Decision details

That the following comments be submitted to the Planning Strategy Group for consideration in forming a single response to Welsh Government on the proposed Draft National Planning Protocol:

1. No comments on the need for a National Planning Protocol
2. Dispensations should be included in the National Planning Protocol
3. If a Member submitted a planning application, contact should be made with the Monitoring Officer
4. Members to be clear as to whether they were speaking as a Member of the Planning Committee or as a local Member and if speaking as local Member a specific requirement to leave the Planning Committee area after they have spoken
5. The Committee did not consider that the requirement for a Member who had submitted an application should be precluded from the site visit