New guidelines to speed up planning application process in Rotherham

Members of the public will be invited to share their views on the council's adoption of five supplementary planning documents, which set out guidelines for determining planning applications.

If the guidelines are adopted, the information within will be taken into account when planning applications are being decided.

There are currently five supplementary planning documents, which consider affordable housing, development viability, natural environment, transport assessments, travel plans and parking standards, and safeguarding community facilities.

The documents will provide guidance to applicants, helping speed up the planning process by minimising amendments or negotiations which often follow the submission of planning applications.

At a meeting of Rotherham's cabinet, councillors voted unanimously to take the documents to public consultation to collect resident's views during a four week period later in the year.

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