Issue - meetings

(To receive a report from the Executive Director – Place which seeks approval for the adoption of a formal charging regime for giving pre-application planning advice for minerals, waste and the County Council's own applications in the form of the Charging Schedule and exemptions as set out in Appendix A to the report, to take effect from 1 April 2021)

The Executive:-

1.    approves the adoption of a formal charging regime for giving pre-application planning advice for minerals, waste and the County Council's own applications in the form of the Charging Schedule and Exemptions as set out in Appendix A to the report, to take effect from 1 April 2021; and

2.    delegates authority to the Executive Director – Place to review the Charging Schedule after a minimum of 12 months from its implementation and to make any changes that are felt necessary following this initial period.

Consideration was given to a report by the Executive Director – Place which outlined the proposal for introducing a charging policy for the Planning Services Team when providing pre-application advice to prospective applicants or developers.  Attention was drawn to Appendix A which set out the proposed charging schedule.  If the policy was approved it was planned that it would take effect from 1 April 2021.

Councillor C R Oxby, Vice Chairman of the Environment and Economy Scrutiny Committee was in attendance to present the comments of the Committee, which acknowledged that the proposed charges would bring Lincolnshire in line with how other authorities operated.  Clarification had also been sought by the scrutiny committee regarding the charging of district councils, and it had been reported that it would be unlikely that charges would be levied between the county and district councils, and supported the recommendations set out in the report.

RESOLVED

The Executive:-

1.    approves the adoption of a formal charging regime for giving pre-application planning advice for minerals, waste and the County Council's own applications in the form of the Charging Schedule and Exemptions as set out in Appendix A to the report, to take effect from 1 April 2021; and

2.    delegates authority to the Executive Director – Place to review the Charging Schedule after a minimum of 12 months from its implementation and to make any changes that are felt necessary following this initial period.