Issue - meetings

To receive a report of the Director of Place requesting approval of the list of

Infrastructure items, including affordable housing to be included in the Council’s Infrastructure Funding Statement, which is required to be published on the Council’s website by 31 December 2021.

The Cabinet had before it a *report of the Director of Place requesting approval of the list of Infrastructure items, including affordable housing to be included in the Council’s Infrastructure Funding Statement, which was required to be published on the Council’s website by 31 December 2021.

The Cabinet Member for Planning and Economic Regeneration outlined the contents of the report stating that there was a legal requirement for the Council to publish no later than 31^st December each year an annual Infrastructure Funding Statement.

This comprised of a statement of the infrastructure projects or types of infrastructure which the charging authority intended will be, or may be, wholly or partly funded by CIL and this was known as the “infrastructure list”. The statement also included a report about CIL in relation to the previous financial year, and a Section 106 Report related to the previous financial year on planning obligations.

He explained that Mid Devon District Council was not a CIL charging authority and reminded the Cabinet of the Council’s decision on 21^st January 2021 to withdraw the Mid Devon Community Infrastructure Levy draft Charging Schedule from its examination and that a CIL was no longer progressed.

The Section 106 Report was a factual statement relating to the previous financial year on planning obligations. This was currently being prepared and Members would be notified when this had been completed, before it was published on the Council’s website by the 31^st December.

In line with the approach taken previously in 2020 the Council may still consider it useful, as well as transparent, for it to publish a list of the infrastructure to be funded wholly or partly by S106 contributions over the forthcoming year.

He outlined the contents of appendix 1 which included an infrastructure list and affordable housing and the detail of how the infrastructure items were listed and stated that the New Local Plan for Mid Devon would provide an opportunity to review the infrastructure needed to support new development where this is planned across the district.

Questions were raised with regard to why the Boniface trail was listed as local and was not a strategic issue – the criteria was explained and how this fed into the Local Plan.

RESOLVED that the following be approved:

1.    The list of infrastructure and affordable housing in Appendix 1 that the Council intends to fund, either wholly or partly, by planning obligations and the future spending priorities on these

2.    The inclusion of Appendix 1 – Infrastructure List in the Mid Devon Infrastructure Funding Statement to be published on the Council’s website by 31^st December 2021

(Proposed by Cllr R J Chesterton and seconded by Cllr D J Knowles)

Reason for the decision – there is a legal requirement that the list of infrastructure funding statement be published no later than 31 December each year.

Note:  *Report previously circulated, copy attached to minutes.