Agenda item

Simplified Planning Zone - Slough Trading Estate

Decision:

That it be agreed that the Council work with SEGRO to develop a new SPZ and to notify the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities of the Council’s intention to do so.

Minutes:

The Lead Member for Housing & Planning introduced a report on the background to the Simplified Planning Zone (SPZ) for the Slough Trading Estate and sought authorization to notify the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities that the Council intended to work with SEGRO on a new SPZ.

 

SPZs were defined areas that granted planning permission for a range of pre-agreed uses for a period of ten years.  The Lead Member highlighted that notifying the Secretary of State did not bind the Council to enter into an SPZ and this was the start of the process.  The current SPZ expired and the end of 2024 and starting the process now would provide sufficient time to engage with SEGRO on the conditions applied to the SPZ in terms of the scale and uses permitted within the SPZ and the Section 106 that would accompany it to mitigate the impacts of the developments that would take place over the decade.  The SPZ area was likely to slightly increase as outlined in the maps in the appendix. 

 

The Cabinet agreed to work with SEGRO and to notify the Secretary of State.  Lead Members discussed some of the likely planning issues that would arise during the discussions including the growth sectors that would shape future uses and the contours of the trading estate particular where it met residential areas.  In relation to the package of mitigations issues such as skills and sustainable transport would be areas for discussion.

 

Resolved –  That it be agreed that the Council work with SEGRO to develop a new SPZ and to notify the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities of the Council’s intention to do so.

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