Issue - meetings

The Committee considered and approved the ‘Your involvement in planning’ draft document for public consultation at the Licensing and Planning Policy Committee on 6 September 2016 (Minute 14 refers). The consultation commenced on 16 September 2016 and closed on Friday 28 October 2016.  The Committee are asked to agree the revised document, Your involvement in planning and recommend its’ adoption at Council

The document, Your involvement in planning, set out how the Council will engage with local community and organisations with regard to planning policy and development management.  It details how and when consultations will be carried out, and involvement of the community in both the preparation of planning policy documents and decisions on planning applications.

The draft document was approved for public consultation at the Licensing and Planning Policy Committee on 6 September (minute 14 refers).  The public consultation closed on 28 October and generated six responses.  The Committee received and considered a table of the responses from the public consultation and the revised Your involvement in Planning document incorporating a minor amendment made as the result of a comment made in the consultation.

The Committee noted that primary access to the Your involvement in planning document and the most likely method of communicating the process would be through the Epsom & Ewell website.  Members were informed that in order to ensure that no-one was disadvantaged, any issues arising from a member of the public not having access to the internet would be reported to the Chairman so that an alternative mechanism to engage with the process could be proposed.

Accordingly, The Committee agreed the revised document ‘Your involvement in planning’ and recommended that Council adopt it at the next available meeting.