Decision Taken By: CABINET MEMBER FOR Planning and Transportation
Decision No: D060216MEM
Date: 23rd October 2006
Decision(s) and Reason(s)
Planning Delivery Grant 2007/8 and Planning & Housing Grant after 2007/8
Minutes
The report summarised, commented upon and suggested responses to two Government consultation papers dealing with funding streams based on performance in the Planning Service. These were the Planning Delivery Grant draft settlement criteria for 2007/8 and draft proposals for a new Planning and Housing Delivery Grant to be introduced for an undefined period from 2008/9 (subject to the Government spending review). As the closing date for comments in both cases had passed, a provisional response had been submitted, based on the content of the report.
Concerns were expressed about the blurring of the separation between the Council's housing ambitions and planning role; the difficulty of remedying fairly the natural imbalances of housing development between authorities; and the paper's encouragement of a bias towards housing rather than other types of development.
Following consideration by the Planning and Transportation Advisory Board, the Cabinet Member for Planning and Transportation resolved that the response to the consultation documents, in respect of general view and specific questions, be endorsed and the Director of Planning and Transportation make a further response conveying concerns raised at the meeting.
Reasons: As set out in the report to the Planning and Transportation Advisory Board of 23 October 2006 and indicated above.
Signed M Balfour (Cabinet Member for Planning and Transportation)
Signed Leader: M Worrall
Signed Chief Executive: D Hughes
Date of Publication: 27 October 2006
This decision will come into force and may then be implemented on the expiry of 5 working days after publication unless it is called in.