Agenda and minutes
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Apologies To receive apologies for absence. Minutes: Apologies for absence were received from Councillors Baxendale, Gray, Miles, Patrick, Prenter and Schoemaker.
As Councillor Baxendale had provided his apologies for the meeting Councillor Fenton proceeded as Vice Chair in the Chair for the meeting. |
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Declarations of Interest To receive Declarations of Interest in relation to planning matters. Minutes: There were none.
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To approve the minutes of the meeting held on 15 November 2022. Minutes: The Chair advised that the Development Team Manager had requested an amendment to the minutes. They requested that at Minute number DCC.088 on the second set of bullet points, the third bullet point which starts “The Fit for the Future (FFF) Team” be substituted for: “Officers are looking to integrate older cases into the new system. Officers have already implemented a last touch date to sort dormant cases by date of last action. Officers are working with the Fit for the Future (FFF) team on new workload reporting tools to manage both new and historic cases.” The Development Team Manager advised this was because he felt the minutes had committed the Fit for the Future team to something unintentionally and wanted to provide a more accurate record.
On being put to the vote the amendment was agreed.
RESOLVED That the Minutes of the meeting held on 15 November 2022 including the amendment outlined above were approved as a correct record.
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Planning Schedule and Procedure for Public Speaking PDF 127 KB (Note: For access to information purposes, the background papers for the applications listed in the above schedule are the application itself and subsequent papers as listed in the relevant file.) Minutes: Representations were received and taken into account by the Committee in respect of Applications:
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68 Thrupp Lane, Thrupp, Stroud, Gloucestershire, S.22/1503/HHOLD PDF 353 KB Erection of second storey extension and erection of detached garage and car port. Minutes: The Principal Planning Officer introduced the application on behalf of the Assistant Planning Officer. The following points were highlighted:
Councillor Aldam, Ward Councillor, was unable to attend the meeting and asked for a statement to be read on her behalf. The statement highlighted the following:
Mr Harris, a Parish Councillor from Brimscombe and Thrupp Parish Council spoke against the application. He asked the Committee to reject the application and highlighted the following points:
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Development Control Committee Revenue Estimates - Revised 2022/23 and Original 2023/24 PDF 174 KB To present to the committee the revised estimates for 2022/23 and original estimates for 2023/24. Additional documents: Minutes: The Principal Accountant introduced the report and highlighted the significant variances which included:
Councillor Cornell raised a query with how the budgets were set out for the coming year given the many uncertainties around inflation, costs and income. The Head of Development Management explained that they had to amend the forecast during this financial year due to lower than expected income. The planning fees were set by Central Government and rumoured to increase in 2023/24 however income from planning applications would always be difficult to predict and therefore budgets may need to be adjusted accordingly.
Councillor Green proposed and Councillor Brown seconded.
After being put to a vote, the Motion was carried unanimously.
RECOMMENDED TO STRATEGY AND RESOURCES That the: a) Revised Development Control Committee revenue budget for 2022/23 and original 2023/24 revenue budget were approved. b) Fees and Charges list as shown at Appendix A was approved. |
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Budget Monitoring Report Q2 2022/23 PDF 129 KB To present the 2022/23 forecast outturn position against the revenue budgets that the Committee is responsible for, in order to give an expectation of possible variances against budget. Minutes: The Principal Accountant introduced the report and explained that the Monitoring Position for Q2 showed a projected net revenue overspend of £237k which was detailed in table 1. He provided further detail on the variances which included:
In response to Councillor Green, the Development Team Manager confirmed that the overspend in relation to the Enforcement Team was a result of agency staff. This was due to a high demand for the service coupled with higher than usual staff turnover. This was expected to reduce as more staff were recruited.
RESOLVEDTo note the outturn forecast for the General Fund Revenue budget for this Committee.
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