The Development Control Committee is responsible for making decisions on the bigger and more sensitive planning applications received by the Council. It meets Once a month and is made up of Councillors from all parts of the District.
The remaining applications (approximately 80% of those received), are determined by the Director of Environment & Regeneration on behalf of the Council, under what are known as delegated powers.
You are welcome to attend this Committee and listen to the debate, or you can speak directly to the councillors who make the decisions on planning applications.
If you decide to attend the Planning Committee, copies of the agenda showing the reports that are to be decided at that meeting will be available to you on arrival.
Not all of the reports are discussed in detail. Only those applications where Members of the Committee need clarification of the issues raised in the report will be discussed before a decision is made.
Sometimes decisions on applications are deferred so that further information can be obtained or if the Committee want to visit the site before making a decision on an application.
To find out more about Developement control committee please see the Committee Section In these pages you will find out about:-
- What happens at the meeting
- Who's on the Committee
- Where and when it meets
- How to arrange to speak at the Committee
- What's on the next Committee agenda
- What happened at the last meeting
The Document below contains guidance for speaking at a Committee meeting
Please click here to view Guidance Notes on Speaking at Committee (PDF Format)