Issue - meetings

To consider an amended delegation to officers relating to the determination of planning applications (report of the Portfolio Holder – Corporate and Communications, and the Assistant Director – Governance, and Monitoring Officer enclosed).

Consideration was given to the report of the Portfolio Holder – Corporate and Communications, and the Assistant Director – Governance, and Monitoring Officer, which requested members consider an amended delegation to officers relating to the determination of planning applications.

DECISION:

1)    That the amended officer delegation detailed in Appendix B to the report be approved with immediate effect;

2)    That the Constitution be amended accordingly;

3)    That the Head of Planning be authorised, in consultation with the Leader, to re-apply the previous officer protocol/delegation (i.e. the protocol/delegation that applied from 13 May 2020 to 24 November 2021) if at any time legal restrictions made it impossible to hold both physical and virtual meetings of the Planning Committee due to Covid, such protocol/delegation to extend up to and including the date on which the agenda for the physical or virtual meeting was issued; and

4)    That the above delegation to the Head of Planning be applied as often as may be necessary.