Issue - meetings

Background:

This report concerned monitoring information prepared by the Planning Service to meet statutory requirements for publishing data on development and infrastructure. It presented the annual Authority Monitoring Report, which provided an assessment of development trends and wider social, economic and environmental indicators, together with progress on the preparation of the new Medway Local Plan.

A key monitoring measure was the annual level of housebuilding, which in 2024/25, fell from the highs of the last few years to 634, a fall which was consistent with elsewhere both, regionally and nationally.

The report also presented the Infrastructure Funding Statement, which set out details of funding agreed, received and spent through developer contributions, and proposed spend on infrastructure.

Reasons:

To comply with the duty to compile and publish a planning monitoring report.

To satisfy the requirement to annually publish an Infrastructure Funding Statement.