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Appendix 3
Recovery and Renewal Progress Update
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Responding to Increased Demands arising from COVID-19 |
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Action |
Agreed funding |
Target Start |
Target End |
Success |
Progress at January 2022 |
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Planning Development Control fixed term post |
£35,000 Recovery Fund |
ASAP |
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Backlog resolved and staff able to meet demands on the service |
A contractor has in place since mid- October helping process both other and minor applications. This will continue until the end of the financial year when the expected the money allocated will be used up. |
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Planning Enforcement fixed term post |
£35,000 Recovery Fund |
ASAP |
Mar-22 |
Backlog resolved and staff able to meet demands on the service |
The fixed term post be changed to a consultant post given the difficulties in recruiting at a senior officer level. A consultant senior enforcement officer has been in post since mid-October-21 and funding is in place to continue this until the end of the financial year when the budget will be used up. |
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Increased capacity in Heritage and Landscape |
£70,000 Recovery Fund |
ASAP |
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Backlog resolved and staff able to meet demands on the service |
The process is in place to recruit to several posts in HLD. One of which is for the appointment of a new fixed term (1 year) Landscape Conditions Implementation Officer post. The contract for the part-time Principal Conservation Officer post (2 days per week) comes to an end at the end of March 2022 and the post will be re-advertised as another 1-year fixed term contract. Additionally, a specialist contractor is about to be appointed for 4 months to help clear the backlog of tree applications. Funding will need to be carried forward to 2022/23 to accommodate these arrangements. |