Terms of Reference
1. To
consider and recommend to the Cabinet the Development Strategy for
the Council’s Housebuilding
Programme on an annual basis.
2. To
consider and sign-off development appraisals and financial
appraisals produced by the Council’s appointed Development
Agent for sites previously identified by the Cabinet as having
development potential and that could be included within the
Council’s Housebuilding
Programme.
3. To
approve the submission of detailed planning applications, and/or if
more appropriate outline planning applications, by the
Council’s appointed Development Agent for sites that the
Cabinet Committee considers are suitable for development and
viable, having regard to the development appraisals and financial
appraisals for the sites.
4. To invite
ward members to attend meetings of the Cabinet Committee when
potential development sites in their ward are under consideration,
and to provide an opportunity for ward members to provide comments
on proposed developments, before development appraisals and
financial appraisals are signed-off and approvals to submit
planning applications are given.
5. To
approve the subsequent development of sites considered suitable for
development and viable that receive planning permission, subject to
the acceptance of a satisfactory tender for the construction
works.
6. To
approve, and include within financial appraisals, the use of the
following sources of funding for the development of individual
sites within the Council’s Housebuilding Programme:
(a) The agreed Housing Capital
Programme Budget for the Housebuilding
Programme;
(b) Capital
receipts made available through the Council’s Agreement with
the Department of Communities and Local Government allowing the use
of receipts from additional Right to Buy (RTB) sales as a result of
the Government’s increase in the maximum RTB Discount to be
spent on housebuilding;
(c) Financial contributions
received from developers for the provision of affordable housing
within the District, in lieu of on-site affordable housing
provision, in compliance with Section 106 Planning Agreements;
and
(d) Grant funding received
from the Homes and Communities Agency.
7. To
approve the submission of the Council’s Pre-Qualification
Questionnaire to the Homes and Communities Agency (HCA), applying
for Investment Partner status with the HCA.
8. To
consider and accept tenders received for the construction works on
sites included within the Council Housebuilding Programme.
9. To determine whether,
in addition to the potential development sites already considered
by the Cabinet, sites with development potential within the
following categories should be added to
either the Housebuilding
Programme’s Primary List or Reserve List and detailed
development appraisals and financial appraisals undertaken by the
Council’s Development Agent:
(a) Other specific garage
sites comprising 6 or less garages;
(b) Specific garage sites
where garage vacancies arise with no waiting list of applicants;
and
(c) Specific areas of
Council-owned land on housing sites considered to be surplus to
requirements.
10. To determine whether
sites on the Reserve List of potential
development sites previously agreed by the Cabinet should be
promoted to the Primary List, and detailed development appraisals
and financial appraisals undertaken by the Council’s
Development Agent, due to:
(a) There being insufficient
numbers of properties that can be viably developed from the Primary
List of potential development sites to deliver a Housebuilding Programme of 120 new homes over a
six-year period; and/or
(b) The Cabinet subsequently
deciding to increase the size of the Housebuilding Programme and there being
insufficient numbers of properties that can be viably developed to
deliver a larger Programme.
11. To monitor and
report to the Cabinet on an annual basis:
(a) Progress with
the Council Housebuilding Programme;
and
(b) Expenditure on
the Housing Capital Programme Budget for the Council Housebuilding Programme, ensuring the use (within
the required deadlines) of the capital receipts made available
through the Council’s Agreement with the Department of
Communities and Local Government allowing the use of receipts from
additional Right to Buy (RTB) sales as a result of the
Government’s increase in the maximum RTB Discount to be spent
on housebuilding.