RESOLVED:

A. That Cabinet adopted Merton’s Borough Character Study and Small Sites Toolkit as two supplementary planning documents to Merton’s Local Plan.

The Cabinet Member for Housing, Regeneration and the Climate Emergency presented the report which followed a Borough-wide characterisation study and would once adopted, help support the local plan and assist with assessing future planning applications.

The small sites toolkit set out urban design principles for small sites noting 90% of planning applications received over the past 15 years for new homes had been built on new sites.

The Cabinet Member thanked Future Merton for their work on the document and it was

RESOLVED:

A. That Cabinet adopted Merton’s Borough Character Study and Small Sites Toolkit as two supplementary planning documents to Merton’s Local Plan.