Please reply to:

 

 

Contact:

Christeen Abee

 

Service:

Committee Services

 

Direct Line:

01784 446224

 

E-mail:

c.abee@spelthorne.gov.uk

 

Date:

09 June 2025

 

 

Notice of meeting

 

 

Environment and Sustainability Committee

 

 

Date:

 

Tuesday, 17 June 2025

Time:

 

7.00 pm

Place:

 

Council Chamber, Council Offices, Knowle Green, Staines-upon-Thames TW18 1XB

 

To the members of the Environment and Sustainability Committee

 

Councillors:

 

M. Beecher (Chair)

K.M. Grant (Vice-Chair)

S.N. Beatty

S. Bhadye

M. Bing Dong

T. Burrell

 

J.P. Caplin

D.C. Clarke

S.M. Doran

N. Islam

A. Mathur

J.R. Sexton

 

J.A. Turner

H.R.D. Williams

P.N. Woodward

M. Buck

 

 

Substitute Members: Councillors

M. Arnold, C. Bateson, H.S. Boparai, A. Gale and R.V. Geach

 

Councillors are reminded that the Gifts and Hospitality Declaration book will be available outside the meeting room for you to record any gifts or hospitality offered to you since the last Committee meeting.


 

Agenda

 

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1.  

Apologies and Substitutes

 

 

 

To receive any apologies for absence and notification of substitutions.

 

 

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2.  

Minutes

 

5 - 8

 

To confirm as a correct record the minutes of the Environment and Sustainability Committee meeting held on 18 March 2025.

 

 

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<AI3>

3.  

Disclosures of Interest

 

 

 

To receive any disclosures of interest from councillors in accordance with the Council’s Code of Conduct for members.

 

 

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4.  

Questions from members of the Public

 

 

 

The Chair, or their nominee, to answer any questions raised by members of the public in accordance with Standing Order 40.

 

At the time of publication of this agenda no questions were received.

 

 

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5.  

Approval to Conduct Statutory Consultation on Spelthorne Design Code

 

9 - 252

 

Committee is asked to agree that the Publication Version of the Spelthorne Design Code be published for a 6-week public consultation under Regulation 12 of the Town and Country Planning (Local Planning) Regulations 2012.

 

 

</AI5>

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6.  

Housing Delivery Test Action Plan 2024

 

253 - 314

 

Committee is asked to:

1.    Approve the Hosuing Delivery Test Action Plan 2024; and

2.    Agree publication of the Housing Delivery Test Action Plan 2024 on the Council’s website.

 

 

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7.  

Grey Belt Assessment Advice Note

 

315 - 344

 

Committee is asked to accept and adopt the Grey Belt advice note for Development Management officers and the Planning Committee, to assist and guide decision making on relevant sites and applications.

 

 

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8.  

Project Green Horizon

 

345 - 358

 

Committee is asked to support the initiation of the Project Green Horizon Programme and approve the initiation/undertaking of the first three projects under the programme

 

 

</AI8>

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9.  

Green Initiatives Fund Bid - Hydromx Pilot Project

 

359 - 386

 

Committee is asked to:

1.    Approve the Hydromx Pilot Project; and

2.    Approve as Revenue Expenditure the spend of £10,100 from the Green Initiatives Fund (GIF).

 

 

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10.  

Updates from Task and Finish and/or Working Groups

 

387 - 388

 

To receive an update on the following task and finish and/or working groups:

 

Community Infrastructure Levy Task Groups – written update (attached)

 

Climate Change Working Group – verbal update

 

Spelthorne Design Code Task Group – verbal update

 

 

</AI10>

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11.  

Forward Plan

 

389 - 392

 

A copy of the Environment & Sustainability Committee Forward Plan is attached.

 

 

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