Agenda item

This Council has no confidence in the ability of the ruling administration of Leeds City Council to deliver a coherent and sound Site Allocations Plan at the reconvened examination process.

 

It was moved by Councillor Andrew Carter, seconded by Councillor J Procter that this Council has no confidence in the ability of the ruling administration of Leeds City Council to deliver a coherent and sound Site Allocations Plan at the reconvened examination process.

 

An amendment was moved by Councillor Campbell, seconded by Councillor J Bentley

 

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“Given the recent consultation document on housing numbers from DCLG and the interim findings of the council’s own review of housing numbers, this council recognises that the core strategy housing targets were wildly inaccurate and therefore”

 

Delete “ and sound” in line two and replace with:

 

“, sound and defendable”

 

A second amendment was moved by Councillor Leadley, seconded by Councillor Finnigan

 

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“is not confident that the ruling administration of Leeds City Council is willing to set aside fully its long?held housing targets, to allow a coherent and sound Site Allocation Plan to be delivered at next year’s re-convened examination.  It instructs the Director of City Development to ensure that a fresh start is made, to allow new housing targets to be matched to a thorough review of housing sites, to reflect the needs of our citizens, not the hollow aspirations and ambitions of land?speculators, bureaucrats, and politicians.”

 

A third amendment was moved by Councillor R Lewis, seconded by Councillor C Gruen

 

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“has no confidence in the Conservative government to deliver coherent planning policy or meet the housing needs of the country.

 

“Council notes Conservative government policy has created the perverse situation where it is both failing to provide the housing needed by the people of Leeds and weakening the protection of the city’s green belt and is therefore utterly dysfunctional. 

 

“Council is concerned the government’s consultation document, ‘Planning for the right homes in the right places’, puts forward a top down, one-size-fits all approach that doesn’t reflect local needs, fails to take account of the need for employment land, and does nothing but add to the disgraceful state of national planning and housing policy.

 

“This Council questions why government abolished top-down targets in 2011, only to reinstate them in 2017, and why government has failed to force developers to build much needed new homes once they have secured planning permission.

 

“Council calls once again for a complete overhaul of the National Planning Policy Framework so that the housing desperately needed by the citizens of Leeds can be delivered while balancing the impact of development on existing communities.”

 

A fourth amendment was moved by Councillor M Dobson, seconded by Councillor Field

 

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“believes that the production of a workable Site Allocation Plan and its acceptance by Central Government is essential to allow Leeds City Council to sensibly manage our housing growth, protect the unique nature of our towns and villages, and ensure our green space is maintained for current and future citizens of Leeds.

 

Council accepts that withdrawing the current Site Allocation Plan would be folly, but commits to urgently enter into meaningful cross-party dialogue to reach a collective position on housing numbers to present to the Inspector when the hearing reconvenes. 

 

Concurrent with this, Council instructs the Director of City Development to urgently review anomalies that the Housing Market Characteristic Areas have thrown up across the city so as to ensure parity and fairness of distribution in any revision to the Site Allocation Plan.

 

To avoid speculative developers looking to exploit any delay in the process, Council clearly and unequivocally commits to bringing forward revisions to the submitted Site Allocation Plan at the earliest opportunity that produce a demonstrable five year land supply while addressing the issues of housing numbers and anomalies around the Housing Market Characteristic Areas.”

 

 

The amendments in the name of Councillors Campbell, Leadley and M Dobson were declared lost.

 

The amendment in the name of Councillor R Lewis was carried and upon being put to the vote it was

 

RESOLVED – That this Council has no confidence in the Conservative government to deliver coherent planning policy or meet the housing needs of the country.

 

Council notes Conservative government policy has created the perverse situation where it is both failing to provide the housing needed by the people of Leeds and weakening the protection of the city’s green belt and is therefore utterly dysfunctional. 

