Issue - meetings

To seek endorsement for submission of the Annual Monitoring Report (AMR) which will report on indicators set by Central Government and monitoring effectiveness of Local Plan Policies, for 1st April 2008 to 31st March 2009 to the Government Office for the West Midlands (GOWM) by 31st December 2009 and publication of the document.

(Report attached – Appendix available on the Council’s Website and in Group Rooms)

RESOLVED that

1)         the Annual Monitoring Report 2008/90 (as attached at Appendix A to the report to the Committee) be approved for submission to the Government Office for the West Midlands and for subsequent publication; and

2)         from the 2009/10 Annual Monitoring Report period onwards, Officers submit the Annual Monitoring Report subject to there being no indications that policies need to be reviewed.

(Officers informed the Committee that the delay in the preparation of the Core Strategy had been as a result of an extended period of public consultation imposed externally and that this had been noted and accepted by the Government Office for the West Midlands (GOWM).

The Committee received the fifth Annual Monitoring Report (AMR) which, when endorsed, was to be submitted to the Government Office for the West Midlands (GOWM). Officers explained that the document was a factual report produced for monitoring purposes. Members were asked to agree that future AMRs be submitted to GOWM by Officers subject to their being no policy implications arising from the report.

It was reported that the AMR met all three of the requirements as set out in Regulation 48 of the Town and Country Planning (Local Development) (England) Regulations 2004.

Officers informed the Committee that the delay in the preparation of the Core Strategy had been as a result of an extended period of public consultation imposed externally and that this had been noted and accepted by GOWM.

RESOLVED that

1)         the Annual Monitoring Report 2008/90 (as attached at Appendix A to the report to the Committee) be approved for submission to the Government Office for the West Midlands and for subsequent publication; and

2)         from the 2009/10 Annual Monitoring Report period onwards, Officers submit the Annual Monitoring Report subject to there being no indications that policies need to be reviewed.