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Meeting: 01/07/2020 - Planning and Orders Committee (Item 13)

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Decision:

13.1    LBC/2020/1 – Listed Building Consent for new access, new fog signal and replacement solar panels at Trwyn Du Lighthouse, Penmon

 

It was resolved to accept the report and its contents for information purposes

Minutes:

13.1    LBC/2020/1 – Listed Building Consent for new access, new fog signal and replacement solar panels at Trwyn Du Lighthouse, Penmon

 

The application was presented for the information of the Planning and Orders Committee in order to report on a procedural error in the determination of an application for Listed Building Consent to install a new access, new fog signal and replacement solar panels at Trwyn Du Lighthouse, Penmon.

 

The Chief Planning Officer reported that a Listed Building application was approved by Planning Function Officers under delegated powers despite initially being the subject of a Committee call-in by two Local Members. Despite securing the withdrawal of the call-in request by one of the Members no such request was made of the other Member and the application was approved by Officers under delegated powers on 15 April, 2020 with the notice of decision being issued on the same day. Upon discovering the error a retrospective request was made on 4 May, 2020 to the other Local Member which was rejected. Legal advice confirmed that the decision stood unless challenged and overturned in the Courts.

 

Subsequently, a review of call-in procedures was undertaken and a summary of the findings is provided in the report. An audit of call-in requests over the last 12 months was also conducted and found that there were no other incidents of call-in applications being determined under delegated powers without prior discussion and agreement of Local Members. The findings of the review suggest that the failure to respond to the Elected Member’s call-in request was as a result of human error. In order to improve the robustness of processes to mitigate against a recurrence, the actions listed in the table within the report have been implemented.

 

It was resolved to accept the report and its contents for information purposes.