Agenda and minutes

To receive and record any apologies for absence.

Apologies were received from Councillors Bains and Turner.

To receive and record any declarations of interest.

There were no declarations of interest from any of the members present.

To consider the recommendations as set out in the attached report.

Councillor Guest presented a report and recommendation to Cabinet seeking approval for the consultation on the Draft Havant Borough Local Plan 2036.

The Chairman highlighted at the outset that, at the present time, the Cabinet was considering only whether to proceed to a public consultation to engage with local residents, businesses and developers about what should be in the Local Plan.  The Cabinet were not, at this stage considering or voting on the content of the Draft Local Plan at this meeting; this would brought back to for Cabinet and full Council approval in due course when the consultations were complete and all relevant evidence had been collated.

Cabinet then received the following Deputations (Deputations can be viewed on the Council’s website):

Mr D Pattenden, Langstone Residents’ Association

Mr D Parham, Save Our Island

Mr M Hawthorne, WYG Planning Consultants

Mr J Graham, Independent Resident

Following questions and debate on this item, it was

RESOLVED that Cabinet

(1)          notes the findings of the Local Plan evidence base, including the Draft Infrastructure Delivery Plan and statutory assessments (available at www.havant.gov.uk/localplan/evidence-base);

(2)          agrees for publication the Transport Assessment and Hayling Island Highway and Transport Infrastructure Assessment when complete and use the findings as a material consideration in the determination of planning applications;

(3)          continues to make representations through the Council Leader, Cabinet Lead for Planning and Place-Making and local MPs to the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, the Housing and Planning Minster, Hampshire County Council and the Solent LEP regarding the urgent need for infrastructure delivery alongside the building of new homes;

(4)          makes representations through the Council Leader, the Cabinet Lead for Planning and Place-Making and local MPs to the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government and the Housing and Planning Minister to forward fund infrastructure provision wherever possible using five year housing land supply data which Local Planning Authorities are required to produce;

(5)          notes the Borough’s five year housing land supply position (available at  www.havant.gov.uk/localplan/evidence-base );

(6)          approves the public consultation of the Draft Havant Borough Local Plan 2036;

(7)          approves the Local Development Scheme (December 2017) for publication; and

(8)          requests the Local Plan Panel to consider the responses to the public consultation and make recommendations to Cabinet on any proposed changes the Pre-Submission Havant Borough Local Plan 2036; and

(9)          delegates authority to the Head of Planning, in consultation with the Cabinet Lead for Planning and Place-Making to make any necessary amendments to the documents listed above. These shall be limited to the inclusion of a foreword contents page and page numbers, factual updates, correction of minor errors, grammatical, typographical, formatting and graphic design changes and shall not change the meaning of the material.

To consider the recommendations as set out in the attached report.

Councillor Guest presented a report and recommendation to Cabinet seeking approval to carry out a public consultation on the Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL) Preliminary Draft Charging Schedule as required by the CIL Regulations.

RESOLVED that Cabinet

(1)  notes the findings of the Draft Infrastructure Delivery Plan, the Whole Plan Viability Assessment and Viability Appraisal for the Southleigh Strategic Site Masterplan (available at www.havant.gov.uk/evidencebase );

(2)  approves the public consultation on the Preliminary Draft Charging Schedule;

(3)  requests the Local Plan Panel to consider the responses to the public consultation and make recommendations to Cabinet on any proposed changes to the Draft CIL Charging Schedule; and

(4)   delegates authority to the Head of Planning, in consultation with the Cabinet Lead for Planning and Place-Making to make any necessary amendments to the Preliminary Draft Charging Schedule. These shall be limited to factual updates, correction of minor errors, grammatical, typographical, formatting and graphic design changes and shall not change the meaning of the material.