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

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

The purpose of this report is to inform Members of the budget process for 2025/26 as required by Part 6, Section 2 of the Council’s Constitution.

The purpose of this report is to appraise the Planning Policy Committee of its forecast out-turn against the 2024/25 budgets, which were approved by Full Council at its meeting of the 21 February 2024.

The purpose of this report is to appraise the Planning Policy Committee of its draft final out-turn against the 2023/24 budgets which were approved by Full Council at its meeting of 9 March 2023, subject to external audit. 2022/23 figures are also shown for information.

This report seeks the Committee’s agreement of the full update to the council’s three-year Infrastructure Investment Plan (IIP 2025/27), following an eight-week stakeholder consultation (1 February to 1 April 2024). The IIP 2025/27 allocates Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL) funds to key infrastructure projects, assessed and prioritised using submitted evidence, for delivery within the three-year period. Following the Committee’s agreement, the IIP 2025/27 will need to be referred to Full Council for approval.

To update Planning Policy Committee on the publication of the council’s annual Infrastructure Funding Statement (IFS) setting out S.106 planning obligation contributions (i.e. financial contributions from developments secured under Section 106 of The Town and Country Act 1990, as amended) and CIL income and spend on the council’s infrastructure list from the previous financial year. This is in accordance with the requirements of ‘The Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL) Regulations 2010 (as amended).

This report updates the committee on the Arun Secondary School progress with landowner engagement.  It identifies the work streams and costs required to progress the potential site options available for allocation and acquisition, of a sustainable and deliverable site for the accommodation of a 10 Form Entry (with room for 4 form expansion and 6^th form provision) Secondary School to serve the strategic developments within Arun.

This report is noting the summary of the responses received from the public consultation on the Regulation18 Issues and Options - Direction of Travel document, in order to inform the next stage of the Local Plan Update 2023 to 2041.

This report is intended to introduce members of the Planning Policy Committee to the ‘Three Harbours Strategy’ document (hereafter referred to as ‘the Strategy’). It also seeks agreement from the Committee for Arun District Council to become a formal signatory to this new Strategy, in partnership with a number of other local authorities, institutions and environmental and conservation groups across the region such that the council can influence the future of this important resource.

The Committee’s Work Programme for 2024-25 is attached for the Committee’s information.