Issue - meetings

The Cabinet is requested to consider the agenda report and its appendix and to make the following resolutions:

(1)  That the Authority’s Monitoring Report 2015-2016 be published on Chichester District Council’s website.

(2)  That authority be delegated to the Head of Planning Services following consultation with the Cabinet Member for Planning Services to enable minor amendments to be made to the document prior to and following publication.

RESOLVED

(1)  That the Authority’s Monitoring report 2015-2016 be published on Chichester District Council’s website.

(2)  That authority be delegated to the Head of Planning Services following consultation with the Cabinet Member for Planning Services to enable minor amendments to be made to the document prior to and following publication.

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

The report was introduced by Mrs Taylor.

Mr Davidson and Mr Allgrove were in attendance for this item.

Mrs Taylor summarised sections 3 (background), 4 (outcomes) and 5 (proposal) of the report. With reference to section 5 and also the Annual Monitoring Report 2015-2016 (AMR) itself in the appendix pack (pages 19 to 114) she highlighted the headline facts and figures for: completed dwellings (including affordable housing); neighbourhood development plans progress; community infrastructure levy contributions; the economy; and infrastructure planning.

Mr Davidson and Mr Allgrove did not wish to add to Mrs Taylor’s presentation.

Mr Dignum remarked that Mrs Taylor had outlined very satisfactory, encouraging progress and he referred to the detailed suite of policies in the Chichester Local Plan: Key Policies 2014-2029 (CLP) and the importance of CDC currently having a five-year housing land supply. Mrs Keegan and Mrs Plant commended the AMR including the fact that CDC had exceeded the affordable housing target.

In reply to a question by Mrs Plant regarding the graph on page 65 of the appendix pack of the actual/projected housing completions against the CLP housing target 2012-2029, Mr Davidson said that there was inevitably an element of conjecture for much would depend on the state of the economy and the construction industry, yet the trend was moving in the right direction.   

Decision

At the conclusion of the debate the Cabinet voted on a show of hands unanimously in favour of the recommendation.

RESOLVED

(1)  That the Authority’s Monitoring report 2015-2016 be published on Chichester District Council’s website.

(2)  That authority be delegated to the Head of Planning Services following consultation with the Cabinet Member for Planning Services to enable minor amendments to be made to the document prior to and following publication.