Decision details

To set out the key updates to the SCI in relation to recent changes to legislation. The SCI requires adoption by Cabinet and Full Council to be considered a development plan document. 

The Portfolio Holder introduced the report which advised that an update to the Statement of Community Involvement (SCI) was required every five years or prior to the formal examination stages of Development Plan Documents. The SCI set out how the Planning Department would engage and consult with the community through both the plan making and planning application processes. Updates had been made to the document in accordance with revised legislation and the changing function of the Planning Service, with regard to community planning issues and cooperation with other public bodies.

The Portfolio Holder said he wanted the particularly mention the report author who was a young Planning Officer. The document was a quality one, which had been extremely well written and bode well for the Planning Department’s future ambitions to “grow its own” staff.

Recommended:

That the content of the updated Statement of Community Involvement be agreed and adopted.