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Annual Monitoring Report and Infrastructure Funding Statement

Meeting: 15/12/2021 - Cabinet (Item 84)

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The Head of Planning Services has submitted a report to  approve the Authority Monitoring Report and Infrastructure Funding Statement for publication.

Cabinet is recommended to:

1.    Approve the Authority Monitoring Report and Infrastructure Funding Statement 2020/21 for publication; and

2.    Authorise the Head of Planning Services to make any necessary minor corrections not materially affecting the document prior to publication.

 

Additional documents:

Minutes:

The Head of Planning Services had submitted a report to approve the Authority Monitoring Report and Infrastructure Funding Statement for publication.

Cllr Alex Hollingsworth, Cabinet Member for Planning and Housing Delivery, introduced the report which fulfilled a statutory duty to provide an annual account of performance against a number of indicators. The target for house building had, for the first time in several years, been exceeded, but adherence to it over the life of the Local Plan would require building on all sites identified for the purpose. He noted that there was a demand for employment sites within the City and these should be provided. They were generally more sustainable and   preferable to work located outside the City in business parks.

Rachel Nixon, Principal Planner, drew attention to an amendment to Appendix 2 of the report; the updated version would replace the one which had originally been placed on the Council website.

Cabinet resolved to:

1.         Approve the Authority Monitoring Report and Infrastructure Funding Statement 2020/21 for publication; and

2.         Authorise the Head of Planning Services to make any necessary minor corrections not materially affecting the document prior to publication.

 

 

 


Meeting: 08/12/2021 - Scrutiny Committee (Item 71)

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Cabinet, at its meeting on 15 December, will consider a report on the Annual Monitoring Report and Infrastructure Funding Statement. The Committee is asked to consider the report and agree any recommendations thereon.

The Committee considered the report for 2019/20 on 01 December and made no recommendations in relation to it.

Cllr Alex Hollingsworth, Cabinet Member for Planning and Housing Delivery and Rachel Nixon, Senior Planner, have been invited to attend for this item. 

 

Additional documents:

Minutes:

Cllr Alex Hollingsworth, Cabinet Member for Planning & Housing Delivery, introduced the report which fulfilled a statutory duty for all planning authorities to report performance, annually, against a range of targets. He then responded to a number of questions from the Committee.

Accommodation outside University campuses was only deemed to be University accommodation if provided directly by one of the Universities for its students. This did not, therefore, for example, include the Student Castle, which was open to students from anywhere.

The significant number of students not on full time taught courses were excluded from accommodation needs as the relevant policies distinguish between those on full time taught courses and those who are not. This was a matter which had been discussed at some length during inspection of the current Local Plan. A  student on a 9 month taught post-graduate course would be counted towards the number with accommodation needs.

Table 7 (Net additional dwellings completed since start of the Local Plan period) included communal and non-communal dwellings and there might be merit in splitting the table to distinguish between the two in future.

It would not always be easy to identify a developer’s contribution to a particular number of affordable dwellings given that it could take many forms and sometimes at a place other than the principal development.

It would be beyond the scope of the Local Plan to encourage the use of sustainable transport for visitors to Oxford as an element  of the Sustainable Tourism  part of the Plan.

Projections of the age profile of the City’s residents were taken account of in preparing the future housing requirements in the Local Plan.

The significant recent reduction in student numbers from both universities without accommodation was probably largely attributable to the consequences of Covid.

The proportion of affordable housing to be included as part of the Northern Gateway represented significant progress given the original stance of the developer.

In the case of major applications  which did not secure a reduction of 40% of regulated energy as required by Policy RE1 it would it would be useful to know where and why.

For land identified in the Local Plan as suitable for housing, officers were in regular and frequent contact with landowners to press them as to when proposals would come forward.