Planning Committee

The Planning Committee meets once a month and is open to the public.

Meetings are held in-person and will be broadcast online. Requests for remote speaking requests will be considered on a case-by-case basis.

At the Meeting

Please arrive at least 15 minutes before the meeting starts and make yourself known to the Committee Co-ordinator who will explain the procedure.

What materials can be presented to committee?

To enable speakers to best use the time allocated to them in presenting the key issues they want the committee to consider, no new material or letters or computer presentations will be permitted to be presented to the committee.

What happens to my petition?

Written petitions made on a planning application are incorporated into the officer report to the Committee. Petitioners, as members of the public, are welcome to attend meetings but are not permitted to speak unless registered as a supporter or objector to an application.

Agendas, committee reports and supporting documents for forthcoming and previous meetings are available online.
You can also watch live streamed meetings and recordings of previous meetings.

All written representations received before the publication of the committee report will be circulated to members of the committee in advance of the committee meeting. The representations will be summarised, and the committee report will consider their planning merits.

Members of the public and interested parties may still submit written representations following the publication of the committee report. The case officer must receive these representations by no later than 2pm on the working day before the committee meeting.

Representations received after this deadline will only be accepted in exceptional circumstances where the committee chair is satisfied that the representation raises new material planning considerations that have not been raised in other representations already before the committee.

To view supporting documents and details of planning applications considered by the Committee, please refer to the Planning Register.