Issue - meetings

Following the trigger for a full Council debate being reached, this report sets out the details of the Petition and the procedure for its debate.

Council received a petition, entitled “Planning strategy in light of the governments housing building targets” which had met the threshold for Council debate (receiving a total of 1,815 valid signatures) and had been accepted under the requirements of the Council’s Petition Scheme.  Details of the Petition were set out at Annex 1 to the report.

In line with the Council’s general rules of debate and the Petition Scheme, the petition organiser was given 5 minutes to present the petition and Chairman of Licensing & Planning Policy Committee responded to the Petition.

The meeting was then opened to debate and concluded with a final reply from the Chairman of Licensing & Planning Policy Committee.