Issue - meetings
Validation Requirements for Planning Applications – Major planning applications and Sustainable Drainage requirements
Meeting: 15/10/2020 - Planning and Highways Committee (Item 25)
PDF 186 KBFor Members to agree and recommend that the
list of requirements for the submission of planning applications is
amended as detailed in the report, in order to ensure that
Blackburn With Darwen has an up-to-date formally adopted scheme
with reference to recent policy changes.
Minutes:
Members were requested to agree and recommend that the list of requirements for the submission of planning applications be amended as detailed in the agenda report, in order to ensure that Blackburn with Darwen has an up-to-date formally adopted scheme with reference to recent policy changes.
The Council was required to keep an up-to-date list of the requirements for the validation of planning applications known as the Local Validation Checklist. It was last reviewed on the 18th October 2019. Since the adoption of the latest lists, there have been no changes, which would require a full review of the list until October 2021.
In July 2020, the need for all major developments, and developments within Critical Drainage Areas to be supported was introduced. The measures reinforced existing national sustainable drainage requirements and any relevant developments now cannot be lawfully validated without meeting those requirements.
RESOLVED – That Members support the proposed change to the Local Validation Checklist