To respond to the motion passed by Full Council, which requested the executive give consideration to ensuring  that the Development Partnership should be designed to be a Sustainable Development Partnership, with equal consideration given to social, environmental, and economic dimensions of planned development. This report provides assurance that the overarching agreement enables weight to be given to the social, environmental and economic dimensions developments delivered through the Development Partnership alongside value for money and financial sustainability considerations.

That:

a) the development and regeneration partnership arrangements as set out in the report provide assurance that full consideration will be given on a project by project basis to the social, environmental, and economic dimensions of planned development.

1.           To not seek to secure cost effective and deliverable, sustainable forms of development through the partnership and  only seeking to comply with statutory obligations, including the legal terms of the Development Partnership’s Overarching Agreement. This would mean that all developments would always be built to minimum standards of sustainability, removing opportunities to consider the delivery of environmentally progressive development in line with the objectives of the motion