Meeting documents

The Cabinet received a report regarding the Statement of Community Involvement (SCI). Members were aware that the Government signalled its intent to legislate to require local plans to be regularly reviewed in last year’s White Paper ‘Fixing our broken housing market’. The purpose of this report was to explain the implications of the Government’s intentions connected with the above for statements of community involvement and implications for the Council’s SCI.

The report also explained that the SCI was not part of the existing delegation by Cabinet to the Joint Committee on issues relating to the Local Plan. As such the report recommended that powers related to the SCI and other joint planning policy related matters be added to the delegated powers to Joint Committee as part of Shared Service and decision making arrangements.

RESOLVED that

1)      the production of a joint Statement of Community Involvement as part of the Chiltern and South Bucks Planning and Economic Development Shared Service arrangements be agreed;

2)      authority be delegated to the Director of Services (in the absence of a permanent Head of Planning and Economic Development), in agreement with the Cabinet Member for Planning and Economic Development to prepare and publish a joint Statement of Community Involvement for Chiltern and South Bucks District Councils based on the issues set out in the report; and                                                                                                                                                                

3)      the Local Development Scheme be amended by the insertion of a timetable specifically covering the update and review of the Statement of Community Involvement and that authority be delegated to the Director of Services, in the absence of a permanent Head of Planning and Economic Development, to determine and amend as necessary the timetable.

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