 

Council is concerned the government’s consultation document, ‘Planning for the right homes in the right places’, puts forward a top down, one-size-fits all approach that doesn’t reflect local needs, fails to take account of the need for employment land, and does nothing but add to the disgraceful state of national planning and housing policy.

 

This Council questions why government abolished top-down targets in 2011, only to reinstate them in 2017, and why government has failed to force developers to build much needed new homes once they have secured planning permission.

 

Council calls once again for a complete overhaul of the National Planning Policy Framework so that the housing desperately needed by the citizens of Leeds can be delivered while balancing the impact of development on existing communities.”

 

 

On the requisition of Councillors G Latty and Cohen the voting on Councillor Campbell’s amendment was recorded as follows;

 

YES – 31

 

B Anderson, C Anderson, J Bentley, S Bentley, A Blackburn, D Blackburn, Buckley, Campbell, Andrew Carter, Amanda Carter,  Cleasby, Cohen, Collins, Downes, Elliott,  Finnigan, Flynn, Gettings, Golton, Harrand, Lamb, G Latty, P Latty, Lay, Leadley, J Procter, Robinson, Stephenson, Townsley, Wilkinson and Wood

 

NO – 56

 

Akhtar, Arif, Blake, Bruce, Charlwood, Congreve, Coulson, Coupar, Davey, Dunn, Gabriel, Garthwaite, P Grahame, R Grahame, Groves, C Gruen, P Gruen, Hamilton, Harland, Harper, Hayden, Heselwood, A Hussain, G Hussain, Hyde, Illingworth, Iqbal, Jarosz, Khan, J Lewis, R Lewis, Lyons, Lowe, Macniven, J McKenna, S McKenna, Mulherin, Nagle, Nash, Ogilvie, Pryor, Rafique, Ragan, Renshaw, Ritchie, Selby, Smart, Sobel, E Taylor, Towler, Truswell, Tunnicliffe, Venner, Wakefield, Walshaw and Yeadon

 

ABSTAIN – 3

 

C Dobson, M Dobson and Field

 

On the requisition of Councillors G Latty and Cohen the voting on Councillor Leadley’s amendment was recorded as follows;

 

 

YES – 31

 

B Anderson, C Anderson, J Bentley, S Bentley, A Blackburn, D Blackburn, Buckley, Campbell, Andrew Carter, Amanda Carter,  Cleasby, Cohen, Collins, Downes, Elliott,  Finnigan, Flynn, Gettings, Golton, Harrand, Lamb, G Latty, P Latty, Lay, Leadley, J Procter, Robinson, Stephenson, Townsley, Wilkinson and Wood

 

NO – 56

 

Akhtar, Arif, Blake, Bruce, Charlwood, Congreve, Coulson, Coupar, Davey, Dunn, Gabriel, Garthwaite, P Grahame, R Grahame, Groves, C Gruen, P Gruen, Hamilton, Harland, Harper, Hayden, Heselwood, A Hussain, G Hussain, Hyde, Illingworth, Iqbal, Jarosz, Khan, J Lewis, R Lewis, Lyons, Lowe, Macniven, J McKenna, S McKenna, Mulherin, Nagle, Nash, Ogilvie, Pryor, Rafique, Ragan, Renshaw, Ritchie, Selby, Smart, Sobel, E Taylor, Towler, Truswell, Tunnicliffe, Venner, Wakefield, Walshaw and Yeadon

 

ABSTAIN – 3

 

C Dobson, M Dobson and Field

 

 

On the requisition of Councillors G Latty and Cohen the voting on Councillor R Lewis’s amendment was recorded as follows;

 

YES – 56

 

