Issue - meetings

To consider a report of the Cabinet Member for Planning and Emergency Planning.

(a)    That Dorset Council applies a monitoring fee to support the cost of monitoring and reporting on planning obligations. The fee would be based on the values and methodology outlined in the report and applied to all planning applications submitted from the 1April 2025 which require a planning obligation.

(b)    That following implementation, authority be delegated to the Executive Director for Place Services and anyone nominated by him in the scheme of nomination, to update the fee as necessary in consultation with the Cabinet Member for Planning and Emergency Planning.

Reason for the decision

To enable the implementation of charges to support the staffing resource in the monitoring and compliance of approved s106 Planning legal agreements.    

Cabinet considered a report that recommended the introduction of s106 planning obligations monitoring fees for Dorset from 1 April 2025.  The approach followed a review of best practice and the collection of agreement data with staff costs relevant to Dorset.  The recommended method would apply a monitoring fee per planning obligation, and this would be reviewed to ensure the administration cost associated with the management of developer contributions was covered by the fee.

It was proposed by Cllr S Bartlett and seconded by Cllr S Clifford.

Decision

(a)    That Dorset Council applies a monitoring fee to support the cost of monitoring and reporting on planning obligations. The fee would be based on the values and methodology outlined in the report and applied to all planning applications submitted from the 1April 2025 which require a planning obligation.

(b)    That following implementation, authority be delegated to the Executive Director for Place Services and anyone nominated by him in the scheme of nomination, to update the fee as necessary in consultation with the Cabinet Member for Planning and Emergency Planning.

Reason for the decision

To enable the implementation of charges to support the staffing resource in the monitoring and compliance of approved s106 Planning legal agreements.