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Statement Of Community Involvement

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Meeting: 11/09/2019 - Cabinet (Item 30)

30 Statement of Community Involvement PDF 211 KB

The Statement of Community Involvement (SCI) sets out how a local planning authority engages with its residents when preparing local plans and through the planning application process. A draft SCI is included (Appendix 1) that seeks to establish how the Council will engage residents in the planning system.

The proposals include provisions for plan-making and planning applications. In respect of planning applications, different options for notification have been assessed and Cabinet is asked to approve the recommendation for Option 3 and to note that further corporate ways of working shall help develop further digital channels of engagement for the future.

Cabinet is also asked to endorse the draft SCI proposals and agree its release for six-week consultation starting 7^th October 2019.

Additional documents:

Appendix 1 - Draft Statement of Community Involvement, item 30 PDF 859 KB

Decision:

RESOLVED that:-

(a) the draft Statement of Community Involvement at Appendix 1 to the report be approved and released for six-week consultation from 7^th October 2019;

(b) the recommendation (option 3) on how planning applications are to be publicised be approved; and

(c) any minor changes to the draft SCI needed prior to the consultation be delegated to the Director for Growth & Infrastructure in consultation with the Portfolio Holder for Strategic Planning; and

(d) post consultation a final SCI shall return to Cabinet for formal adoption later in the year.

Voting: Unanimous

REASON

To enable officers to progress the SCI for consultation.

Minutes:

The Portfolio Holder for Strategic Planning presented a report, a copy of which had been circulated to each Member and a copy of which appears as Appendix 'B' to these Minutes in the Minute Book.

Cabinet were asked to approve the Statement of Community Involvement for consultation in order for the Council to set out how it intends to engage residents in the planning system.

The Chairman of the Overview and Scrutiny Board reported that the Board, at its meeting on 9 September 2019 recommended that at recommendation ‘b’ of the Cabinet report, the Cabinet should agree Option 1 as set out in paragraph 11 of the report, and further to this recommended the following amendments to the Statement of Community Involvement;

- Paragraph 2.30 be amended to add the following words to the first sentence after the word will “…have the opportunity to…”

- Page 12 should be amended to remove Primary Care Trusts and replace with Clinical Commissioning Groups.

Cabinet discussed the desire to move to more digital methods of notification but expressed concern that the appropriate digital platforms weren’t yet available, and that this would need to be a transitional process and that currently it was still necessary to write to people.