Akhtar, Arif, Blake, Bruce, Charlwood, Congreve, Coulson, Coupar, Davey, Dunn,  Gabriel, Garthwaite, P Grahame, R Grahame, Groves, C Gruen, P Gruen, Hamilton, Harland, Harper, Hayden, Heselwood, A Hussain, G Hussain, Hyde, Illingworth, Iqbal, Jarosz, Khan, J Lewis, R Lewis, Lyons, Lowe, Macniven, J McKenna, S McKenna, Mulherin, Nagle, Nash, Ogilvie, Pryor, Rafique, Ragan, Renshaw, Ritchie, Selby, Smart, Sobel, E Taylor, Towler, Truswell, Tunnicliffe, Venner, Wakefield, Walshaw and Yeadon

 

NO – 34

 

B Anderson, C Anderson, J Bentley, S Bentley, A Blackburn, D Blackburn, Buckley, Campbell, Andrew Carter, Amanda Carter,  Cleasby, Cohen, Collins, C Dobson, M Dobson, Downes, Elliott, Field, Finnigan, Flynn, Gettings, Golton, Harrand, Lamb, G Latty, P Latty, Lay, Leadley, J Procter, Robinson, Stephenson, Townsley, Wilkinson and Wood

 

ABSTAIN – 0

 

 

 

On the requisition of Councillors G Latty and Cohen the voting on Councillor M Dobson’s amendment was recorded as follows;

 

YES – 7

 

C Dobson, M Dobson, Elliott, Field, Finnigan, Gettings and Leadley 

 

NO – 72

 

Akhtar, B Anderson, C Anderson, Arif, Blake, Bruce, Buckley, Andrew Carter, Amanda Carter, Charlwood, Cohen, Congreve, Coulson, Coupar, Davey, Dunn, Flynn, Gabriel, Garthwaite, P Grahame, R Grahame, Groves, C Gruen, P Gruen, Hamilton, Harland, Harper, Harrand,  Hayden, Heselwood, A Hussain, G Hussain, Hyde, Illingworth, Iqbal, Jarosz, Khan, Lamb, G Latty, P Latty,  J Lewis, R Lewis, Lyons, Lowe, Macniven, J McKenna, S McKenna, Mulherin, Nagle, Nash, Ogilvie, J Procter,  Pryor, Rafique, Ragan, Renshaw, Ritchie, Robinson, Selby, Smart, Sobel, Stephenson, E Taylor, Towler, Truswell, Tunnicliffe, Venner, Wakefield, Walshaw, Wilkinson, Wood and Yeadon

 

ABSTAIN – 11

 

J Bentley, S Bentley, A Blackburn, D Blackburn, Campbell, Cleasby, Collins, Downes, Golton, Lay, Townsley

 

 

On the requisition of Councillors G Latty and Cohen the voting on the substantive motion in the name of Councillor R Lewis was recorded as follows;

 

YES – 56

 

Akhtar, Arif, Blake, Bruce, Charlwood, Congreve, Coulson, Coupar, Davey, Dunn, Gabriel, Garthwaite, P Grahame, R Grahame, Groves, C Gruen, P Gruen, Hamilton, Harland, Harper, Hayden, Heselwood, A Hussain, G Hussain, Hyde, Illingworth, Iqbal, Jarosz, Khan, J Lewis, R Lewis, Lyons, Lowe, Macniven, J McKenna, S McKenna, Mulherin, Nagle, Nash, Ogilvie, Pryor, Rafique, Ragan, Renshaw, Ritchie, Selby, Smart, Sobel, E Taylor, Towler, Truswell, Tunnicliffe, Venner, Wakefield, Walshaw and Yeadon

 

NO – 34

 

B Anderson, C Anderson, J Bentley, S Bentley, A Blackburn, D Blackburn, Buckley, Campbell, Andrew Carter, Amanda Carter,  Cleasby, Cohen, Collins, C Dobson, M Dobson, Downes, Elliott, Field, Finnigan, Flynn, Gettings, Golton, Harrand, Lamb, G Latty, P Latty, Lay, Leadley, J Procter, Robinson, Stephenson, Townsley, Wilkinson and Wood

 

ABSTAIN – 0