(a)

stage one of the base enhancement works phase was concluded on 6 August 2012 and was followed by stage two, the main construction phase, beginning on 14 August 2012. Current projections show that the commissioning stage would begin in 2014 and the energy from waste plant would be fully operational at this stage;

(b)

the conditions and S106 clauses attached to the planning permission were being monitored closely by the Planning department and the detailed schemes   required were considered following consultation with various technical officers and experts such as ones within the Environment Agency and Local Highway Authority and Public Protection Service Unit; compliance with these conditions would regularly be reported to the Planning Committee for monitoring;

(c)

all S106 Obligation payments, which were indexed linked ensuring that the payments would rise at the same rate as inflation, for the first phase had been paid in full; these payments were monitored by the Council’s Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL) and Planning Obligations Officer;

(d)

the North Yard Community Trust was hoped to be up and running by November 2012 and would begin to allocate the spending of the annual community fund of £150k on local well-being initiatives.

(e)

a scheme to ensure that the majority of waste industrial bottom ash would not be landfilled had been submitted  in order to comply with condition 8,  MVV needed to ensure that a suitable processing site was in place at the time that the energy from waste plant became operational and this might be in another local planning authority area;

(f)

the detailed Construction Environmental Management Plan, required by condition 18, had been analysed and varied to try and improve upon it and to ensure improvements were delivered in the local community’s interest;

(g)

the conditions have not been varied, but the detailed technical  schemes that were created to deliver the conditions had been scrutinised in order to improve them and ensure that each condition was delivered appropriately.

(h)

decisions taken in the local community’s interest should be part of a consultation process with members, who were elected as local community representatives;

(i)

consideration needed to be given to the process of monitoring conditions dand who this should be delegated to , and in particular whether Part C para 2.8 of Plymouth City Council’s Constitution could assist.