Annual Monitoring Report

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Annual Monitoring Report

The Annual Monitoring Report (AMR) is a document which is produced by the Council each December, looking back at the previous financial year, from 1 April to 31 March. 

The AMR measures various indicators to assess the performance of planning policies set out in the adopted development plan and provides a general portrait of the social, economic and environmental conditions in the town and the wider affects of the LDF on the borough. The AMR also assesses the Council's progress in producing its Local Development Framework documents against the timetable set out in the Local Development Scheme.

Worthing’s seventh Annual Monitoring Report for 2010/2011 includes a housing trajectory and monitors housing delivery, business development, flood protection, planning contributions and renewable energy.  This document and all previous AMRs can be viewed below. 

The Localism Bill proposes the removal of the requirement for local planning authorities to produce an Annual Monitoring Report for Government.  However, the Bill retains the overall duty to monitor and there is clear benefit for the Council in sharing the performance and achievements of the planning service with the local community.  For this reason the Council will continue to publish an AMR but subsequent versions will take on a slightly different form.  The Council will now be able to choose which targets and indicators to include in the report and in doing so the AMR will monitor the effectiveness of policies established within the Core Strategy and its effectiveness in meeting the strategic objectives (see Core Strategy - Appendix 1). 

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