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Development Management Service Delivery

Meeting: 05/09/2017 - Cabinet (Item 403)

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The Cabinet is requested to consider the agenda report and to make the following resolution namely that:

 

Additions and adjustments to the team structure for the Development Management service be agreed as follows:

1)      One new Development Manager (Applications Team) post at a cost of £65,257.00 per annum initially to be funded from reserves and subsequently from the government’s planned increase in planning application fees.

2)      One new Planning Officer post wef. 1 April 2018 at a cost of £38,327.00 per annum and subject to the introduction of the government’s planned increase in planning fees and the council’s annual budget process.

3)      One Planning Assistant/Apprentice post wef. 1 April 2018 at an additional cost of £14,991.00 per annum and subject to the introduction of the government’s planned increase in planning application fees and the council’s annual budget process.

Additional documents:

Decision:

RESOLVED

 

That the following additions and adjustments to the team structure for the Development Management service be approved comprising:

(1)  One new Development Manager (Applications Team) post at a cost of £65,257.00 per annum initially to be funded from reserves and subsequently from the government’s planned increase in planning application fees.

 

(2)  One new Planning Officer post with effect from 1 April 2018 at a cost of £38,327.00 per annum subject to the introduction of the government’s planned increase in planning fees and Chichester District Council’s annual budget process.

 

(3)  One Planning Assistant/Apprentice post with effect from 1 April 2018 at an additional cost of £14,991.00 per annum subject to the introduction of the government’s planned increase in planning application fees and Chichester District Council’s annual budget process.

 

Minutes:

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

 

The report was presented by Mrs Taylor.

 

Mr Frost and Mr Whitty were in attendance for this item.

 

Following Mrs Taylor’s introduction Mr Whitty said that it was hoped that the 20% increase in planning fees which had been in abeyance since the general election earlier in the year would be implemented in due course.

 

The Cabinet expressed support for these proposals with regard to what was one of CDC’s key services.

 

Mr Frost and Mr Whitty answered questions with regard to staff recruitment, the availability of historic building advice and the restructuring of CDC’s Conservation and Design service, and the implications for funding the new posts if the proposed increase in planning fees was not implemented (section 8 of the agenda report). 

 

Mr Dignum pointed out that (a) the increase in planning fees could be deployed only in respect of the Development Management service and (b) all the quoted salary costs in para 3.1 of the agenda report included on-costs. 

 

The Cabinet noted that the word ‘and’ in the second line of each of paras 3.2 and 3.3 of the agenda report (the second and third recommendations) should be deleted as being superfluous.

 

Decision

 

The Cabinet voted unanimously on a show of hands in favour of making the resolutions set out below.

 

RESOLVED

 

That the following additions and adjustments to the team structure for the Development Management service be approved comprising:

(1)  One new Development Manager (Applications Team) post at a cost of £65,257.00 per annum initially to be funded from reserves and subsequently from the government’s planned increase in planning application fees.

 

(2)  One new Planning Officer post with effect from 1 April 2018 at a cost of £38,327.00 per annum subject to the introduction of the government’s planned increase in planning fees and Chichester District Council’s annual budget process.

 

(3)  One Planning Assistant/Apprentice post with effect from 1 April 2018 at an additional cost of £14,991.00 per annum subject to the introduction of the government’s planned increase in planning application fees and Chichester District Council’s annual budget process.

 


 

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