Issue - meetings

A Peer Review of the Planning Decision Making Process was carried out by the Local Government Association in July 2018 at Annexe 1.  This followed an action from the current Planning Service Plan 2018/19.  The Review also included a review of customer engagement within the Planning Service following adoption of the Development Management Improvement Plan in 2018.

The report summarises the findings of the Review and its recommendations.  It includes a draft action plan at Annexe 2 which seeks to address the recommendations of the Review.  An All Member Workshop  was held in December 2018 intended to elicit views from Councillors in relation to the draft Action Plan.  The feedback from that Briefing is attached at Annexe 3.

Recommendation

That the Executive notes the actions arising from the Peer Review recommendations, which have been subsumed into the Planning Service Plan for 2019/20.

88.1     Cllr Kevin Deanus introduced the Action Plan that had been developed in response to the findings and recommendations of the LGA Peer Review into Planning Decision-taking and Stakeholder Engagement undertaken in 2018. The action plan had been discussed at an all-Member briefing, and again at the Environment Overview & Scrutiny Committee. The Overview & Scrutiny’s comments were set out within the agenda report.

88.2     The actions set out in the action plan had now been subsumed into the Service Plan for the Planning Service for 2019/20, which was on the Executive agenda for approval.

88.3     The Executive thanked the Environment Overview & Scrutiny Committee for their observations and RESOLVED to note the actions arising from the recommendations of the Review of Planning Decision-taking and Stakeholder Engagement, which had been subsumed into the Planning Service Plan for 2019/20.

[Reason: to agree the actions identified to respond to the recommendations of the Planning Peer Review team.]