Issue - meetings

Background:

This report sought authority to publish the Medway Local Plan Authority Monitoring Report that was produced annually.

The Monitoring Report consisted of three volumes:

• Volume 1 (Appendix 1 to the report) provided an overview of key population and development trends, social, economic and environmental indicators, and a commentary on progress with the preparation of the new Medway Local Plan;
• Volume 2 comprised detailed data tables that were summarised in Volume 1;
• Volume 3 was the Local Aggregate Assessment, that assessed the supply of mineral aggregates from land won, imported and secondary and recycled sources in Medway in 2013. Volumes 2 and 3 were attached at Appendix 2 to the report.

A Housing Implementation Strategy was also presented (Appendix 3 to the report) to set out the position on the supply of housing land and actions being taken to boost the supply of housing.

Appendices 1-3 to the report were included in Supplementary Agenda No.1. A revised copy of the Housing Implementation Strategy had been circulated to Members within Supplementary Agenda No.2, which corrected a small number of errors since the publication of the Cabinet agenda.

It was noted that there were no direct equalities impacts of the approval of the Monitoring Report by Cabinet for publication. Members were advised that in preparing and approving local plan policies, the Council has had due regard to its equality duties under Section 149 Equality Act 2010.

The Cabinet considered Medway’s performance in delivering new homes and the pressures being placed on services and local infrastructure, which would require further investment should further developments come forward.