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(Public Pack)Agenda Document for Growth, Environment And Public Document Pack AB GROWTH, ENVIRONMENT AND RESOURCES SCRUTINY COMMITTEE WEDNESDAY 10 JANUARY 2018 7.00 PM Bourges/Viersen Room - Town Hall AGENDA Page No 1. Apologies for Absence 2. Declarations of Interest and Whipping Declarations At this point Members must declare whether they have a disclosable pecuniary interest, or other interest, in any of the items on the agenda, unless it is already entered in the register of members’ interests or is a “pending notification “ that has been disclosed to the Solicitor to the Council. Members must also declare if they are subject to their party group whip in relation to any items under consideration. 3. Minutes of Growth, Environment and Resources Scrutiny Committee 3 - 20 and Joint Scrutiny of the Budget Meetings Held on 1 November 2017 – Growth, Environment and Resources Scrutiny Committee 29 November 2017 – Joint Scrutiny of the Budget Meeting 4. Call In of any Cabinet, Cabinet Member or Key Officer Decisions The decision notice for each decision will bear the date on which it is published and will specify that the decision may then be implemented on the expiry of 3 working days after the publication of the decision (not including the date of publication), unless a request for call-in of the decision is received from any two Members of the relevant Scrutiny Committee. If a request for call-in of a decision is received, implementation of the decision remains suspended for consideration by the relevant Scrutiny Committee. There is an induction hearing loop system available in all meeting rooms. Some of the systems are infra-red operated, if you wish to use this system then please contact Paulina Ford on 01733 452508 as soon as possible. Did you know? All Peterborough City Council's meeting agendas are available online or via the modern.gov app. Help us achieve our environmental protection aspirations and view this agenda online instead of printing it. 5. Peterborough Trees and Woodland Strategy 21 - 120 6. PCC Biodiversity Strategy (Draft For Consultation) 121 - 136 7. Peterborough Green Infrastructure And Biodiversity Supplementary 137 - 204 Planning Document (SPD) 8. Peterborough Flood And Water Management Supplementary Planning 205 - 278 Document (SPD) 9. Developer Contributions Supplementary Planning Document (SPD) 279 - 316 Update 10. Monitoring Scrutiny Recommendations 317 - 322 11. Forward Plan of Executive Decisions 323 - 372 12. Work Programme 2017/2018 373 - 380 13. Date of Next Meeting Joint Scrutiny of the Budget – 8 February 2018 Growth, Environment and Resources Scrutiny Committee - 5 March 2018 Emergency Evacuation Procedure – Outside Normal Office Hours In the event of the fire alarm sounding all persons should vacate the building by way of the nearest escape route and proceed directly to the assembly point in front of the Cathedral. The duty Beadle will assume overall control during any evacuation, however in the unlikely event the Beadle is unavailable, this responsibility will be assumed by the Committee Chair. Recording of Council Meetings: Any member of the public may film, audio-record, take photographs and use social media to report the proceedings of any meeting that is open to the public. A protocol on this facility is available at: http://democracy.peterborough.gov.uk/ecSDDisplay.aspx?NAME=Protocol%20on%20the%20use%20of%20Recor ding&ID=690&RPID=2625610&sch=doc&cat=13385&path=13385 Committee Members: Councillors: J Peach (Chairman) K Aitken, R Brown, M Cereste, A Ellis, R Ferris, J A Fox, C Harper (Vice Chairman), D King, S Nawaz, and N Sandford Co-opted Members: Parish Councillor Keith Lievesley Parish Councillor Richard Clarke Substitutes: Councillors: J Goodwin, S Lane and Sylvester Further information about this meeting can be obtained from Paulina Ford on telephone 01733 452508 or by email – [email protected] MINUTES OF THE GROWTH, ENVIRONMENT AND RESOURCES SCRUTINY COMMITTEE MEETING HELD AT 7PM ON WEDNESDAY 1 NOVEMBER 2017 BOURGES/VIERSEN ROOMS, TOWN HALL, PETERBOROUGH Committee Councillors Aitken, Brown, Cereste, Ellis, Ferris, J A Fox, Harper, Members Present: King, Peach (Chairman), Sandford, Sylvester, Parish Councillor Co-opted Members Lievesley and R Clarke Officers Present: Simon Machen, Corporate Director, Growth and Regeneration Richard Kay, Head of Sustainable Growth Strategy Peter Carpenter, Director of Financial Services Mark Sandhu, Head of Customer and Transactional Services Lisa Roberts, Head of Culture and Leisure Also Present: Steve Bowyer, CEO Opportunity Peterborough Councillor Steve Allen, Cabinet Advisor to the Leader 24. APOLOGIES FOR ABSENCE Apologies were received from Councillor Nawaz and Councillor Sylvester was in attendance as substitute. The Chairman advised the Committee that he had received a request to change the order of item 7 Serco Annual Report and item 8 Sport Strategy on the agenda. The officer presenting item 7 had to attend another meeting and would arrive late. The Committee unanimously agreed to this change. 