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Infrastructure Delivery Plan (IDP) Annual Review and Update 2020/21

Meeting: 11/01/2022 - Strategic Planning and Infrastructure Committee (Item 147)

147 Infrastructure Delivery Plan (IDP) Annual Review and Update 2020/21 pdf icon PDF 354 KB

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Minutes:

The Principal Planning Officer introduced the report, which contained the annual update on the original Infrastructure Delivery Plan (IDP) that had supported the Council’s 2017 adopted Local Plan (LP). A separate IDP had been produced in 2021 as supporting evidence to the Regulation 19 ‘draft for submission’ documents public consultation, as part of the ongoing Local Plan Review.

 

The Principal Planning Officer  stated that the IDP should be considered as a high-level strategic overview of the infrastructure schemes required to support the development proposed within the adopted LP. The historical background of the IDP since its creation in 2016 was outlined.

 

In obtaining updates from the infrastructure providers as shown within the IDP, particular attention was drawn to the addition of four new infrastructure schemes, with seven schemes having been removed from the document due to their completion. The completed schemes were included within Appendix 2 to the report. It was reiterated that the IDP provided an update on the infrastructure schemes included within the document at the time of review only.

 

The schemes’ categorisations by priority and time frame delivery were informed by technical judgements based on the expected development rates and the level of necessity in enabling planned development across the borough. The IDP did not reflect the corporate prioritisations of the schemes included and the interactions between the IDP and other documents, such as the Infrastructure Funding Statement, were highlighted. It was reiterated that the IDP was a live document.

 

In response to questions, the Planning Policy Officer confirmed that the information relating to the schemes, such as the cost, was based upon the feedback received from the infrastructure providers in annually updating the document.

 

The Committee felt that the mechanisms for reviewing the IDPs content should be improved and that the number of schemes within the IDP was too large. It was suggested that there should be greater emphasis on delivering a smaller number of key infrastructure schemes moving forward. The impact of infrastructure provision in considering the LP was reiterated. 

 

RESOLVED: That

 

1.  A review of the document’s style and the infrastructure contained within the document, including an emphasis on the risks associated, be conducted by Officers and presented to the Committee at a later date; and

 

2.  A Member’s briefing be organised on the various infrastructure projects contained within the Infrastructure Delivery Plan.