Issue - meetings
Statement of Community Involvement (SCI) Update 2025
Meeting: 12/02/2025 - Executive (Item 297)
297 Statement of Community Involvement 
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Purpose
To agree an update of the Council’s Statement of Community Involvement (SCI) in accordance with legislative requirements.
Recommendations
That the Executive resolves to:
1. Note the content of the report;
2. Approve the updated Statement of Community Involvement (SCI) attached at Annex A;
3. Delegate responsibility to the Head of Planning Services, in consultation with the Executive Member for Planning, to make any minor changes to the SCI before it is finalised and published.
Additional documents:
Minutes:
The purpose of the item was to agree an update of the Council’s Statement of Community Involvement (SCI) in accordance with legislative requirements.
Councillor Hugo Ashton, Executive Member for Planning, introduced the item. Councillor Ashton noted that members would be aware that the SCI was required to be kept up to date and reviewed every five years. The current Statement was from September 2020, and it was therefore due to be reviewed. The primary changes to the SCI reflected the increased use of social media and the Council’s increased use of data.
Councillor Ashton proposed accepting the recommendations.
Councillor Andrew Prosser, Executive Member for Climate Action and Nature Recovery, seconded the recommendations and noted that the Council had successfully obtained Prop Tech Innovation Fund funding for this.
RESOLVED:
That the Executive:
1. Noted the content of the report;
2. Approved the updated Statement of Community Involvement (SCI) attached at Annex A;
3. Delegated responsibility to the Head of Planning Services, in consultation with the Executive Member for Planning, to make any minor changes to the SCI before it is finalised and published.