Agenda and minutes

Under the terms of Executive Procedure Rule 2.3, Councillor Anderson was invited to attend the meeting on behalf of Councillor A Carter.

To identify items which have been admitted to the agenda by the Chair for consideration

(The special circumstances shall be specified in the minutes)

There were no late items as such, but it was noted that supplementary information had been circulated to Members following the despatch of the agenda in the form of a letter dated 13^th August 2010 from the Home Builders Federation.

To consider the report of the Director of City Development on the contents of the letter from the Home Builders Federation, on the subject of house building targets, which was circulated at the meeting of the Board on 21^st July 2010 and its relationship to the provisional view taken by the Board at that meeting. 

Further to Minute No. 41(b), 21^st July 2010, the Director of City Development submitted a report reviewing a letter received from the Home Builders Federation (HBF) which had initially been circulated at the Executive Board meeting of 21^st July 2010.  The report also sought confirmation of the interim housing target of 2,260 p.a. which had been provisionally agreed at that same meeting.

The contents of the letter circulated at the 21^st July 2010 Board meeting focussed upon the proposals detailed within a report submitted to that same meeting on the implications arising from the abolition of the Regional Spatial Strategy (RSS) and regional housing targets.

As Members had deemed the correspondence too detailed for consideration at short notice on 21^st July 2010, the Board provisionally formed the Council’s view that land supply and the 5 year requirement was to be based upon the annual requirement of 2,260 p.a. net, as set out in the draft Regional Spatial Strategy. In addition, the Board sought the submission of a further report in response to the letter, in order to enable proper consideration to be given to the matters raised by the HBF when determining the adoption of an interim housing target.

In addition to the initial correspondence received from the HBF, a further letter, dated 13^th August 2010 had been received from the HBF and circulated for Board Members’ consideration prior to the commencement of the meeting. 

RESOLVED –

(a)  That the contents of the report be noted;

(b)  That following provisional agreement on 21^st July 2010, an interim housing target of 2,260 p.a. be adopted;

(c)  That the decisions detailed above be exempt from the provisions of Call In because of the need for the Council to establish a position on such matters as soon as possible, due to the number of undetermined planning appeals which are currently pending and more specifically, to establish such a position prior to the commencement of a public inquiry relating to land at Allerton Bywater beginning on 23^rd August 2010.