Issue - meetings

20 minutes

The Board to receive an update and be invited to comment on the draft Local Plan.

Richard Daone (Deputy Head of Planning – Planning Policy)

Richard Daone/Amy McCollough presented an update on the Local Plan covering: 

1. Local plan programme
2. Working with ICB and their advisers on primary care needs
3. Health and wellbeing evidence
4. Social infrastructure audit/mapping

The Board raised the following comments/questions:

1. In response to a question about how GPs could access developer contributions, it was confirmed that monies were paid to local authorities in the first instance and it could be transferred to GPs as a grant.  This would involve GPs signing up to a grant agreement. 
2. The update and work on primary care needs was welcomed.  The “left shift” needed to happen now.
3. There wasn’t a “one size fits all” way of funding GP practices and it was important to consider larger spaces that housed more than just GP spaces.
4. Consideration also needed to be given to people isolated from health and social care.
5. In addition to health infrastructure consideration needed to be given to other infrastructure such as fire and police services.