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191.

FILMING AT MEETINGS

Please note that this meeting may be filmed or recorded by the Council for live or subsequent broadcast via the Council’s internet site or by anyone attending the meeting using any communication method. Although we ask members of the public recording, filming or reporting on the meeting not to include the public seating areas, members of the public attending the meeting should be aware that we cannot guarantee that they will not be filmed or recorded by others attending the meeting. Members of the public participating in the meeting (e.g. making deputations, asking questions, making oral protests) should be aware that they are likely to be filmed, recorded or reported on. 

 

By entering the meeting room and using the public seating area, you are consenting to being filmed and to the possible use of those images and sound recordings.

 

The chair of the meeting has the discretion to terminate or suspend filming or recording, if in his or her opinion continuation of the filming, recording or reporting would disrupt or prejudice the proceedings, infringe the rights of any individual or may lead to the breach of a legal obligation by the Council.

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Noted.

192.

URGENT BUSINESS

The Leader/Cabinet Member will advise of any items they have decided to take as urgent business.

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Minutes:

None.

193.

Declarations of interest

A member with a disclosable pecuniary interest or a prejudicial interest in a matter who attends a meeting of the authority at which the matter is considered:

 

(i) must disclose the interest at the start of the meeting or when the interest becomes apparent, and

(ii) may not participate in any discussion or vote on the matter and must withdraw from the meeting room.

 

A member who discloses at a meeting a disclosable pecuniary interest which is not registered in the Register of Members’ Interests or the subject of a pending notification must notify the Monitoring Officer of the interest within 28 days of the disclosure.

 

Disclosable pecuniary interests, personal interests and prejudicial interests are defined at Paragraphs 5-7 and Appendix A of the Members’ Code of Conduct

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194.

Acceptance of increased planning fees pdf icon PDF 146 KB

The Government has published draft regulations to be laid before Parliament shortly to allow Local Planning Authorities to charge increased planning fees- 20% more than the current fees. This report proposes that the Council charges the increased fees immediately once the regulations have been made and come into force.

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Councillor Strickland considered the report which sought authorisation from the Cabinet Member to enable the Council to immediately increase planning fees by 20% more than the current fees, in accordance with the Draft Regulations, on the date the Draft Regulations take effect, should they be approved by Parliament.

 

RESOLVED

 

That, subject to regulations being made in substantially the same form as the draft Town and Country Planning (Fees for Applications, Deemed Applications, Requests and Site Visits)(England) (Amendment) Regulations 2017 (“the Draft Regulations”) to:

 

a)         increase all planning fees by up to 20%; and

b)        amend and introduce all planning fees as proposed in the Draft Regulations;

 

in accordance with and immediately on any such regulations coming into force.

 

Reasons for decision

The acceptance of the 20% increase in planning fees and introduction of new fees will allow the Planning Service to increase its capacity and drive further efficiencies in the Planning Service and ensure compliance with staturoty requirements.

 

Alternative options considered

To reject the offer of a 20% increase in planning fees and the option to charge fees for permission in principle applications and application where permitted development rights have been removed.

 

This option was rejected as the Council does not have discretion under the 2012 Regulations to vary or waive the fees.  Further,  it would only represent a modest rise in planning fees and would be unlikely to discourage development given that planning fees are a very small proportion of the overall cost of a building/development project. 

 

195.

Any other business

To consider any items of urgent business as identified in item 2.

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None.