Agenda item

The Planning Portfolio Holder considered the Revenue Estimates up to the year 2010-11 and the Capital Programme up to the year 2014-15.

Those present received a revised Appendix A and discussed a number of issues raised in the report.

The Corporate Manager (Planning and Sustainable Communities) highlighted the benefits the Council had enjoyed by being able to obtain Housing and Planning Delivery Grant monies, but cautioned against ongoing reliance on this as a funding stream.

Concern was expressed at imminent redundancies within the Planning Service, and the implications for the Council when the local economy recovered, resulting in a likely increase in the number of planning applications received.

Concern was also expressed at apparently budgeting for an overspend.

The Planning Portfolio Holder endorsed the Revenue Estimates at Appendix A (as revised) to the report; the Capital Programme at Appendix B, and associated proposal forms at Appendices C1 to C4, andrecommend them for consideration by the Cabinet.