Tonight has been a meeting of Test Valley Borough Council's Full Council, held at the Crosfield Hall in Romsey.
Brilliant to agree Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL) grants of just over £500,000 to a number of organisations across Test Valley, including an additional £100,000 for the Plaza in Romsey toward their extension and improved facilities.
So far, thanks to the current councillor's management of developer contributions, TVBC have allocated over £2.8 million in CIL grants to local projects across the borough.
We also debated a motion which proposed that adoptable highway standards were applied to all new development in the borough.
I'm glad that Council (almost unanimously) accepted my amendment that we should decide where those were implemented rather than it being a blanket application.
Apply highway standards to every new development would require sewers, street lights and hard kerbs in every location. Entirely inappropriate for a rural village where there were otherwise no streetlights for example. Better that we can choose the standards applied.
We also want and need to have the power to enforce the work to adopt roads where the developers take too long to bring them up to an adoptable level. If we have to do the work and bill the developer for doing so, then so be it.
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