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Cabinet Member for Planning

Minutes:

22.1           Councillor Grandon, the Chair of Council invited Councillor Arthey, Cabinet Member for Planning to introduce Paper BC/20/9.

 

Note: Councillors Plumb and Ayres left the meeting at 7:18 pm

 

22.2            Councillor Arthey introduced the report and asked that the wording ‘both Councils’ be replaced with ‘Babergh District Council’ throughout the recommendations the report.

 

22.3            Councillor Arthey MOVED Recommendations 3.1 and 3.2 in the report, which was SECONDED by Councillor Ward.

 

22.4            In response to Members’ questions, Councillor Arthey confirmed that the new proposal did not contain any zoning and that the proposal came from the Members Working Group.

 

NOTE: Councillor Lindsay left the meeting at 7:24 pm

 

22.5            Members debated the issues, including inflation of house prices in relation to earnings, the doubling of CIL income in some areas, the need for funding for infrastructure, that the impact on house prices was a question of demand and supply.

 

22.6            Councillor Arthey summed up the issues and advised Members that the work had been underpinned by a viability study, and he introduced Stuart Cook from Aspinall Verdi Property Regeneration Consultants, who had undertaken the viability study.

 

22.7            Mr Cook explained how the development cost was based around land value and how current sales and market values would accommodate CIL charges.

 

NOTE: Councillor Hinton left the meeting at 7:37 pm.

 

22.8            Councillor Arthey added that CIL charges were being charged up front of a development and would be based on land values.

 

22.9            Recommendations 3.1 and 3.2 with the amended wording were put to Members for voting.

 

By a unanimous vote

 

It was RESOLVED: -

 

1.1            That Babergh District Council approves the content of the report (and all Appendices) with a view to agreeing that this material be the subject of a formal consultation for a period of six weeks between the 12th November and the 24th December 2020. (This would be a separate consultation but run in parallel with the consultation exercise for the emerging Joint Local Plan).

1.2               That Babergh District Council agrees that all responses to the consultation relating to revisions to the rates of CIL charging will be considered, analysed by the Council’s Viability Consultants, and taken into account and fed into an Examination in public to be held by an Inspector.

1.3                

That Babergh District Council also agrees to fully consider the Inspectors report when the Examination in public is concluded together with any consequent Inspectors report issued with his/her findings to the Council. This would allow Babergh District Council to consider outcomes together with any revision and subsequent adoption of any new revised CIL charging rates for Babergh District Council together with an implementation date.

 

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