Chichester District Council
Agenda item

Agenda item

Approval of the Draft Infrastructure Business Plan 2019-2024 for Consultation with the City, Town and Parish Councils and Key Infrastructure Delivery Commissioners

The Cabinet is requested to consider the agenda report and its four appendices in the agenda supplements* and to make the resolution set out below:

 

That the draft Infrastructure Business Plan 2019-24 (appendix 1 to the agenda report) be approved for consultation with the city, town and parish councils, neighbouring local authorities including the South Downs National Park Authority and key infrastructure delivery commissioners) for a period of six weeks from 8 October to 19 November 2018.

 

*[Note (1) The first appendix is in the second agenda supplement and is available for online viewing only but one hard copy will be placed in the Members Room at East Pallant House and (2) the second, third and fourth appendices are circulated in the main agenda supplement]

 

 

NOTE TO CHICHESTER DISTRICT COUNCIL MEMBERS

 

The draft Infrastructure Business Plan (IBP) for 2019-2020 was reported to the Development Plan and Infrastructure Panel on Thursday 13 September 2018.

 

The Cabinet at this meeting is being recommended to approve the draft IBP for stakeholder consultation during October and November 2018.

 

Since the draft IBP will not be considered by the Council before the consultation, Chichester District Council members are requested to raise any issues they wish to be considered in writing in advance of this Cabinet meeting.

 

The Leader of the Council will also allow members to raise any questions they may have at this Cabinet meeting.

 

The Council will be asked to approve the final IBP in the usual way in March 2019.

 

Decision:

RESOLVED

 

That the draft Infrastructure Business Plan 2019-24 (appendix 1 to the agenda report) be approved for consultation with the city, town and parish councils, neighbouring local authorities including the South Downs National Park Authority and key infrastructure delivery commissioners) for a period of six weeks from 8 October to 19 November 2018.

 

Minutes:

The Cabinet received and considered the agenda report and its second, third and fourth appendices in the agenda supplement. The first appendix was available for online viewing in the second agenda supplement although one hard copy had been deposited in the Members Room at East Pallant House.

 

This item was presented by Mrs Taylor.

 

Mrs Dower and Mr Allgrove were in attendance for this matter.

 

Mrs Taylor summarised the report. In endorsing the recommendation to the Cabinet, she summarised sections 4 and 5 of the report (nature and objective of the consultation and the subsequent CDC decision-making process). She also explained the purpose of the Draft Infrastructure Business Plan 2019-2024 (appendix 1 in the second agenda supplement) in terms of the long list of infrastructure projects, the funding sources and the management of the funding gap and the prioritisation methodology. She referred to the West Sussex County Council (WSCC) project requests, some of which had been submitted late, in paras 3.5 and 3.6.

 

It was noted that there was a typographical error in the fourth bullet point in para 3.5: the reference for the newly selected project A286 Birdham Road/Selsey Tram Roundabout junction improvement should be IBP 349 and not IBP 249.

 

Mrs Dower referred to appendix 3 on pages 11 and 12 of the agenda supplement and advised that project IBP/293 (local land drainage East Beach Sea Outfall) would be removed from the Draft CIL Spending Plan as it was now going to be funded from CDC reserves. Mrs Shepherd said that this change to the funding arrangements would need to be approved by the Cabinet at its next meeting and that the project would remain in the Draft CIL Spending Plan for consultation purposes.

 

Mrs Dower drew attention to the third bullet point in para 3.5: WSCC had deferred the phasing for the three-year project IBP/656 (sustainable transport corridor city centre to Portfield and improvements to sustainable facilities on Oving Road corridor). Mr Dignum expressed regret at the delay in implementing this very important project.

 

Mrs Dower, Mr Frost and Mrs Shepherd responded to members’ questions and comments on points of detail with respect to:

 

(a)  The change in the funding source for IBP/293 (local land drainage East Beach Sea Outfall) should not cause delay in implementation.

 

(b)  The putting back to 2020-2021 of IBP 349 (A286 Birdham Road/Selsey Tram Roundabout junction improvement) (fourth bullet point in para 3.5), whereas projects IBP/654 (area-wide parking management North-East Chichester), IBP/655 (area-wide parking management West Chichester) and IBP/665 (area-wide parking management Chichester city) were listed for 2019-2020, was a matter for WSCC to accord priority in its request for CIL funding. However, it should be noted that (i) in para 3.7 caveats had been entered against those three projects and (ii) after the consultation period had ended it was for CDC to determine the various funding requests in accordance with the CIL criteria.  

 

 

 

Decision

 

The Cabinet voted unanimously on a show of hands to make the resolution set out below.

 

RESOLVED

 

That the draft Infrastructure Business Plan 2019-24 (appendix 1 to the agenda report) be approved for consultation with the city, town and parish councils, neighbouring local authorities including the South Downs National Park Authority and key infrastructure delivery commissioners) for a period of six weeks from 8 October to 19 November 2018.

 

 

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