Issue - meetings

The Committee is asked to consider whether to introduce charging for Street Naming and Numbering Discretionary Services.

(Report attached)

Members were asked to consider, for recommendation to full Council, a report which sought to introduce charges for the discretionary elements of the street naming and numbering service.  The report also detailed the relevant legislation to be adopted by full Council as part of the process for introducing charges.

It was noted that the charges would not apply to individual residents but to developers and house builders.  A number of other local authorities had recently introduced such charges and if approved by Council the income generated would cover the cost of providing the street naming and numbering post within ICT Services. 

Officers were currently in discussion over which department would be best placed to notify developers of the proposed charges, ICT or Planning, and Members requested that they be informed once a decision had been made on this.  

In response to Member questions, Officers clarified the need to adopt the relevant legislation detailed in the report, together with the position in relation to previous charges which had been made.

RECOMMENDED that

1)            Sections 64 and 65 of the Town Improvement Clauses Act 1847 and Sections 17, 18 and 19 of the Public Health Act 1925 be adopted by the Council;

2)            charging for the discretionary element of Street Naming and Numbering be introduced from April 2016 and the fees set out at Appendix 1 to the report be adopted; and

3)            authority be delegated to the Head of Transformation and Organisational Development to make the necessary amendments to the Street Naming and Numbering Policy resulting from the decisions at 1) and 2) above.