Information Team Croydon
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Assistant Chief Executive Directorate
Bernard Wetherill House
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Croydon
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Dear Stephen Whiteside

Environmental Information Regulations request - FOI/6213

Thank you for your request for information, which was received 03/10/22.

Subject: Croydon''s Guidance on Planning Obligations

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Assistant Chief Executive Directorate

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Bernard Weatherill House

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Croydon CR0 1EA

Information Team Croydon
Digital Services
Assistant Chief Executive Directorate
Bernard Wetherill House
7th Floor, Zone B
Croydon
CR0 1EA

Contact: Information Team
[Croydon Borough Council request email]

Dear Mr Stephen Whiteside

Request FOI/6213

Environmental Information Regulations 2004

Your request has been considered under the provisions of the Environmental
Information Regulations 2004. Please accept our apologies for the delay in
responding to you. Specifically, you have requested the following
information:

Planning Guidance Note 1 - Planning Obligations (PGN1) was adopted by UDP
Cabinet Committee on 6 July 2005.

+++ Please provide a copy of the above.

The Council has been unable to source this document.

Following consultation in 2011, a revised version of PGN1 was proposed in
February 2012.

+++ Please provide confirmation of the date on which this version was
adopted and when it was withdrawn.

Revised Planning Guidance Note 1-
Planning Obligations : Developers Contributions – was adopted on
20/02/12.  See link below to the Cabinet and papers can be viewed under
item 12.

[1]https://democracy.croydon.gov.uk/CeListD...

The current version of PGN1, appears to be a document entitled 'Section
106 Planning Obligations in Croydon and their Relationship to the
Community Infrastructure Levy Review 2019'

+++ Please confirm that that this IS the current version of PGN1, and
provide the dates of any consultation and its formal adoption.

The original draft of 'Section 106 Planning Obligations in Croydon and
their Relationship to the Community Infrastructure Levy’ was adopted in
July 2017.

Please see delegated decision to adopt attached. The last para on page 2
gives dates of the consultation period.

The 'Section 106 Planning Obligations in Croydon and their Relationship to
the Community Infrastructure Levy Review 2019' is the Council’s current
guidance on this matter. The Document was adopted in November 2019.

At 1.2, that current document (November 2019) tells us that the '...
previous guidance on Planning Obligations (April 2013) has now been
withdrawn by the Council and replaced by this guidance...'

+++ Please provide a copy of the previous guidance ['Planning Obligations
(April 2013)]', and details of when and how THAT version of the guidance
was consulted upon and formally adopted.

Copy of the 2013 document attached.

We do not hold the information as to when the 2013 document was consulted
upon and adopted. However, it is the Council’s view the 2013 version was
superseded early by the July 2017 version.  Details set out above. 

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Writing:     Information Team

London Borough of Croydon

Bernard Weatherill House

7^th Floor - Zone B

8 Mint Walk

Croydon CR0 1EA

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Information Commissioner’s Office

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Yours sincerely 

Croydon Council

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