The
Development Management Committee deals with all of the
Council’s functions relating to planning and development
control. It makes decisions on planning applications,
including those which relate to listed buildings or buildings in
conservation areas, and can authorise enforcement action against
work which has been carried out without planning
permission. It also has duties and powers relating to the
preservation of trees and hedgerows and the protection of listed
buildings.
Terms of reference
Functions relating to town and country planning and
development control.
Terms of
Delegation
1.
Town and Country Planning Act 1990 and any related
legislation including:
a)
determination of planning applications (subject to 2
below);
b)
enforcement of planning control; and
c)
waste land notices, purchase notices, etc.
2.
The only planning matters that are dealt with by the
Committee are:
a)
Applications on which two or more material planning
objections have been received in the stipulated time span, which
has not been resolved by negotiation or through the imposition of
conditions and which Officers wish to support.
b)
Applications which any Councillor requests in
writing within 21 days of the circulation of the details of the
application on the Weekly List, with a valid planning reason for
bringing it to the Committee.
c)
Major planning applications, or contentious
applications which Officers, in consultation with the
Chair, consider are likely to be of significant
public interest.
d)
Applications submitted by or on behalf of the
Council for its own development, except for minor developments, for
which no objections have been received.
e)
Applications which are notified to Planning Services
as being submitted by or on behalf of a Councillor of the Authority
(or his or her spouse/partner), the MP for the district, or
Officers at Service Head Level or above.
3.
The following matters may be referred to the
Committee by the Planning and Building Control Manager, subject to
the criteria in paragraph 2 above
a)
Householder development and related
applications for listed building and conservation area
consent;
b)
Temporary planning permissions (subject
to a maximum 3 year time limit) and related applications for listed
building consents;
c)
Applications for alterations to shop
fronts, including the installation of external shutters and
ATM’s and other related applications;
d)
Applications for a means of
access;
e)
Advertisements, blinds, canopies and
related applications for listed building and conservation area
consent;
f)
All major commercial
development;
4.
All new residential development.
Meetings are open to members of
the public, except for when confidential information is being
considered.
Members of the public,
applicants and agents can address the Committee on individual
planning applications. For more information, please see Rule 19 of
the Council
Rules of Procedure from the Council’s
Constitution.