Issue - meetings
Neighbourhood Planning: Determination of Roman Road Bow Neighbourhood Forum Redesignation Application
Meeting: 27/11/2024 - Cabinet (Item 6)
Additional documents:
- Appendix. 1: Neighbourhood Forum Application Form, item 6
PDF 538 KB
- Appendix. 2 Neighbourhood Forum Area Map, item 6
PDF 393 KB
- Appendix. 3: Neighbourhood Forum Constitution, item 6
PDF 267 KB
- Appendix. 4: Equalities Impact Assessment Screening, item 6
PDF 281 KB
- Webcast for Neighbourhood Planning: Determination of Roman Road Bow Neighbourhood Forum Redesignation Application
Decision:
1. Defer the decision on the redesignation of the Roman Road Bow Neighbourhood Forum as the designated neighbourhood forum for the Roman Road Bow Neighbourhood Planning Area, pending resolution of concerns regarding community representation on the Neighbourhood Forum’s membership and management committee.
2. Delegate authority to the Corporate Director Housing and Regeneration, in consultation with the Lead Member and Mayor, to determine the redesignation application.
Action by:
Corporate Director Housing and Regeneration (D. Joyce)
Planning Officer (M. Acton-Filion)
Minutes:
The Mayor and the Cabinet Member for Regeneration, Inclusive Development and Housebuilding indicated they wished to defer consideration of the neighbourhood forum redesignation application pending resolution of outstanding concerns regarding a lack of community representation on the Forum and in particular its management committee. The Mayor noted in-principle agreement to the application, subject to satisfactory resolution of these concerns.
Officers provided detail on the implications of delaying the decision including the relevant statutory timescales. The Chief Executive indicated the decision to defer represented a risk to the Council he wished to minimise and accordingly asked that the provision of relevant information and/or further engagement with the forum to resolve the aforementioned concerns be progressed within the next working day. The Mayor indicated he was agreeable to authorising the Corporate Director of Housing and Regeneration to take the final decision on the application, following consultation with himself.
RESOLVED that the Mayor in Cabinet:
- Deferred the decision on the redesignation of the Roman Road Bow Neighbourhood Forum as the designated neighbourhood forum for the Roman Road Bow Neighbourhood Planning Area, pending resolution of concerns regarding community representation on the Neighbourhood Forum’s membership and management committee.
- Delegated authority to the Corporate Director Housing and Regeneration, in consultation with the Lead Member and Mayor, to determine the redesignation application.