The City Plan needs clear arrangements for monitoring and reporting to residents, stakeholders, partners and councillors to ensure that policies are being effectively implemented, and to assess the impacts of policies and their contribution towards meeting the City Plan’s objectives and targets.
City Plan Part One (CPP1) Annex 1: Implementation and Monitoring Plan provides an overarching monitoring framework which defines indicators and targets for each CPP1 policy.
This document is an appendix to Annexe 1 and sets out how the policies and site allocations in City Plan Part 2 (CPP2) will be implemented and how the council will undertake monitoring to ensure that the policies are working.
For each policy in the CPP2, a separate monitoring table is presented setting out:
- which strategic objectives the policy will help deliver
- implementation/issue(s) relating to the policy
- key delivery mechanisms/partners involved in implementing the policy
- policy indicators and how they will be measured
- targets which will be used to measure progress and success in implementing the policy
- timescales for achieving the targets and monitoring the indicators
- triggers and actions, showing what will be done where targets are not being achieved
Each indicator has been assigned a unique identifier, and part of this prefix identifies its source.
- Single Data List - part of the remaining set still collected by central government
- LOI/ - Local Indicator – a locally derived indicator deemed to be appropriate for the needs of LDF monitoring;
- LOI/LTP - Local Transport Plan Indicator
For some CPP2 policies, the proposed indicators and targets duplicate those for CPP1 polices or the City Plan Sustainability Appraisal and are therefore already being monitored. Where new indicators and targets are proposed for CPP2 policies, these will be incorporated within an extended Implementation and Monitoring Plan which will be consolidated to cover the policies in both Parts 1 and 2 of the City Plan.
The Authority Monitoring Report (AMR) which is published annually will continue to provide the main source of monitoring information. The AMR will measure and assess the performance of the City Plan by showing progress against the defined indicators and targets in the Implementation and Monitoring document. Additionally, it will identify where targets have not been met, and identify any need to reassess policy implementation or undertake other actions as specified in the monitoring framework.