25. DECLARATIONS OF INTEREST AND WHIPPING DECLARATIONS Item 5. Peterborough Local Plan Proposed Submission Councillor Harper declared an interest in that he was the Chairman of the Planning and Environment Committee and would therefore be reserved in his comments on the Local Plan item. 26. MINUTES OF THE GROWTH, ENVIRONMENT AND RESOURCES SCRUTINY COMMITTEE MEETING HELD ON 29 AUGUST 2017 AND 20 SEPTEMBER 2017 The minutes of the Growth, Environment and Resources Scrutiny Committee meeting held on 29 August 2017 and 20 September 2017 were agreed as a true and accurate record. 27. CALL IN OF ANY CABINET, CABINET MEMBER OR KEY OFFICER DECISIONS There were no requests for call-in to consider. 28. PETERBOROUGH LOCAL PLAN PROPOSED SUBMISSION 3 The Head of Sustainable Growth Strategy introduced the report which provided the Committee with the updated version of the proposed submission of the Local Plan (LP) for recommendation for approval at Cabinet for public consultation. The Local Plan had previously been presented to the Committee on 20 September 2017 where a late recommendation had been presented which proposed that the Local Plan be deferred for a period of 2-3 months, to enable officers to (a) fully appraise the new method for calculating housing need, and (b) bring back to Members a revised housing target and a subsequent revised set of proposed allocations. The Committee were informed of the key changes to the Local Plan since previously presented which included the reduction in the number of houses now required. The Growth, Environment and Resources Scrutiny Committee debated the report and in summary, key points raised and responses to questions included: Members sought assurance that due diligence had been conducted around housing need and were informed that the methodology for recalculating housing need had been a straight forward process and had not required a huge amount of work. Policy LP8: Development proposals of 15 or more dwellings should through negotiation provide 30% affordable housing. This policy would stop developers from splitting sites into smaller sites to avoid providing affordable housing. The Local Plan was a tool to assist planners with regard to future developments and therefore did not include specific transport schemes. Policy LP40: Tanholt Farm, Eye had been designed to ensure the necessary infrastructure would be put in place for any new development. Members were advised of the process for the allocation of sites which included a small percentage of growth in the villages of only 4 to 5%. Growth in villages was based on hierarchy of the villages and which villages could take the growth. Concern was raised regarding the withdrawal of the Castor and Ailsworth site as this would now mean more pressure on other villages to expand. The Officer provided a detailed explanation of how the decision was made to withdraw the Castor and Ailsworth development. The methodology had remained the same as that applied to the previous version of the Local Plan submitted in September, the only difference being that the government figure had changed. The Corporate Director for Growth and Regeneration advised the Committee that the land north of Castor and Ailsworth had to be of a certain size to make it deliverable and viable in terms of housing and therefore could not be reduced in size. The Local Plan was a 20 year plan and recognised that the district centres would continuously regenerate. The plan therefore encouraged developers to put forward homes in the district centres and they then may wish to invest in and regenerate the district centre. The formal agreement between Fenland, Peterborough and East Cambridgeshire endorsing the adjustment to reduce the need for homes in Peterborough by 625 had been agreed as of 1 November 2017 and would be published as part of the Local Plan. Members commented that the Vision for Peterborough set out in section 3.1 of the Local Plan did not seem to be SMART objectives and wanted to know what could be done to make then smarter. Members were informed that they were aspirational targets and they were not reliant solely on Peterborough City Council to make them happen. AGREED ACTIONS 4 The Growth, Environment and Resources Scrutiny Committee considered the report and RESOLVED to endorse the Proposed Submission ('Publication Draft') Local Plan as attached at Appendix 1 of the report to Cabinet for recommendation to Full Council . 29. OPPORTUNITY PETERBOROUGH BUSINESS PLAN 2017-18 AND ANNUAL REVIEW 2016-17 The report was introduced by the CEO of Opportunity Peterborough (OP) and provided the Committee with an annual review of the company’s performance for 2016/2017 and Business Plan for 2017-2018. The Growth, Environment and Resources Scrutiny Committee debated the report and in summary, key points raised and responses to questions included: Having a University in Peterborough was very important. The Annual Business Survey conducted by OP this year had highlighted that the number one priority from local businesses was the requirement for a higher skilled work force.
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