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REPORT OF THE SERVICE DIRECTOR – REGULATORY

To consider the draft Developer Contributions SPD and the feasibility of introducing a Community Infrastructure Levy for residential sites of 10 units or less.

RESOLVED:

(1)     That the draft Developer Contributions SPD, attached as Appendix A to this report, be endorsed and approved for a six-week public consultation;

(3)     That Officers be instructed to conduct a review to consider the feasibility of introducing a Community Infrastructure Levy for residential sites.

REASONS FOR DECISIONS:

(1)     To allow the Developer Contributions SPD to be progressed so that it may be

(i)      adopted at the same time as, or shortly after, any future decision to adopt the new Local Plan and

(ii)      taken into account in relevant planning decisions.

(2)     To determine whether there is scope to introduce a levy for small sites which are not normally subject to requests for contributions but which, collectively, result in additional burdens upon local infrastructure.

Audio recording – Session1 – 10 minutes 27 seconds

The Executive Member for Planning and Transport presented the report entitled Draft Developer Contributions SPD together with the following appendix:

·                Appendix A - Draft Developer Contributions SPD.

Councillor David Levett, Chair of the Overview and Scrutiny Committee presented the referral from the meeting held on 21 January 2020 regarding the Draft Developer Contributions SPD.

He advised that the Committee recommended to Cabinet that:

(1)       That the draft Developer Contributions SPD, attached as Appendix A to this report, be endorsed and approved for a six-week public consultation;

(2)       That Officers be instructed to conduct a review a to consider the feasibility of introducing a Community Infrastructure Levy for residential sites of 10 units or less.

The Executive Member for Planning and Transport proposed that the words “of ten units or less” be removed from recommendation 2.2.

RESOLVED:

(1)     That the draft Developer Contributions SPD, attached as Appendix A to this report, be endorsed and approved for a six-week public consultation;

(3)     That Officers be instructed to conduct a review to consider the feasibility of introducing a Community Infrastructure Levy for residential sites.

REASONS FOR DECISIONS:

(1)     To allow the Developer Contributions SPD to be progressed so that it may be

(i)      adopted at the same time as, or shortly after, any future decision to adopt the new Local Plan and

(ii)      taken into account in relevant planning decisions.

(2)     To determine whether there is scope to introduce a levy for small sites which are not normally subject to requests for contributions but which, collectively, result in additional burdens upon local infrastructure.