Issue - meetings

To debate the following motions which have been submitted with advance notice, in accordance with the Constitution (to be debated in the order submitted).

Please note that the deadline to submit motions has passed. The deadline for Members to submit amendments to motions is noon on Thursday 14 October 2021. No amendments will be permitted after this deadline.

Any amendments submitted will be published as a supplement to the agenda on the afternoon of Friday 15 October 2021. Amendments for motions will be dealt with in the order submitted. 

Resolved

(1)          That the following motion be adopted:

“This council believes that planning works best when developers and communities work closely together to shape local areas when delivering new homes, infrastructure and commercial sites.

Notwithstanding the above, this Council further believes that the ability of individual residents to support or object to planning applications is an invaluable part of the planning system.  As we await the emerging Planning Reform Bill, this council calls on the Leader of the Council to closely monitor the situation and lobby as appropriate, the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities, The Local Government Association and the District Councils Network to ask them to support and uphold this vital principle”

(For information, following debate of the proposed motion, on being put to the vote the amendment was lost and subsequently fell)

(2)          That the following motion be adopted:

“This Council welcomes Banbury FM’s objective to secure a licence to provide a locally run radio station dedicated to the listeners of North Oxfordshire.

More particularly, this Council supports Banbury FM’s aspiration to operate the local DAB multiplex and to secure an FM community radio licence when they become available.

This Council requests that the Leader writes to Ofcom and the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) to convey our support to Banbury FM for its initiative to persuade Ofcom of Banbury FM’s community-mindedness and licensing credentials to ensure that Banbury FM’s laudable aims can be realised”.

(For information, following debate of the Oxford Cambridge Arc motion, on being put to the vote the motion was lost and subsequently fell)

The Chairman advised that three motions had been submitted and would be considered in the order submitted.

One amendment to the first motion, Planning, had been submitted.  In line with the Constitution, no further amendments to motions were now permitted.

Motion 1: Planning

It was proposed by Councillor Corkin and seconded by Councillor Wood that the following motion be adopted.

“This council believes that planning works best when developers and communities work closely together to shape local areas when delivering new homes, infrastructure and commercial sites.

Notwithstanding the above, this Council further believes that the ability of individual residents to support or object to planning applications is an invaluable part of the planning system.  As we await the emerging Planning Reform Bill, this council calls on the Leader of the Council to closely monitor the situation and lobby as appropriate, the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities, The Local Government Association and the District Councils Network to ask them to support and uphold this vital principle”

Councillor Middleton proposed the following amendment (amendments in italics), which was duly seconded by Councillor Walker.

“This council believes that planning works best when developers and communities work closely together to shape local areas when delivering new homes, infrastructure and commercial sites.

Notwithstanding the above, this Council further believes that the ability of individual residents to support or object to planning applications and policy is an invaluable part of the planning system and should be given due weight as part of the decision process.

As we await the emerging Planning Reform Bill, this council calls on the Leader of the Council to closely monitor the situation and lobby as appropriate, the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities, The Local Government Association and the District Councils Network to ask them to support and uphold this vital principle and the Prime Minister's promise of a 'brownfield first' policy made at the Conservative Party conference.

While we wait for the Prime Minister's pledge that there will be no further unnecessary building on green fields to become national planning policy, and in view of the significant local opposition to recent proposals to remove areas in Cherwell from the Green Belt, we further call on the leader to write to the Secretary of State to review Cherwell's Local Plan Partial Review in light of the Prime Minister's words and/or to call in any planning applications proposed on former Green Belt sites to establish if there are not now, or at the point of application, more suitable brown field sites available"

The amendment was debated and on being put to the vote was lost and therefore fell.

Council debated the motion as submitted, which on being put to the vote was carried and therefore approved.

Motion 2: Banbury FM

It was proposed by Councillor Mallon and seconded by Councillor Ilott that the following motion be adopted.

“This Council welcomes Banbury FM’s objective to secure a licence to provide a locally run radio station dedicated  ...  view the full minutes text for item 44