Agenda and minutes

Councillor Mrs Blackett attended during Minute 57

To receive and record apologies for absence.

Apologies for absence were received from Councillor Howard and Councillor Lenaghan.

To receive and record declarations of interests from members present in respect of the various matters on the agenda for this meeting.

There was no declarations of interest.

The Chairman to report the outcome of meetings attended or  other information arising since the last meeting.

There were no matters that the Chairman wished to report to the Board.

The Board were given an opportunity to consider and comment upon the Review of the Development Management Committee Report. The Scrutiny Panel for Planning and Economy introduced the recommendations and answered member’s questions in connection with the report.

The main areas covered in the discussion were:

1.    The red card procedure and members’ awareness of the procedure.

2.    The costs to the Council of red-carding applications.

3.    The appeals procedure and the costs to the Council and applicant.

It was RESOLVED that the Scrutiny Board recommend to Cabinet that;

(i)            The Development Management Committee be retained in its current form;

(ii)          The red card procedure be retained in its current form;

(iii)         Planning reports for major and minor developments have an executive summary at the beginning of the report; and

(iv)         Shorter planning reports be produced for applications that have been previously considered by the Development Management Committee. Such reports to only contain details relevant to the decision to be made by the Committee.