Issue - meetings
Changes to the Council Constitution - Changes to the Planning Procedure Rules Ahead of Multi-Member Wards Following The 2013 Elections.
Meeting: 22/04/2013 - The Executive (Item 5)
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Decision:
RESOLVED to recommend to the County Council to accept the proposed changes and to authorise Officers to make any consequential amendments to the Constitution.
Minutes:
Submitted - A joint report by the Head of Service (Planning and Public Protection) and the Legal Services Manager on proposed changes to the Planning Procedure Rules which would allow any ‘local member’ for a new ward to call-in a planning application the site of which is located in that ward to the Planning and Orders Committee and also allow any local member for that ward to speak at Committee on that called-in application as a local member.
A number of consequential and other minor changes were also proposed as shown in the Appendix to the report.
RESOLVED to recommend to the County Council to accept the proposed changes and to authorise Officers to make any consequential amendments to the Constitution.