The Development and Conservation Control
Committee is one of the Council’s five Regulatory Committees,
which are bodies which have decision-making powers and report to
full Council. Membership is decided at
Annual Council. Further details about
the responsibilities of each Regulatory Committee are available in
Part 2: Article 8 and
Part 3 of the Constitution.
Planning applications may be
decided by officers or the Development and Conservation Control
Committee, which meets on the first Wednesday of every month from
10 am in the Council Chamber. The meetings of the Development and
Conservation Control Committee are open to the public. Planning
policy issues, such as the Local Plan, are the responsibility of
the Cabinet and Council.
On 27 July 2006 Council agreed
that this body be re-named the
Planning Committee.