Issue - meetings

To consider approval for a request for funding from the Green Initiatives Fund.

The Committee considered a request for funding from the Green Initiatives Fund for an external contractor to produce a Climate Change Supplementary Planning Document (SPD). A working group formed of a number of departments in the Council had compiled a brief that would help inform the SPD. Climate Change SPD’s used by other local authorities had also been researched. Once completed, the SPD would be a supporting document for the existing Local Plan and future Local Plan.

The Committee noted that the supplementary planning document would provide more guidance and could more easily be amended than the Local Plan. The Committee queried the budget for the contractor and the Climate Change Officer confirmed that the amount requested was based off costs charged for other local authorities.

The Committee resolved to approve funding of £30,000 from the Green Initiatives Fund for an external contractor to produce a Climate Change Supplementary Planning Document.