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Item PE 17/17 referred from Planning and Transportation Advisory Board minutes of 5 December 2017

(Item PE 17/17 referred from Planning and Transportation Advisory Board minutes of 5 December 2017)

Consideration of recommendations to the Cabinet from the Planning and Transportation Advisory Board of 5 December 2017

The Cabinet resolved that:

The recommendations of the Planning and Transportation Advisory Board be approved as follows:

(1)             the updated pre-application charging regime for planning, set out at Annex 1 to the report, be approved; and

(2)             the Director of Planning, Housing and Environmental Health be given delegated authority to set the detailed building control application fee scales within a general guide of a 3% increase.

Decision Notice D180011CAB

Consideration was given to the report of the Director of Planning, Housing and Environmental Health regarding proposed changes to the Pre-application Planning Advice Charging Regime and an overall approach to Building Control Fees.  It was noted that detailed monitoring between 1 April and 1 November 2017 indicated that no changes to the Pre-application Protocol were necessary but the fees should be adjusted in order to recover costs of providing advice, as set out at Annex 1 to the report.

Reference was made to the partnership arrangement with Sevenoaks District Council for provision of building control services, overseen by a Management Board, and to an approach aiming at a fee increase of approximately 3% across the range of application types.  Since further detailed work was required to set the precise fee scales, it was suggested that the Director of Planning, Housing and Environmental Health be authorised to agree them within the overall context in liaison with Sevenoaks through the Management Board.

RECOMMENDED:  That

(1)             the updated pre-application charging regime for planning, set out at Annex 1 to the report, be approved; and

(2)             the Director of Planning, Housing and Environmental Health be given delegated authority to set the detailed building control application fee scales within a general guide of a 3% increase.

*Referred to Cabinet