Purpose

To approve the attached Consultation Draft
Shopfront Supplementary Planning Document (SPD) for the purposes of
public consultation.

Decision

It is recommended that the Portfolio Holder
approves the attached Consultation Draft Shopfront Supplementary
Planning Document (SPD) for the purposes of public
consultation.

Reasons for the decision

The reasons for the recommendation are:
a)To provide a clear document which sets out design requirements
for shopfront designs.
b)To comply with statutory requirements and to publicise the
consultation draft document.

Alternative options considered

An alternative option would be to approve the
draft SPD as informal planning guidance which could be undertaken
without consultation. However, this would result in it having less
weight in terms of decision making.
Another alternative option would be to not proceed with adopting
the new Shopfront SPD. This would mean relying on existing local
plan policies which refer to design in more general terms and so
are less able to guide shopfront design.