Report of the Director of Environment and Planning

The subject of the decision:

The Director of Environment and Planning submitted a report seeking approval to amend the Council’s Responsibility for Council Functions and the Scheme of Officer Delegation within the Constitution in response to regulations requiring local authorities to prepare and maintain registers of brownfield land suitable for residential development.

Alternative options considered:

None.

The reason for the decision:

To comply with the Town and Country Planning (Brownfield Land Register) Regulations and Town and Country Planning (Permission in Principle) Orders 2017.

THE DECISION:

That the Committee recommends to Council that:-

(1)     it be noted that Council will consult on and publish Part 1 of the Brownfield Land Register by 31 December 2017;

(2)     in consequence of (1) above, Council amends the Responsibility for Council Functions and the Scheme of Officer Delegation within the Constitution to:

(i)         authorise the Executive Director to place sites that meet the relevant statutory criteria and have planning permission for housing, or are allocated for housing in the development plan on Part 1 of the Brownfield Land Register;

(ii)        authorise the Planning Committee to place sites that meet the relevant statutory criteria but do not have planning permission for housing or are not allocated for housing in the development plan on Part 1 of the Brownfield Land Register;

(iii)       authorise the Executive Director to place any site with Permission in Principle on Part 2 of the Brownfield Land Register; and

(iv)      authorise the Executive Director to remove sites that are considered to no longer meet the relevant statutory criteria or on expiry of Permission in Principle from the Brownfield Land Register.

(3)     authority be given to the Director of Law and Governance to make any further consequential amendments to the Constitution.