Issue - meetings

          The Board received the draft Authority Monitoring Reports (AMR) from the Executive Director - Environment and Regeneration, which provided a progress update on the Halton Delivery and Allocations Local Plan (DALP) policies for the period 1 April 2023 to 31 March 2024.  It also contained the Housing AMR and the Economy AMR.

          Local planning authorities were required to publish information, at least annually, that showed progress with local plan preparation.  They also needed to report any activity relating to the duty to co-operate, provide any information which may have been collected relating to indicators in the plan and highlight any polices which had not been implemented. 

          Table 7 in the report provided information on affordable dwellings, however, no data had been captured for affordable units secured via Section 106; this information would be available next year.

A Board Member requested some information on whether there had been an overall carbon reduction and it was agreed that this would be provided in due course.

          RESOLVED: That the Board endorse the draft AMR’s so that the documents can be made publicly available and published on the Council’s website.