Open Hastings Help now Search or ask⌘K

SCI Report for Council FINAL

Committee report · Full Council · Wed 24 Sep 2025 · Hastings Borough Council · agenda item 9 · the whole meeting

Read the council's document ↗

What it recommends

In the report's own words. A recommendation is a proposal: the meeting can agree, change or reject it.

What the meeting decided

The minutes record: Agreed. “RESOLVED (unanimously): To adopt the Statement of Community Involvement attached to this report which incorporates relevant comments arising from public consultation. Reasons: A Statement of Community Involvement (SCI) is a statutory document setting out how the council will encourage participation and engagement in planning. It must be reviewed every five years.” minutes ↗

In plain English

Each sentence was checked against the passage it cites; how the checking works.

Recommended · This went to the meeting on Wed 24 Sep 2025. What was decided is in that meeting's minutes.

This report recommends that Full Council adopt the Statement of Community Involvement attached to the report, which incorporates comments from public consultation. p4

It states that the Statement of Community Involvement is a statutory document that is reviewed and updated every five years, and that the previous version dates from May 2021. p5p7

It states that the draft SCI underwent public consultation for five weeks, from 6 August to 10 September 2025. p8

It states that without an up-to-date SCI, there is a risk that a Planning Inspector will reject the Local Plan when submitted, for failing a legal compliance requirement. p28

Show the 5 passages this is based on
  • p4Recommendation(s) 1. Full Council is recommended to adopt the Statement of Community Involvement attached to this report which incorporates relevant comments arising from public consultation.
  • p5Reasons for Recommendations 1. A Statement of Community Involvement (SCI) is a statutory document setting out how the council will encourage participation and engagement in planning. It must be reviewed every five years. An approved document must be in place in order to progress the preparation of the Hastings Local Plan as well as to fulfil other requirements such as setting out what publicity will be given for different types of planning application.
  • p72. The SCI is reviewed and updated every five years. The previous Statement of Community Involvement is from May 2021 hence Hastings’ SCI is now due for renewal.
  • p83. Officers have updated the draft SCI, which has undergone public consultation for five weeks (6 August to 10 September). Officers have now assessed and incorporated where relevant, comments arising from public consultation stage.
  • p28Conclusions and Recommendations 13. If the council does not adopt a new Statement of Community Involvement this will affect the next consultation stages of the Local Plan preparation. Without an up-to-date SCI, there is a risk at examination, a Planning Inspector will reject the Plan when submitted as failing one of the legal compliance requirements. Additionally, the lack of an up to date and encompassing SCI may open grounds for challenge on other council planning related activities. Policy Implications Policy and Organisational Implications

Places and organisations it names

Other papers for this meeting

The council's document is the record; this page collects what Open Hastings knows about it. If something here is wrong, it is corrected in place and logged on the about page.