Planning Delivery Grant
On the 30th March the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister announced details of the Planning Delivery Grant award to Planning Authorities in 2006/7. In total £135m is being made available to support planning services through the financial year and, as in previous years, the funding is to enable local authorities to improve their planning resources and introduce the changes the Government is bringing in as part of its programme to reform planning. Planning Delivery Grant is not ring-fenced but local authorities are expected to invest the money in their planning services, as future grant award will depend on performance improvement. To encourage this investment, 25% of each local authority’s 2006/7 grant will be tied to capital expenditure.
Details released on 30th March indicate that the Vale Council will receive a total of £258,770 in Planning Delivery Grant this year, made up as follows:
£ 67,248 for development control performance
£ 14,652 for online planning capabilities
£124,093 for housing consideration
£ 52,525 for plan making performance
£ 252 upward adjustment
A further report will be made to the Executive in due course seeking authority to commit the award money, together with the balance of uncommitted grant from previous awards, following discussion of spending options with the Planning Portfolio holder.
Minutes:
(Time: 3.05pm to 3.07pm)
On 30 March 2006, the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister announced details of the 2006/07 Planning Delivery Grant award to planning authorities. In total, £135m was being made available to support planning services through the financial year and, as in previous years, the funding was to enable local authorities to improve their planning resources and introduce the changes the Government was bringing in as part of its programme to reform planning. Planning Delivery Grant was not ring-fenced for expenditure on planning but local authorities were expected to invest the money in their planning services, as future grant award would depend on performance improvement. To encourage this investment, 25% of each local authority’s 2006/07 grant would be tied to capital expenditure.
Details released on 30 March indicated that the Vale would receive a total of £258,770 in Planning Delivery Grant this year, made up as follows:
£ 67,248 for development control performance
£ 14,652 for online planning capabilities
£124,093 for housing consideration
£ 52,525 for plan making performance
£ 252 upward adjustment
A further report would be made to the Executive in due course seeking authority to commit the award money, together with the balance of uncommitted grant from previous awards, following discussion of spending options with the Planning Portfolio holder.
The Executive congratulated the planning officers on bringing in a higher than expected Planning Delivery Grant. This was down to the good work undertaken by staff over the past year.
RESOLVED
that the agenda report be noted.