  These amendments shall be restricted to correcting errors and formatting text and shall not alter the meaning of the document.

 

 

 

 

 

Additional documents:

Minutes:

(TAKE IN REPORT and appendix -  proposed revised SPD - Houses in Multiple Occupation)

 

The Leader of the Council with responsibilities for PRED welcomed everyone to the meeting and advised that three deputation requests had been received. Claire Upton-Brown, Assistant Director of Culture and City Development briefly introduced the report .  She said the purpose of the report was to seek approval for public consultation on amendments to the Supplementary Planning Document (SPD): Houses in Multiple Occupation (HMOs): ensuring mixed and balanced communities.  She advised that the SPD had proved to be a robust document detailing how Policy PCS20 will be applied when considering applications for HMOs.  The Planning Committee had asked that the document be reviewed to deal specifically with matters relating to change of use from  C4 to Sui Generis HMOs, thresholds, living conditions and impact on the amenities of neighbours specifically relating to the change of use of smaller homes.  Whilst the current Policy PCS20 remains unchanged, the issues and options around future approaches to HMOs will be examined and developed as part of the Local Plan review.

She advised that the proposed amendments were set out in  section 5 of the report.

She also drew attention to section 4 of the report that detailed how consultation would be carried out on the draft SPD (attached as an appendix to the report).

 

Mr Martin Willoughby, East St Thomas' Neighbourhood Forum, gave the first deputation which included the following points

·         he welcomed the redraft of PCS20 and said that developers had sought to circumvent the 10% concentration rule by applying to change the use of existing C4 HMOs to sui generis HMOs in areas where there is already a concentration of over 10% and gave some examples of how this had happened. The increasing frequency of such applications meant that something should be done as a matter of urgency to enable the Planning Committee to refuse such applications

·         He would like to see a requirement for local residents to be specifically considered as part of any such application

·         consultation with local communities was essential

·         He would like no further delay in this consultation as he said it had already taken some years to get to this point.

 

Councillor Tom Wood then made a deputation that included the following points

·         He thanked the Leader of the Council for the non-political way in which this matter had been brought forward and was pleased that this had been done consensually and for her willingness to meet with him to discuss the matter

·         He fully endorsed the proposals - particularly paragraph 1.15 of the policy concerning the 10% threshold.

·         He was pleased that consultation with residents would be taking place but said this should be carried out without further delay and did not think there would be confusion with other consultation taking place on the current Local Plan issues and Options consultation.

 

Mr Jerry Brown then made his deputation including the following points

·         The Planning Committee has been unable to refuse applications  ...  view the full minutes text for item 16.