Issue - meetings

The Planning Portfolio Holder

(a)          revised officer hourly rate for Planning Performance Agreements – Appendix 1 – to be implemented with effect from 1 April 2018; and

(b)          agreed that the new rates should be reviewed ln 12 months’ time.

This decision was first published on 26 March 2018 and so the deadline for call-in is Wednesday 4 April. If not called-in this decision can be implemented on Thursday 5 April.

The Planning Portfolio Holder

(a)             revised officer hourly rate for Planning Performance Agreements – Appendix 1 – to be implemented with effect from 1 April 2018; and

(b)             agreed that the new rates should be reviewed ln 12 months’ time.

The Planning Portfolio Holder considered a report seeking to update the schedule of hourly officer charges to ensure that:

(a)             Income received through planning performance agreements recovered the cost of providing pre-application advice; and

(b)             appropriately qualified staff continued to be available to provide effective and expert pre-application advice to developers, reflecting the Council’s planning and related objectives.

The aim was to standardise practices across Cambridge City and South Cambridgeshire.

In response to a question, the Portfolio Holder and Interin Head of Development Management said that the intention was to achieve a

n outcome that transferred more of the costs of providing advice from the Local Planning Authority onto developers. Staffing levels and the charges for PPA and pre-application advice will be kept under review. .

The Planning Portfolio Holder

(c)             revised officer hourly rate for Planning Performance Agreements – Appendix 1 – to be implemented with effect from 1 April 2018; and

(d)             agreed that the new rates should be reviewed ln 12 months’ time