Agenda item - Items referred from Council

Items: referred from the last meeting of Full Council held on 7 April 2022:

1)    Cross Party Notice of Motion – Solidarity with Refugees

2)    Petition – Save Brighton and Hove’s Green Fringe

Notice of Motion

6.1 The Chair asked the Committee to agree the actions in the cross-party Notice of Motion on page 23 of the agenda regarding Solidarity with Refugees, and the Motion was agreed.

Petitions

6.2 The Chair invited Lawrence Leather to introduce the petition starting on page 29 of the Agenda.

6.3 The Chair gave the following response:

Thank you for your petition. We’ve been in contact about this and other issues regarding the site and thank you for your constructive engagement on this all.

We are expecting the City Plan Part Two Examination Inspector’s report later this Summer but there has been no indication from the Inspector that she is looking to remove urban fringe sites from the Plan - other than the site adjacent to Horsdean Recreation Ground (which was agreed during the public hearing sessions). Legal advice is that if the council now wanted to remove urban fringe sites the entire plan would need to be withdrawn and could not be adopted. This would have the result of making all urban fringe sites far more vulnerable to unwanted levels and types of development. It would also mean the loss of all the other important policies in the new Plan that will protect and enhance the city. You can be assured, however, that if or when planning applications are brought forward on urban fringe sites – they will be required to include detailed ecological evidence that will be carefully scrutinised by officers. Further to this, I’m happy to work with you and others on taking forward proposals with the site. I therefore propose the Committee notes your petition.

RESOLVED:The petition was noted by Committee.