Purpose

The Strategic Director for Place, in
consultation with the Portfolio Holder for City Development, agreed
minor changes to the Regulation 19 Publication version of the
Exeter Plan before it is published – as per recommendation
2.2 under agenda item 14 regarding the Publication of the Exeter
Plan which was discussed at the Executive meeting on 3 December
2024. 
 
Summary of minor changes attached.
To provide further information, clarity and
minor edits to the Publication Draft of the Exeter Plan.

Content

The
Strategic Director for Place, in consultation with the Portfolio
Holder for City Development, agreed minor changes to the Regulation
19 Publication version of the Exeter Plan before it is published
– as per recommendation 2.2 under agenda item 14 regarding
the Publication of the Exeter Plan which was discussed at the
Executive meeting on 3 December 2024. 
 
Was an
Equality Impact Assessment carried out and what were the
findings:
 
No.
Changes to the Publication Draft of the Exeter Plan are minor and
the previous draft was subject to an EQIA which was undertaken and
made available with the Executive papers for the 3 December
meeting. 
 
 
Exeter Plan:
 
List of edits made to the
Publication Exeter Plan Draft before publication
 
General revisions

 

·     
Grammar

·     
Spelling

·     
Formatting

·     
Revisions to the contents page

·     
Forewords added

 

 
More
detailed revisions in order (list is not exhaustive and does not
cover every individual word change)
 

·     
Policy CC5: Was previously referred to as ‘C5’. An
additional C to represent climate
change has been added.
 

·     
Paragraph 6.17: Added additional for clarity regarding affordable
housing:

 

‘The LHNA indicates
that one half of the need for affordable housing comes from
households able to afford affordable home ownership products (such
as First Homes and shared ownership) and the other half comes from
households only able to afford affordable housing for rent
(affordable rent or social rent). Of the half of households
requiring affordable rental products, the majority cannot afford
affordable rent without housing benefit support.  Policy H4 therefore prioritises the delivery of
homes for social rent above affordable rent, although allows for
the provision of affordable rent where it is demonstrated necessary
to ensure development viability’.

 

·        
Policy D3: ‘or’ changed
to ‘and’ at the end of
criterion d, on the basis that criteria are a list of all the
considerations that must be made.

 

·     
Paragraph 15.14: For clarity, amended to ‘A viability
appraisal accompanies the Exeter Plan to ensure demonstrate that this is the case.’

 

·     
Paragraph 15.18: ‘Pubs’
also added to the list of community facilities.

 

·     
Paragraph 15.19: ‘Community’ added immediately before
‘facilities’.
 

·     
Paragraph 5.20: Slightly revised text for clarity.
‘…which demonstrates that the existing facility is no
longer viable and that the sale
of the business has been marketed for sale for a period of at least twelve months in advance of the
submission of the planning application.

 

·     
Paragraph 15.22: Slightly amended text for clarity. ‘Smaller
facilities which provide local services will usually be best
located in, or close to, the
neighbourhood district
and local centres.”

 

·     
Paragraph 15.25: Additional text add to provide greater information
regarding education infrastructure needs. ‘A second additional primary school is also
likely to be required during the plan period. The City Council will
work with Devon County Council on delivering this as
appropriate’. 

 

·     
Policy IF3: Paragraph removed to improve clarity over protection of
some community facilities. ‘Development proposals for change of use from a
business that serves a community function may be supported if the
use is no longer viable and there is no reasonable prospect of the
site being used for a community use in the
future’.
 

·     
Paragraph 15.35: Final sentence deleted to better development
quality on the strategic mixed use brownfield sites.
This is especially important given that
the strategic mixed use brownfield developments allocated in this
Plan will be higher density which could have an impact on the
amount of private outdoor space.

 

·     
Paragraph 15.36: For clarity. Text amended to ‘An additional
allotment site is identified on the
Policies Map on land off Shillingford Road on the
edge of in Alphington,
in accordance with the South West
Exeter Development Framework Supplementary
Planning Document’.
 

·     
IF4 – Minor revisions to spelling and grammar.
 

·     
Page 136: Additional text added to provide clarity over the
labelling of the site allocations map: ‘Reference numbers from policy H2 are in brackets’.
 

·     
Paragraph 16.14: Additional sentence added for clarity regarding
the number of consented homes (subject to s106) at Water Lane:
‘These homes are not included in the
housing capacity specified in policies SBA1 and
H2’.

 

·     
Paragraph 16.35: Minor additional text added to clarify which
potential community facilities may be considered appropriate for
cross-boundary working at Topsham: ‘For example, the
allocation’s primary school could potentially provide places for children in the
Exeter administrative area if considered
appropriate and/or a GP surgery could provide for Exeter
patients’.
 

·     
Paragraph 16.36. Additional sentence added regarding discussions
with infrastructure providers relating to Topsham: ‘Discussions with infrastructure providers would
also be required’.
 

·     
Monitoring and implementation section: Policy H7 re custom and
self-build housing. Additional reference to ‘serviced’ plots to align with the
policy.
 

·     
Monitoring and implementation section: Policy STC5: Minor revisions
to the terminology of the target, to reference ‘car-free’ development in place of
‘no-car’ development. 
 

·     
Monitoring and implementation section: Policy HH1: Target of number
of applications permitted contrary to Historic England advice
revised from ‘zero’ to ‘no applications permitted contrary to Historic England
advice’. For consistency in terminology with other
indicators.