The remit of each Township Planning Sub Committee
is to deal with matters of development control (planning).
The Committee can grant
permission, with appropriate conditions if necessary, or refuse
permission. When making a decision, the Council must give
adequate reasons for its decision based on relevant planning
issues. Alternatively, the committee may decide to approve any application, or for
larger applications or applications affecting local residents, they
refer these to the Regulatory Committee for a final
decision.
All Township Planning Committee meetings are open
for the public to attend, if there is more than one objector to the
application then normally the Chairman of the Committee will allow
only one person to speak in view of the limited time available (5
Minutes per side). Consequently objectors may get together to make
a joint case covering all the points that each individual wishes to
make. The applicant will also have the opportunity to address the
Committee after the objectors have put their views. The members of
the Committee may ask questions of each speaker after they have
spoken. The Committee members will then debate the merits of the
application and make a decision.
