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Decision Maker: Executive Councillor for Planning, Building Control, and Infrastructure
Decision status: Recommendations Approved
Is Key decision?: No
Is subject to call in?: No
Members will also be asked to endorse the Infrastructure Delivery Study as part of the evidence base for the Local Plan and Community Infrastructure Levy.
Matter
for Decision:
In March 2010 Cambridge City Council and South Cambridgeshire District Council commissioned an
Infrastructure Delivery Study. It was endorsed as an
evidence base document for the Cambridge Local Plan Review and the Cambridge
Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL) at Development Plan Scrutiny Sub-Committee
in September 2012. The document was agreed as a live document that can be
updated over time to reflect changing circumstances such as changes in the
planned level of provision of housing and employment.
This update had been carried out to reflect
the now agreed planned levels of provision emerging through the Cambridge City
and South Cambridgeshire District Local Plan Reviews. The updated
Infrastructure Delivery Study sets out when and where infrastructure
will need to be provided, the scale of funding needed to achieve this and
potential sources of funding.
The study had been produced in collaboration
with infrastructure and community service providers in order to obtain first
hand views on requirements. The output is a study that provides the Council
with an evidence base to support its planning
policies on infrastructure and developer contributions. The document would form
a key part of the evidence base at both Local Plan and Community Infrastructure
Levy examinations.
Decision of Executive Councillor
for Planning and Climate Change:
The Executive Councillor resolved:
i.
To endorse the
update to the Cambridge and South Cambridgeshire
Infrastructure Delivery Study Update for use as an evidence base document for
the Draft Cambridge Local Plan 2031 and the Cambridge Community Infrastructure
Levy (CIL).
Reason for the Decision:
As set out in the Officer’s report.
Any Alternative Options Considered and Rejected:
Not applicable.
Scrutiny Considerations:
The Committee received a report from the Senior Planning
Policy Officer regarding the update to the Cambridge City Council and South
Cambridgeshire District Council infrastructure delivery study.
The Officer clarified the following points in response to
questions from the Committee.
i.
Page 120, Ref 396. The apparent shortfall in
education funding could be due an existing deficiency. The Head of Planning
would investigate this issue and include any corrections in the final version
of the report which will be submitted as part of the evidence base at both
Local Plan and CIL examinations. .
Action
ii.
Questions were asked regarding leisure provision
and the Head of Planning confirmed that while s106 money could not be used to
fund existing deficiencies and that CIL should not be used to remedy
pre-existing deficiencies unless those deficiencies will be made more severe by
new development.
iii.
CIL could also be used to fund utility
infrastructure. However, this was thought to be unlikely in Cambridgeshire.
The Committee agreed that it was very difficult for them to
scrutinise the document in its current form, and without more detailed background
information. The Head of Planning confirmed that the document had been
presented at this stage due to its links to the Local Plan. However, the
Committee would get further opportunities to scrutinise the document as
governance processes and approaches to determining funding priorities were
developed.
The Committee resolved by 2 votes to 0 to endorse the
recommendations.
The Executive Councillor approved the recommendation.
Conflicts of interest declared by the Executive Councillor (and any
dispensations granted)
Not applicable.
Publication date: 29/07/2013
Date of decision: 09/07/2013