Supplementary Planning Documents (SPDs) are produced to provide guidance on the implementation of Local Plan policies to provide clarity for all parties in the planning process.
The SPD will provide clear guidance to businesses and the local community how the Local Planning authority will assess planning applications for new hot food takeaways in partnership with Public Health and Environmental Health which is not currently set out in local planning policy.
The Hot Food Takeaway SPD provides clear guidance about how the council will implement Local Plan policies LP16 and LP47 and how decisions will be made which balance the need to consider the vitality and viability of centres whilst promoting healthy, active and safe lifestyles.
The SPD will embed objectives from the Council Plan, the Kirklees Health and Wellbeing Plan 2018-2023 and the Healthy Weight Declaration and provide the context around the whole systems approach to support healthy environments and reduce obesityand the role that the SPD can play alongside other initiatives to address the obesogenic environment.
The SPD explains the overall approach to the location of new hot food takeaway development across Kirklees, including:
· Using local health intelligence to inform decision making via a health toolkit;
· Recognising the role of hot food takeaways in the vitality and viability of town and other centres;
· The over concentration and appropriate level of clustering of hot food takeaways in centres;
· Limiting opening hours within 400m of primary and secondary schools; and
· Limiting the impacts of takeaways in relation to environmental health, highways issues and general residential amenity.
· Provides signposts to other health initiatives and guidance.
The SPD has been produced in collaboration with Public Health, Environmental Health, Waste Services, Planning Development Management, Highways Development Management, Designing Out Crime Officer and Planning Policy. It has been subject to public consultation with a wide range of consultees including: statutory consultees, Kirklees schools, children’s groups, health related organisations, Kirklees Employee Networks, Community Hubs, Local groups and businesses, 5% random sample of Kirklees takeaways, fast food related organisations, multi-nationals and Kirklees GP surgeries and the document amended in light of the comments received.
Once adopted, the SPD would become a material consideration in determining planning applications but are not part of the development plan.
The Hot Food Takeaway SPD will be used by the council to help reach decisions on whether to approve or refuse planning applications in accordance with the Local Plan. Details of the draft documents and consultation can be found at:
Hot food takeaway Supplementary Planning Document Consultation | Kirklees Council
Decision type: Key
Reason Key: Affects 2 or more wards;
Decision status: Recommendations Approved
Wards affected: (All Wards);
Notice of proposed decision first published: 27/07/2022
Decision due: 20 Sep 2022 by Cabinet
Lead member: Councillor Musarrat Khan musarrat.khan@kirklees.gov.uk, Councillor Graham Turner, Cabinet Member - Finance and Regeneration Graham.Turner@Kirklees.gov.uk
Lead director: Strategic Director for Growth and Regeneration
Department: Environment
Contact: Hannah Morrison.
Consultation process
The SPD has been prepared in accordance with the relevant legal regulations and have been subject to 6 weeks of public consultation which took place from Tuesday 9th November to Tuesday 21st December 2021. This was undertaken in accordance with the Kirklees Statement of Community Involvement. Statutory consultees were also consulted as required by legal regulations.
This has resulted in appropriate changes to the document, particularly to provide a robust evidence base, greater clarity with respect to the operations/types of premise that the SPD covers, design, implementation of the SPD and links to other sources of advice and guidance. The consultation comments and changes proposed are set out in the Consultation Statement.
Consultees
· David Shepherd (Strategic Director Growth & Regeneration)
· Rachel Spencer-Henshall (Strategic Director Corporate Strategy)
· Edward Highfield (Service Director Skills & Regeneration)
· Mathias Franklin (Head of Planning and Development)
· Steven Wright (Planning Policy and Strategy Group Leader)
· Member briefing with Cllr Turner (Portfolio Holder Regeneration)
· Member briefing with Cllr Musarrat Khan (Portfolio Holder Health & Social Care)
· Member briefing with Cllr Eric Firth (Portfolio Holder Town Centres/Transport)
· Member briefings with Cllr Lukic and Cllr Lawson
Members/Officers Involved: Members: Cllr Peter McBride (in previous role as Portfolio Holder for Regeneration) Cllr Graham Turner (Portfolio Holder Regeneration) Cllr Musarrat Khan (Portfolio Holder Health and Social Care) Cllr Eric Firth (Portfolio Holder Town Centres/Transport) Officers: David Shepherd (Strategic Director Growth and Regeneration) Edward Highfield (Service Director Growth and Regeneration) Rachel Spencer-Henshall (Strategic Director Corporate Strategy) Emily Parry-Harries (Head of Public Health) Lucy Wearmouth (Acting Head of Improving Population Health) Mathias Franklin (Head of Planning and Development) Steven Wright (Planning Policy and Strategy Group Leader) Specialist officers from Planning, Public Health, Environmental Health and Waste Services