Issue - meetings

[To consider a report on a review of the Planning Services Code of Practice.]

The Committee considered a report which recommended that the Council's Planning Services Code of Practice be reviewed and which sought suggestions from Members for areas for consideration for inclusion in the review.

Officers advised that the Association of Council Secretaries and Solicitors had recently updated the Model Members' Planning Code of Good Practice and that the Council's current Code was out of date.

RECOMMENDED:

(a)       that a review of the Council's Planning Services Code of Practice be undertaken by the Monitoring Officer in consultation with Group Leaders, the Planning Committee, the Standards Committee and individual Members; and

(b)       that the scope of the review also include the Planning Committee Procedure Rules contained within the Council's Constitution and the Public Speaking at Planning Committee Meetings guidance leaflet to see whether any aspects of these could be combined.