Decision details

To consider a protocol for including Members in pre-application discussions.

Report.

RECOMMENDED that

1)         the protocol and information at Appendix 1 be adopted for use and added to the Constitution’s associated documents subject to the minor amendments noted in the preamble above (below for the purposes of this notice);

2)         the implementation of the protocol be reviewed jointly by Officers and Members after 12 months;

3)         training for all Members and Officers involved be provided; and

4)         the resultant amendments to the Constitution, proposed at Appendix 2, be adopted.

(Officers highlighted two minor amendments to be made to the Protocol:

Page 48 –   Criteria for Member Involvement in Pre-Application Planning Discussions – deletion of Point 4 as this factor was replicated elsewhere (Point 8) ; and

Page 49 –   Replacement of the words “Appendix Two” with “Section One” in the first sentence headed “Either”.)