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Infrastructure Business Plan - Consultation

Meeting: 20/09/2016 - Cabinet (Item 255)

255 Approval of the Infrastructure Business Plan 2017-2022 for Consultation with the City, Town and Parish Councils and Key Infrastructure Delivery Commissioners pdf icon PDF 175 KB

The Cabinet is requested to consider the agenda report and its appendix and to make the following recommendation to the Council namely that it approves the Infrastructure Business Plan 2017-2022 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 3 October to 14 November 2016.

 

[Note The appendix (pages 71 to 130) to the report (pages 67 to 70) has itself seven appendices A to G which have not been printed with these agenda papers but are available electronically on the relevant committee papers page on Chichester District Council’s website and as a hard copy in the Members Room at East Pallant House]

Additional documents:

Decision:

RECOMMENDED TO THE COUNCIL

 

That the Council approves the Infrastructure Business Plan 2017-2022 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 3 October to 14 November 2016.

Minutes:

[Note Mr Finch arrived in the meeting at 10:03 during the course of Mrs Taylor’s introductory remarks]

 

The Cabinet considered the agenda report and its appendix (copies attached to the official minutes).

 

The report was presented by Mrs Taylor.

 

Mr Allgrove, Mrs Dower and Mr Frost were in attendance.

 

Mrs Taylor explained the purpose of the Infrastructure Business Plan (IBP) in terms of establishing which strategic or local infrastructure projects should be prioritised for funding via the Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL) (the CIL Charging Schedule came into effect on 1 February 2016). The IBP also identified which projects would be funded from section 106 or section 178 agreements or other sources in order to deliver the growth identified in the Chichester Local Plan: Key Policies 2014-2029, particularly during 2017-2022. The IBP was a living document which would undergo an annual review.  CDC placed great emphasis on consultation, hence the workshops in late April 2016 (section 8 of the report) and the Infrastructure Joint Member Liaison Group (JIMLG) (consisting of members and officers from both CDC and West Sussex County Council (WSCC)) which met on 2 September 2016. She referred specifically to the long list of short-term projects listed in table 3 in section 5 of the appended IBP (pages 101 to 110 of the agenda report) and the projects shortlisted from this, shown in table 11 (page 124). The latter had been considered by the IJMLG at the start of this month when it was agreed that the proposals for Smarter Choices, primary school provision and a medical centre at the West of Chichester strategic development location site should be subjected to further detailed evaluation. Prioritisation of infrastructure proposals was of critical importance given the projected CIL funding shortfall for the short term period 2016-2021 of £2,503,870. The course of the IBP after the six-week consultation period was set out in section 4.3 of the report. 

 

Mr Dignum referred to the recent IJMLG meeting, which he had chaired, and confirmed that the CDC members had emphasised the need for evidence to be presented to its next meeting on 8 December 2016 to demonstrate (a) the cost of new primary school places sought by WSCC and (b) how WSCC’s Smarter Choices measures would yield results compared with their preference for hard infrastructure measures such as segregated cycleways.   

 

Mrs Dower did not wish to add to Mrs Taylor’s presentation.

 

There were no questions or comments by members of the Cabinet.

 

Decision

 

The Cabinet voted unanimously by a show of hands in favour of the recommendation in para 2.1 of the report.   

 

RECOMMENDED TO THE COUNCIL

 

That the Council approves the Infrastructure Business Plan 2017-2022 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 3 October to 14 November 2016.


 

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