Issue - meetings

To consider the report of the Director of City Development providing an update on the work undertaken to establish the principles on which the financial contribution of housing developers to the construction of the East Leeds Orbital Road (ELOR) could be based. He report invites the Board to note the rationale behind the approach proposed and to consider the implications for the Council and its role in leading the delivery of infrastructure and housing in the East Leeds Extension.

Further to Minute No. 100, 9^th October 2013,the Director of City Development submitted a report providing an update on the work undertaken to establish the principles on which the financial contribution of housing developers to the construction of the East Leeds Orbital Road (ELOR) could be based. The submitted report invited the Board to note the rationale behind the approach proposed and to consider the implications for the Council and its role in leading the delivery of infrastructure and housing in the East Leeds Extension.

The Board acknowledged the significance of the scheme for East Leeds, both in respect of housing development and also with regard to associated infrastructure and noted that it was currently anticipated that the Northern Quadrant planning application would be submitted to City Plans Panel in February 2014.

Responding to an enquiry, the Board was provided with clarification both on the associated timescales for the scheme, together with the processes by which the development was being progressed. 

Members noted that further work was to be undertaken with regard to proposals around greenspace provision associated with the development, whilst the Board also received an update in respect of the current position regarding infrastructure funding.

Regarding paragraph 2.11 of the submitted report, the Executive Member for Neighbourhoods, Planning and Support Services sought the Board’s approval to withdraw a section of this paragraph (commencing: ‘It is envisaged’ through to ‘to the A58’, together with the removal of the word ‘further’ from the final sentence), in order to properly reflect the current position in respect of the Red Hall site, and the fact that preliminary work in the form of an Informal Planning Statement would continue in 2014, along with associated consultation. The paragraph within the submitted report would then read:

‘In Section 1 – Red Hall, the Council itself owns the majority of the land, which was the subject of a report to Executive Board in September 2013. Members approved drafting of an informal Planning Statement for the site that following relocation of the existing Parks & Countryside nursery would guide possible future development and set out the requirement for local infrastructure and facilities. The detailed brief will be developed during 2014 and will be subject to consultation with local residents and other stakeholders’. 

RESOLVED -

(a)  That the position reached in discussions with the Northern Quadrant consortium, as set out within the submitted report, be noted.

(b)  That with regard to paragraph 2.11 of the submitted report, the section of this paragraph (commencing: ‘It is envisaged’ through to ‘to the A58’, together with the word ‘further’ from the final sentence) be withdrawn from the report, in order to properly reflect the current position in respect of the Red Hall site, and the fact that preliminary work in the form of an Informal Planning Statement would continue in 2014, along with associated consultation. As a result, the paragraph within the submitted report would read as detailed above.

(c)  That support be given to the principle that (subject to  ...  view the full minutes text for item 164