Issue - meetings

The Cabinet Member for Regeneration and Economic Development introduced a report on a draft Supplementary Planning Document (SPD) that provided supplementary planning guidance to developers, planning officers and residents as to how the Council intended to seek developer contributions, through planning obligations, to support the infrastructure required to deliver the Council’s wider Local Plan ambitions for housing and employment growth in the Borough.

The Cabinet Member explained that the two main mechanisms for collecting developer contributions under the SPD would be via the Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL) and Section 106 (S106) agreements under the Town and Country Planning Act 1990.  It was noted, however, that the Government’s new Levelling Up Bill outlined proposed changes to the current CIL and S106 regime and, therefore, the draft SPD would be kept under review.  The Cabinet Member also referred to the priority areas listed in the draft SPD that would qualify for S106 funding and encouraged Cabinet colleagues to review the listing to ensure that their portfolio priorities were fully covered.

Cabinet resolved to:

(i)  Approve the Draft Planning Obligations Supplementary Planning Document, as set out at Appendix A to the report, for public consultation; and

(ii)  Delegate authority to the Strategic Director, Inclusive Growth, in consultation with the Cabinet Member for Regeneration and Economic Development and the Chief Legal Officer, to make any appropriate amendments to the document following public consultation, prior to its submission to the Assembly for formal adoption.