Issue - meetings

Notice of Motion: Planning Committee Update Reports

Meeting: 03/04/2013 - Strategic Planning Board (Item 172)

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To consider the Notice of Motion referred from Council on 28 February 2013

Minutes:

Consideration was given to the above report.

 

(Councillor D Brickhill attended the meeting and spoke in respect of the report).

 

RESOLVED

 

That as a matter of working practice:-

 

(1) Update papers which are issued after publication of the agendas for planning meetings will be produced by 5pm on the second working day before.

 

(2) The cut-off date for further comments that may be included in the written updates to Committee/Board will be 12 noon the second working day from the Committee/Board.

 

(3) Where it is necessary for written updates to be brought to the attention of Members before planning meetings, the application in question should only be determined where:

 

The Officers advise that it is necessary to do so in agreement with the Chair of the Committee/Board; and

 

Members of the Committee/Board agree that they and the public have had sufficient time to absorb the information in question; but

 

That in other cases, the Committee/Board should resolve to defer consideration of the application in question.