Committee details
Planning Committee
Purpose of committee
The functions of the Planning Committee are :
To be responsible for all the Council's town and
country planning and development management
functions under The Town and Country Planning Act 1990, Listed Buildings
and Conservation Areas Act 1990 and The Town and Country Planning (General
Permitted Development) Order (and any associated or related legislation or
regulations)
Highways use
and regulation
The exercise of powers relating to the regulation
of the use of highways (including footpaths and bridleways)
Tree
Preservation and Hedgerows
Functions relating to the preservation of trees and
the protection of important hedgerow, including the making of TPOs and Hedgerow
Protection Order. Powers relating to complaints about high hedges
Enforcement
powers
The exercise of powers relating to the enforcement
of planning control set out in the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 and any
associated or related legislation or Regulations)
Membership
- Councillor Allen Thwaites (Chair)
- Councillor James Mason (Vice-Chair)
- Councillor Pip Allnatt
- Councillor Ian Atherton
- Councillor Siggy Atherton
- Councillor Ronan Browne
- Councillor Pat Cumbers
- Councillor Margaret Glancy
- Councillor Marilyn Gordon
- Councillor Leigh Higgins
- Councillor Donald Pritchett
- Councillor Mike Brown (Substitute)
- Councillor Sharon Butcher (Prev Brown) (Substitute)
- Councillor Christopher Evans (Substitute)
- Councillor Alison Freer (Substitute)
- Councillor Simon Orson (Substitute)
- Councillor Richard Sharp (Substitute)
Contact information
Support officer: Democratic Services.