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Agents’ Forum July 2017

EH-TAP is a consultee advisory service that provides technical knowledge and advice on potential adverse effects related to air quality, contaminated land, noise, and odour. It aims to help applicants identify and resolve technical issues, saving time and resources. The service offers two levels of advice, preliminary and detailed, and can be utilized during the pre-application stage.

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Agents’ Forum July 2017

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  1. Agents’ ForumJuly 2017 • Marshall Plummer • Jeremy Content

  2. Householder / General Development Agents’ Forum Agenda • Welcome and introduction • Environmental Health pre-app advice: EH-TAP • PACE • Accredited Agent Scheme • Policy Update • General Development Support update • Planning Agents’ workshops • Questions, discussion and feedback from Planning Agents

  3. Householder / General Development Agents’ Forum Activities/Events since last meeting: • General election • New Councillors • Parish Councils • Housing White Paper • Staff Changes • No PAC • Previous meeting notes

  4. Housing White Paper Direction of travel “We need to build many more houses, of the type people want to live in, in the places they want to live”

  5. EH-TAP Environmental Health – Technical Advice for Planning Applicants Paul Travis James Langley July 2017

  6. What is EH-TAP? • Consultee advice and expert technical knowledge on potential adverse effects from: • Air Quality • Contaminated Land • Noise and Odour • Flexibility: • Preliminary (‘add-on’ via Planning Pre-App) • Detailed (up-front review with consultee comments)

  7. Why has EH-TAP been introduced? • Shared aim to ‘get it right first time’: • Save time and resources • EH-TAP helps identify and find solutions to technical issues • Planning ‘Pre-App Advice’ had limitations: Preliminary EH-TAP now provides specialist technical input where required • Fundeding is required to provide technical advisory service (above and beyond formal consultation responses)

  8. Key Features of EH-TAP • Two main levels of advice: • Preliminary: initial scoping, identifying potential adverse impacts/effects (Planning Pre-App ‘add-on’) • Detailed: two options including full review of assessment report and provision of detailed consultee comments • Most beneficial at pre-application stage (can sometimes be utilised at other times) • Input can also be obtained via a Planning Performance Agreement (PPA)

  9. Preliminary EH-TAP: How to apply and our fees • Preliminary EH-TAP offered when submitting a Pre-App if relevant ‘constraints’ apply: • Fixed fee of £140 (ex. VAT) collected as an enhancement to main Pre-App fee • Advice provided may relate to one or more relevant potential impacts • EH-TAP advice incorporated within main Pre-App response

  10. Detailed EH-TAP: How to apply and our fees (1) • DetailedEH-TAP is available directly from Environmental Health (Public Protection): • Suited to developments where relevant technical matters are likely to be significant considerations and consequently require detailed assessment • Option A: Review of proposed sampling/monitoring methodology & provision of EH consultee opinion: £210 (ex. VAT) • Option B: Full appraisal of assessment report & provision of EH consultee comments: £280 (ex. VAT)

  11. Detailed EH-TAP: How to apply and our fees (2) • Option A and B: A £70 discount is applied for applicants taking advantage of both options • Option B includes full consultee comments with an ‘EH-TAP Declaration Form’: • Providing Declaration Form satisfactorily completed, EH-TAP consultee comments may be submitted with a subsequent full planning application • Formal consultation will not be necessary where no relevant changes have been made to scheme/assessment report

  12. Main benefits of EH-TAP (1) • Applicants provided with much greater confidence when submitting formal application • Access to expert consultee advice: help identify, understand, and seek to resolve relevant issues wherever possible • Receive full Environmental Health consultee comments in advance of formal submission (Detailed EH-TAP, option B) • Collaborative and open approach taken with developers/agents

  13. Main benefits of EH-TAP (2) • Reduced likelihood of requests for further information during formal consultation state – resubmissions etc. • Reduced risk that proposed development could cause or be affected by pollution – future complaints etc. • Services charged at cost: no profit margin or shareholders

  14. Questions and feedback? Thank you Paul Travis Tel: 01208 893150 James Langley Tel: 01726 223517

  15. PACE

  16. Accredited Agent Scheme • At present continuing unchanged • Two validation officers dedicated • Future delivery under consideration

  17. Policy update • Cornwall Local Plan and Neighbourhood Development Plans • Allocations Development Plan Document (DPD) • Chief Planning Officer guidance notes • Neighbourhood Planning Act 2017

  18. Allocations DPD

  19. Neighbourhood Planning in Cornwall

  20. Made Plans

  21. Successful at referendum

  22. Neighbourhood Planning Act 2017 • Weight to be given to neighbourhood plans • Notification of applications to neighbourhood planning bodies • Status of approved neighbourhood plans • Ability to modify neighbourhood plans and make changes to neighbourhood areas • Examiner required to ask stakeholders if they desire a meeting

  23. Requests • Complete the declaration on the application form relating to Member / employee interest. • Change of use applications submitted only as full applications. • Check plans before submitting.

  24. Agents’ Workshops • Annexes • Class Q • Future workshops?

  25. Questions?

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