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Harlow and Gilston Garden Town Guidance Infrastructure Delivery Plan Strategic Viability Assessment and "How to" guide

Meeting: 24/07/2019 - Council (Item 89)

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Minutes:

Please refer to Minute X above for the proposal, seconding and debate of this resolution. 

 

RESOLVED - that: (A) the Harlow and Gilston Garden Town Infrastructure Delivery Plan, Strategic Viability Assessment and “How To” Guide for Planning Obligations, Land Value Capture and Development Viability be agreed as material considerations for Development Management purposes; and

 

(B)        the Leader be delegated authority to make minor consequential changes necessitated by the publication of the National Planning

Guidance.

 


Meeting: 04/06/2019 - Executive (Item 40)

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Decision:

Recommended to Council that (A) the Harlow and Gilston Garden Town Infrastructure Delivery Plan, Strategic Viability Assessment and How To Guide for Planning Obligations, Land Value Capture and Development Viability be agreed as material considerations for Development Management purposes; and

 

(B) the Leader be delegated authority to make minor consequential changes necessitated by the publication of the National Planning Guidance.

Minutes:

The Leader of the Council submitted a report seeking consideration of key documents relating to the extent and provision of infrastructure associated with the Harlow and Gilston Garden Town.  Councillor Haysey said these documents were intended as guidance to developers so that development was provided with consistency and to a high standard.

 

The Garden Town Lead Officer explained the documents had been endorsed by the other participating councils.  The approach being taken by each authority differed, but for this council, all technical documents were being approved by the Executive and then by full Council. The documents would continue to be reviewed and updated.

 

Councillor Haysey reminded Members that the strategic documents before them included land value capture and viability guidance, and the infrastructure delivery plan. These documents were essential to ensure the Council’s residents obtained their fair share of the value of any uplift on land, and that it was used for the benefit of the community. 

 

Councillor E Buckmaster said the site promoters would present their own IDP in their applications, which would capture specific elements, but that this document was a framework for the whole area.  There was a high level of interest from the parishes involved, as ongoing stewardship as a principle which should include community ownership.    

 

Councillor Haysey said she was aware that officers wished to add a further recommendation.

 

The Garden Town Lead Officer confirmed the intention in seeking a further recommendation was to enable the documents to be amended to reflect minor changes to references to National Planning Guidance which had been re-published since the documents had been prepared.  Therefore he sought an additional recommendation that the Executive delegate to the Leader the authority to make consequential amendments to reflect updated National Planning Guidance. 

 

Councillor L Haysey proposed, and Councillor S Rutland-Barsby seconded, a motion to support the recommendations detailed in the reports.  After being put to the meeting and a vote taken, the motion was declared CARRIED.

 

RESOLVED that it be recommended to Council that – (A) the Harlow and Gilston Garden Town Infrastructure Delivery Plan, Strategic Viability Assessment and How To Guide for Planning Obligations, Land Value Capture and Development Viability be agreed as material considerations for Development Management purposes; and

 

(B) the Leader be delegated authority to make minor consequential changes necessitated by the publication of the National Planning Guidance.