Member

My Amendment 135HZF seeks to reduce the bureaucratic burden currently placed on local authorities. Under existing best practice, planning applications submitted by a local planning authority or by related parties such as councillors or senior officers, must be referred to the planning committee. Even where the proposal is very minor and in normal circumstances would be determined by an officer, it has to go to committee. For instance, a proposal to put a sun blind on a school has to go to committee. This is a significant waste of resource and time, as a number of minor applications go unnecessarily before the committee.