Purpose

Local Planning Authorities are required by the
Local Plan Regulations 2012 to publish from time to time an
Authority Monitoring Report (AMR) detailing their performance in
the preparation of local planning policies. They are required to
describe:
- Progress made with documents detailed in the council’s
Local Development Scheme (LDS);
- Performance in the implementation of local planning policies,
including identifying policies which have not been implemented and
potential causes of / solutions to non-implementation;
- Details of any Neighbourhood Plans or Neighbourhood Development
Orders made;
- Details of Community Infrastructure Levy income and
expenditure;
- Details of co-operation undertaken with other councils/bodies in
line with the Duty to Cooperate set out in section 110 of the
Localism Act 2011.
In addition to these the report details progress in relation to
various indicators linked to the Sustainability Objectives set out
in the Local Plan Sustainability Appraisal (SA), and sets out the
headline information related to the council’s Self-build and
Custom Housebuilding Register. Publication of the report is
recommended in order to fulfil the legal reporting requirements, as
well as to reinforce the evidence base for local plan policies. The
report includes an updated picture of recent and anticipated
housing delivery in the borough, and sets out that as of April 2024
the council was compliant with the requirement under national
planning policy to identify a 5-year supply of deliverable housing
sites. The report also confirms that the council has set out
actions and opportunities for furthering the biodiversity objective
set out in the Environment Act 2021 and how it proposes to take
these forward. The report will be available on the Council’s
website once finalised.

Content

Option 1 - To approve and publish the
Authority Monitoring Report 2023/24

Alternative options considered

Option 1 - To publish the report
Option 2 - Not to publish the report