Planning Committee

Planning Committees at North Norfolk District Council decide planning applications.

Following a reduction in planning applications as a result of the economic slowdown, the Council is to combine its two planning committees for a trial period from 1 January 2010.

The move will see the temporary creation of a Combined Development Control Committee consisting of all the District Councillors who previously sat on the Area Development Control Committees (East and West).  The Chairmen and Vice-Chairmen of the previous two Committees will share chairing duties at the Combined Committee meetings.

During the trial period, meetings of the new Combined Development Control Committee will take place at least every four weeks, subject to workload. At the end of the period a review will take place to decide whether the new committee format should be continued or whether to revert to the previous structure.

UPDATE
A new structure for the Development Control Committee has been agreed by the Council.  With effect from 8 July 2010, one Committee comprising fourteen Councillors will cover the whole of the North Norfolk District Council area.  The Committee will meet on a four-weekly cycle.

The trial Combined Committee arrangements will continue until the new Committee comes into effect.

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On each of the Committee pages below, you will find a link to the names of committee members, and a list of imminent or recent meeting dates. Click on the dates for the documents relating to those meetings.  From 2010 the results will be added to both the West and East Committee pages.  

• Development Control Committee for the West  of the district  (includes Combined Committee from 2010) 
• Development Control Committee for the East  of the district   (includes Combined Committee from 2010)

For any meeting you can view the following PDF documents:   

• Agenda documents - contain a summary of matters to be discussed at the meeting. The page numbers alongside headings, refer to pages in the report document where full details are shown.
• Report documents include:
  • Planning officer's full reports for planning applications to be decided by the committee, with recommended reasons for refusal or conditions to be attached to an approval, 
  • a list of applications determined by officers under delegated powers', 
  • information on appeals - new appeals, progress and decisions.
• Result documents - contain a list of decisions made at the meeting. These will appear soon after the meeting.
• Minutes documents -  include reasons for refusal and conditions attached to an approval, for committee decisions.   

The documents will appear on the website as follows:

• Agenda and Reports will appear one week before the meeting.
  
• The Results of the meeting will appear on the day following the meeting.
  
• The Minutes will appear on the day following the meeting at which they are approved, ie the minutes for the  Development Control meeting of 1st March will be available on 30th March, following approval at the meeting on 29th March.

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For dates and times of meetings, see the Programme of Council Meetings on the Council's Committees Page.

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Speaking at Meetings

The public are allowed to speak at the  Development Control Committee.  One person may speak for the proposal, and another may speak against the proposal.  A leaflet containing details of the system for public speaking at Committees is available at the Environmental Services Reception, or can be viewed or downloaded below:

• Have Your Say on Planning Applications or TPOs  (PDF 73KB)