Agenda and draft minutes

Resolved - That Councillor Amber Afzal be appointed as Chair for the meeting.

The Chair welcomed everyone to the meeting and invited members and officers in attendance to introduce themselves.

Apologies for absence were received from Councillor Tomlinson (South Ribble), County Councillor Mrs Whittam and Marcus Hudson (Lancashire County Council).

There were none.

Members are reminded of their responsibility to declare any pecuniary interest in respect of matters contained in this agenda.

If you have a pecuniary interest you must withdraw from the meeting. Normally you should leave the room before the business starts to be discussed. You do, however, have the same right to speak as a member of the public and may remain in the room to enable you to exercise that right and then leave immediately. In either case you must not seek to improperly influence a decision on the matter.

There were none.

Resolved - That the minutes of the last meeting, held on Thursday, 26 September 2024, be noted and signed as a correct record.

Report enclosed.

Ms Emma Price, Planning Policy Officer (Chorley), submitted a report on the Central Lancashire Core Strategy Monitoring covering the period April 2020 to March 2023.

Ms Price informed the committee on the current total housing completions and it was noted that all three authorities have been above target consistently. In 2020/21 units were up by 298, in 2021/22 the units were up by 464 and 2022/23 the units were up by 1,074.

A total of 1,406 affordable dwellings were delivered across Central Lancashire between 2020 and 2023. This exceeded the overall target of 126 dwellings by 264 in 2020/21, 282 in 2021/22 and 482 in 2022/23.

The 2023/24 monitoring report will be brought to a future meeting. Data is still being confirmed in relation to traffic and heritage.

Resolved – that the report be noted.

The Committee is recommended to cancel the meetings in February and March 2025 as the consultation on the Local Plan will still be ongoing.

Resolved – That Committee cancelled the February and March meetings due to Local Plan will still be out for consultation.

To consider the exclusion of the press and public for the following items of business on the ground that it involves the likely disclosure of exempt information as defined in

Paragraph 3 of Part 1 of Schedule 12A to the Local Government Act 1972.

By Virtue of Paragraph 3: Information relating to the financial or business affairs of any particular person (including the authority holding that information)

Condition: Information is not exempt if it is required to be registered under- The Companies Act 1985, The Friendly Societies Act 1974, The Friendly Societies Act 1992, The Industrial and Provident Societies Acts 1965 to 1978, The Building Societies Act 1986 (recorded in the public file of any building society, within the meaning of the Act) The Charities Act 1993.

Information is exempt to the extent that, in all the circumstances of the case, the public interest in maintaining the exemption outweighs the public interest in disclosing the information.

Information is not exempt if it relates to proposed development for which the local

planning authority may grant itself planning permission pursuant to Regulation 3 of the Town & Country Planning General Regulations 1992(a).

Resolved - That the public be excluded from this meeting during consideration of the following items of business on the grounds that there is likely to be disclosure of exempt information which is described in the paragraphs of Schedule 12A to the Local Government Act 1972 which are specified against the heading to each item, and that in all the circumstances of the case the public interest in maintaining the exemption outweighs the public interest in disclosing it.

A presentation will be given at the meeting.

Ms Zoe Whiteside, Service Lead Spatial Planning (Chorley Council) and Mrs Carolyn Williams, Planning Policy Manager (Preston City Council) provided an update on the progress of the Central Lancashire Local Plan.

Resolved – that Committee noted the presentation.