This report recommends the Board to adopt an Affordable Housing and Planning Obligations Supplementary Planning Document.  The report also refers, in paragraph 11, to the submission of related reports to Council in September and the Board in October.

The Head of City Development submitted a report (previously circulated, now appended) concerning the Affordable Housing and Planning Obligations Supplementary Planning Document.

Councillor Colin Cook (Board Member for City Development) introduced this report. And commended it to the Board as he felt it would offer further clarity and guidance.

Resolved to:-

(1)  Adopt the Affordable Housing and Planning Obligations SPD;

(2)  Authorise the Head of City Development to make any necessary editorial corrections to the document prior to publication;

(3)  Note that a separate report will go to Council on 30^th September in order to approve the bringing into force of the CIL on 21^st November 2013 [to allow a clean break between the old system and the new]. Linked to this, a report will be presented at CEB on 9^th October to agree the Regulation 123 list that details the infrastructure projects that may be funded in part or whole by CIL.