Agenda

The Chair will make any specific announcements for this meeting and advise of any late items which due to special circumstances will be given urgent consideration under Late Items.

The Cabinet is requested to approve as a correct record the minutes of its meeting on Tuesday 16 April 2024.

Members are requested to make any declarations of disclosable pecuniary, personal and/or prejudicial interests they might have in respect of matters on the agenda for this meeting.

In accordance with Chichester District Council’s scheme for public question time the Cabinet will receive any questions which have been submitted by members of the public in writing by noon two working days before the meeting. Each questioner will be given up to three minutes to ask their question. The total time allocated for public question time is 15 minutes subject to the Chair’s discretion to extend that period.

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

1.    That Cabinet recommends to Council that funding for the Arun and Rother Rivers Trust’s (ARRT) Chalk Stream Resilience project of £180,000 (£60,000 per year for three years) is allocated from General Fund Reserves.

2.    That the Director of Planning and Environment is authorised to enter into a Memorandum of Agreement with ARRT to secure the funding and governance arrangements.

3.    That approval of the release of the allocated funding for years 2 and 3 is delegated to the Director of Planning and Environment, following consultation with the Cabinet Member for Environmental Strategy, following an annual review of the project’s performance.

The Cabinet is requested to consider the report and the appendix and make the following recommendations to Council:

1.    That Cabinet recommend to Council the introduction of a policy for determining applications to Homes England seeking a waiver in designated protected areas (dpa), as attached at appendix 1.

2.    That Cabinet recommend to Council that delegated authority be granted to the Divisional Manager for Housing, Revenues and Benefits to make minor changes to the policy and as set out in section 5 of the policy.

Exempt Part II Item 12 (see below).

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

That Cabinet approves the draft A27 Chichester Bypass Mitigation Supplementary Planning Document (SPD) (May 2024) for public consultation for a period of six weeks to commence prior to 31 May 2024.

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

That Cabinet approves the release of £66,000 from reserves to fund unauthorised vehicle incursion deterrent measures at both Northgate and Cattle Market car parks.

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

1.    That Cabinet note the Custom and Self-Build health check and the subsequent workstream activity undertaken over the past year.

2.    That Cabinet approve the revision of the eligibility criteria for entrance onto Part 1 of the Custom and Self Build Register as set out in section 5 of the report.

3.    That Cabinet recommend further publicising of the CSB Register including through the hosting of an open event for those with an interest.

a)    Items added to the agenda papers and made available for public inspection

b)    Items which the Chair has agreed should be taken as matters of urgency by reason of special circumstances to be reported at the meeting

The Cabinet is asked to consider in respect of agenda item 12 whether the public including the press should be excluded from the meeting on the following ground of exemption in Schedule 12A to the Local Government Act 1972 namely Paragraph 3 (Information relating to the financial or business affairs of any particular person (including the authority holding that information)) and because, in all the circumstances of the case, the public interest in maintaining the exemption of that information outweighs the public interest in disclosing the information.

[Note The report and its appendices within this part of the agenda are attached for members of the Council and relevant only (printed on salmon paper)]

The Cabinet is requested to consider the exempt report and its exempt appendices and make the resolution as set out in section 2.1 of the report.