The Council regularly monitored how planning policies were being implemented in regards to the decision-taking process, as well as progress on the plan-making process for preparation of documents set out in the Local Development Scheme.

As agreed at Planning and Licensing Committee on 1 December 2015, as soon as monitoring data became available the information was collated for publication into a series of monitoring updates, each reporting on different monitoring issues, which together formed the Council’s Authority Monitoring Reports (AMR). For clarity these had been branded “Brentwood Monitoring Reports” to be consistent with the emerging Brentwood Local Development Plan (LDP) and other supporting documents.

The latest monitoring report in the series of updates had been prepared for publication, with information relating to residential completions for the period 1 April 2016 to 31 March 2017 (data available after March 2017 was included where appropriate).

Cllr Faragher MOVED and Cllr Wiles SECONDED the recommendations  in the report and following a discussion a  vote was taken by a show of hands and it was

UNANIMOUSLYRESOLVED 

To approve publication of the Brentwood Monitoring Report: Housing Delivery 2016/17, as set out in Appendix A, subject to corrections discussed relating to Table 1 and Figure 1.

Reasons for Recommendation

It was important that the Council published monitoring information in order to share performance and achievements with the local community as information became available. It also met the monitoring requirements set out in the PPF and Town and Country Planning Regulations 2012, as amended by the Localism Act 2011.

In addition to publishing monitoring information in usual formats, such as a PDF document on the Planning pages of the Council’s website, use of the DataShare site would help meet the Council’s commitment to being open and transparent. AMR data would be freely available to view and download in a variety of formats.