Issue - meetings

RESOLVED: That the updated terms of reference for Development Control Committee and Plans Sub-Committees be approved subject to a minor amendment and referred to Council for adoption in the Constitution.

  Report CSD23147

The report presented a proposed update to the terms of reference for the Development Control Committee and the Plans Sub-Committees as listed in the Council’s Constitution to enable these Committees to determine a range of types of application in Schedule 2 of the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) Order 2015 (as amended) that were not currently covered in the Functions Regulations.

In considering the proposed update, the Chairman queried whether Members would retain the right to call-in planning applications in their wards.  The Legal Representative confirmed that the right to call-in was specified in another part of the Council’s Constitution and that the proposed update would simply expand the power of Members to call-in a wider range of planning applications.  A Member requested that Paragraphs 2.08 and 2.09 of the proposed terms of reference be further amended to make this clear as follows:

“2.08.1. Planning and Conservation and Building Control. All the Council’s powers and duties relating to town and country planning and development control and building control as specified in Schedule 1 of the Functions Regulations, including, where appropriate, determining cases relating to individual sites and to exercise the prior approval functions under Schedule 2 to the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) Order 2015 (as amended). (Call-in still applies.)

2.09.1. To exercise all the powers and duties of the Council as local planning authority as set out in Schedule 1 of the Functions Regulations and to exercise the prior approval functions under Schedule 2 to the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) Order 2015 (as amended) (Call-in still applies.)”

RESOLVED: That the updated terms of reference for Development Control Committee and Plans Sub-Committees be approved, subject to the above amendments, and referred to Council for adoption in the Constitution.