Agenda

Members and Officers are invited to make any declaration of pecuniary, personal and/or prejudicial interests that they may have in relation to items on this agenda, and are reminded that they should re-declare their interest before consideration of the items or as soon as the interest becomes apparent.

Members and Officers should make their declaration by stating:

a)             the item they have the interest in

b)             whether it is a pecuniary/personal interest and/or prejudicial interest

c)             the nature of the interest

The Committee will be asked to approve as a correct record the Minutes of the Special Planning Policy Committee held on 21 February 2023.

To receive questions from the public (for a period of up to 15 minutes).

The Committee is asked to approve its start times for meetings during 2023/24.

This report seeks Planning Policy Committee’s agreement to recommend to Full Council that the Council’s ‘Interim Affordable Housing Policy’ statement (to accommodate the First Homes Policy) be updated to include local allocations policy criteria, consistent with the Council’s published ‘Housing Allocations Scheme’.

This report seeks Planning Policy Committee’s agreement to recommend to Full Council to designate Middleton-on-Sea as a neighbourhood area rather than a business area. The decision to be made is whether the specified area is an ‘appropriate area to be designated as a Neighbourhood Area’.

This report briefs Committee on the technical consultation on the proposed new ‘Infrastructure Levy’ (IL) under the Levelling up and Regeneration Bill, and asks Committee to agree the proposed response. The IL, if introduced, would change how development contributions are currently secured in Arun (i.e. via CIL - Community Infrastructure Levy and S106).

The report seeks the Planning Policy Committee’s agreement that the pause to the Arun Local Plan Update be lifted and that steps be taken to progress engagement on the plan preparation including the commissioning of evidence and initial consultation.

This report updates the Committee on the A27 Ford Road Junction Feasibility Study prepared by West Sussex County Council. The purpose of the study was to provide evidence to inform future discussions on the design of the A27 Arundel Bypass, future Local Plan reviews and funding applications. The study was commissioned following requests from stakeholders, notably including elected representatives.

This report is a light touch update to the Council’s Infrastructure Investment Plan 2022-2024 (IIP 2022/24). The IIP 2022/24 sets out the council’s Community Infrastructure Levy funding priorities over 3 years and a light touch update consultation was undertaken in March 2023 to identify any emergent matters that may require amendment to the IIP 2022/24. A full IIP update is scheduled for 2024.

This report updates the Committee on the Council’s Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL) receipts and the apportionment of CIL payments to Parish and Town Councils for delivering their projects, including how the money is being used and reported (in accordance with the CIL regulations).

This report updates the Committee on progress towards key objectives within each theme for the year 2022-2023.   The full report will be presented to Committees as an important overview of council performance and sits alongside the key performance indicators (KPIs) for 2022-2023 which form the Corporate Plan.

This report updates the Committee on the Q4 and end of year Performance Outturn for the Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) which make up the Corporate Plan, for the period 1 April 2022 to 31 March 2023.

The Committee’s Work Programme for 2023-24 is attached for the Committee’s information.