Purpose

This
item seeks Cabinet approval of a fee to be included in future legal agreements
to support the effective monitoring and management of planning obligations
including those relating to the delivery of infrastructure.

Content

(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.