Decision details

Planning Advisory Service Review of Planning Committee

Decision Maker: Planning Committee

Decision status: Recommendations Approved

Is Key decision?: No

Is subject to call in?: No

Decision:

Councillor Heather Williams proposed, and Councillor Nick Wright seconded, that

 

“Planning Committee supports the establishment of a joint Member / Officer Planning Improvement Group and:

 

1.    The planning improvement group will elect a chairman as its first order of business and that the Chair be an elected councillor and given the powers, protections and authority that other chairman’s [sic] of this council receive via the constitution.

 

2.    The planning improvement group will produce a draft set of terms of reference which are to include which committee or public meeting they will report back to.

 

3.    No actions will be taken by the group outside of the scope stated within the PAS report or until the terms of reference have been ratified by the planning committee.

 

4.    Minutes will be taken when the group meets and these minutes will be made available to all elected members and the public.”

 

Following debate, the Committee rejected the proposal by seven votes o four.

 

(Councillor Roberts, Heather Williams, Richard Williams and Wright voted in favour of the proposal. Councillors Henry Batchelor, Bradnam, Cahn, Fane, Hawkins, Heylings and Wilson voted against.)

 

By six votes to three, with one abstention, the Committee

 

a)    noted the content and recommendations set out in the Planning Advisory Service (PAS) report attached as Appendix A to the report from the Joint Director of Planning and Economic Development;

 

b)    noted the arrangements put in place for the Planning Committee Development Group that will oversee implementation of the PAS report recommendations; and

 

c)    agreed that an update report on progress of implementation of the PAS report recommendations should be presented to Planning Committee in April 2021.

 

(Councillors Henry Batchelor, Cahn, Fane, Hawkins, Heylings and Wilson supported the recommendations set out in the report from the Joint Director of Planning and Economic Development. Councillors Roberts, Heather Williams and Wright voted against. Councillor Richard Williams abstained. Councillor Bradnam left the meeting during the course of the debate and did not vote.)

Publication date: 15/01/2021

Date of decision: 13/01/2021

Decided at meeting: 13/01/2021 - Planning Committee

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