Issue - meetings

To seek authority for officers to not provide Strategic Suitable Alternative Natural Green (SANG) capacity for developments which collectively undermine the delivery of the Council’s Thames Basin Heaths Special Protection Area avoidance and mitigation strategy and threaten the delivery of plan-led development set out in the Council’s Development Plan.

The Executive considered a supplementary tabled paper which raised an objection to the recommendations proposed in the Director of Environment, Culture & Communities report, together with the officer response to this objection.

RESOLVED that;

i)              following careful assessment officers be authorised not to provide capacity in Strategic Suitable Alternative Natural Greenspaces (SANGs) for large Prior Approval schemes or other unplanned large applications located beyond the defined settlements in Binfield, Bracknell, Warfield and Winkfield which are considered to undermine the Council’s Thames Basin Heaths Special Protection Area Avoidance and Mitigation Strategy.

ii)             these forms of development be directed to known private Bespoke SANGs where capacity may exist.