Issue - meetings

The Committee is asked to confirm as a true record the Minutes of the Meeting of the Committee held on 7 March 2019 (attached) and to authorise the Chairman to sign them.

The Minutes of the Meeting of the Licensing and Planning Policy Committee held on 7 March 2019 were agreed and signed by the Chairman as true record.

The Committee also received an update on the outstanding queries in the Minutes, the details of which will be recorded in the Minutes for this meeting.

The Minutes of the Meeting of the Licensing and Planning Policy Committee held on 7 March 2019 were agreed and signed by the Chairman as a true record.

The Committee also received an update on the outstanding queries in the Minutes, as follows:

·                 Page 32 Paragraph 4.26 - makes reference to new national policy guidance set out in the Revised NPPF Paragraph 63. 

·                 Page 36 AMR Table Estimated Affordable Housing completions by site – three points of clarification:

The development proposal located on Upper High Street was in error duplicated within this table.  The published version has corrected this mistake.

The agreed affordable housing provision on the Upper High Street development site is comprised of 6 on-site affordable units; comprising 2 homes for affordable rent and 4 for shared ownership in accordance with an Affordable Housing Plan. The applicants will be required to reach slab level of construction on 10 units within two years of planning permission having been granted, if not a (viability) review process will be triggered.

Address detail has been amended to correct spelling.

·                 Appendix A List of Housing Completions – for clarification, the entries relating to the NESCOT site are not duplications.  They refer to the completion of different housing typologies on the site during the four quarters of the reporting period.

·                 AMR Final paragraph – for clarity, windfall sites are an unreliable source of housing delivery.  Consequently, there is a higher level of risk in their inclusion within a five year housing land supply trajectory.  Their future contribution to housing land supply will primary be as a “top up source” – above and beyond the more reliable and quantifiable identified sources of supply.