REMITS

Planning Committee

General. 

To provide the regular consultation and consideration process for planning applications forwarded by the relevant planning authority.  To comment on these applications and any other environmental/planning issues.

To maintain a watching brief on developments and activities relating to the Ashdown Business Park site.

To follow policies and guidance as may be adopted from time to time by Council.

To report on its business and on significant matters within its remit to Council as and when decided by Council.

Duties. 

To review all planning applications received by the Council. 

To review all Tree Preservation Orders notified to the Council and maintain a watching brief on trees subject TPOs.

To review all licensing applications

To represent the Council's views on the above to the relevant planning authority

To maintain a watching brief on all listed buildings, AONBs, SSSIs.

To advise the Parish Council on relevant consultations and changes to planning policies, legislation, regulation, consultations, and information e.g. PPG's, SPGs, Local and Structure Plans, Town & Country Planning, that may affect the Parish.

To review the commercial situation with regard to the owners of portions of the Ashdown Business Park site and take advice as necessary to enable viable courses of action to be put to Council to enable it to encourage a solution in the best interests of parishioners.

 Authority

To deal with issues within its remit, save where major decisions are required in which case the matter should be referred to Council for its approval. "Major decisions" is incapable of precise definition, but comprehends

·         Financial impact (by reference to absolute amount, departure from budget and risk)

·         Long-term impact

·         Parish-wide impact

·         Expectation of strong public feeling

[These are matters for judgement; often to be decided by the Chairman of a committee, or sometimes that chairman and the chairman of Council – each having in mind what they think Council would want.]

To sanction small items of expenditure (up to £500 any one item), but not exceeding in aggregate £2,000 in any year, in any case subject to the expenditure being within a budget heading in that year.