Agenda item

Consideration was given to a report requesting Members comments on a proposed Action Plan to be considered by Cabinet to address the recommendations of the Planning Peer Review Team. 

Members expressed their wish to inform Cabinet of the views of the Committee in relation to whether the action plan should be submitted for additional scrutiny to the appropriate scrutiny committee.

A vote was taken with 7 votes in favour and 8 votes (including the casting vote of the Chair) against additional scrutiny of the action plan.

Resolved:-               (i)         That it be recommended to Cabinet that the proposed Draft Action Plan be agreed.

(ii)        That training for both members of the Planning

Committee and officers be provided on local finance considerations (an amended action with respect to recommendation 5).

(iii)       That guidance be provided to both Parish Councils and the public on the status of local finance considerations in the determination of planning applications ( a new action with respect to recommendation 5).

(iv)       That Cabinet be informed that the Planning Committee resolved unanimously that it is of the view that the Action Plan should not include consideration of introducing making call-ins subject to the Chair’s approval (a deletion of an action with respect to recommendation 9).