Agenda item

Report of the Strategic Director of Regeneration and Environment

Recommendations:-

1.    That Council be recommended to withdraw the current Statement of Community Involvement (2015).

2.    That Council be recommended to adopt the revised Statement of Community Involvement (2019).

Consideration was given to the report which detailed how the Statement of Community Involvement (SCI) set out how the Council involved local communities in planning for the future of the Borough, through the preparation of the Local Plan and other planning policy documents, and the determination of planning applications.

It was a legislative requirement that the Council had a Statement of Community Involvement for planning-related consultations and that there was a process to review it every five years.

The report, therefore, outlined the outcome of consultation on a draft revised Statement of Community Involvement. Under Article 3 of the Constitution, the SCI forms part of the policy framework.  As such, only a meeting of the Council could adopt a revised SCI. Cabinet approval was, therefore, sought to recommend to Council that the current Statement of Community Involvement be withdrawn and the revised document be adopted.

Resolved:-  (1)  That Council be recommended to withdraw the current Statement of Community Involvement (2015).

(2)  That Council be recommended to adopt the revised Statement of Community Involvement (2019).