Decisions

Cabinet received a report on the Vale of Aylesbury Local Plan (VALP).  A supplementary report has also been issued to amend a minor error regarding a site area and to recommend that Council be asked to delegate authority to the Cabinet Member for Planning and Regeneration, in consultation with the Service Director for Planning and Environment, to make further minor amendments that would not alter the implementation of the plan.

Following it’s submission in 2018, the appointed Inspector had completed his Examination of the plan and prepared his binding report setting out how the VALP should be modified in order to be sound. To fully enact the plan, as modified to accord with the Inspector’s report, it had to be adopted by the Council.  If the plan was not adopted, it would need to be withdrawn leaving the North and Central areas of the council without an up to date Development Plan.

RESOLVED –

(1)               That the Planning Inspector’s report, Appendix 2 to the agenda, be accepted.

(2)               That the Vale of Aylesbury Local Plan, as modified in accordance with the Inspector’s report (Appendix 1), and updated to amend a minor error regarding a site area referred to in paragraph 2.1 of the supplementary agenda report, be submitted to Council with a recommendation that it be adopted.

(3)               That the final Sustainability Assessment report, detailed with the supplementary agenda, be noted.

(4)               That Council be recommended to delegate authority to the Cabinet Member for Planning and Regeneration, in consultation with the Service Director for Planning and Environment, to make further minor amendments that will not alter the implementation of the plan.

Cabinet received a report on the achievements of the Community Boards in their first year, 2020-21 and plans for the year 2021-22.

RESOLVED –

That the achievements of the Community Boards in their first year (2020-21) and plans for the year 2021-22 be noted.

Cabinet received a report on the increased responsibility of the Virtual School Head.  On 16 June, 2021, the Department for Education had announced that from September 2021 Virtual School Heads would take a strategic leadership role in promoting the educational outcomes of the cohort of children with a social worker and for those who had previously had a social worker and were aged from 0 up to 18 years.

All local authorities were eligible to receive grant funding provided under Section 31 of the Local Government Act 2003 to deliver the extended Virtual School Head role.  The amount allocated to Buckinghamshire Council was £127,496.

RESOLVED –

(1)               That the increased responsibility of the Virtual School Head be noted.

(2)               That it be agreed that grant funding provided to the Council under Section 31 of the Local Government Act 2003 to deliver the extended Virtual School Head role be used for that purpose.

Recommendations

To extend the end date for the e-scooter trials in Buckinghamshire taking place in Aylesbury, High Wycombe and Princes Risborough until March 2022

Recommendations:   

To adopt the Hollands Farm Development Brief as a Supplementary Planning Document

Recommendations:   

To extend the proposed area of weight restriction to include the B440 and put this proposal to Statutory Consultation.

The Leader AGREED:

To extend the proposed area of weight restriction to include the B440 and put this proposal to Statutory Consultation.