Membership
When sitting as a Strategic Planning and Capital Project
Monitoring Panel, the Membership shall be comprised of 9 Members
including the Chair and Deputy of Speakers Panel (Planning) and the
Chair of the Carbon & Waste Reduction Panel.
Chairmanship
One Chair and one Deputy Chair shall be appointed from the
Controlling Group.
Quorum
The quorum shall be three Members.
Terms of Reference
The Strategic Planning and
Capital Project Monitoring Panel, appointed by the Council, and
comprised of all its Members, shall have delegated powers to deal with the
following:-
Capital Monitoring Project
1.
To be kept aware of the
latest developments regarding the Council’s capital
programme;
2.
To identify where
intervention in schemes may be required to ensure best outcomes are
achieved;
3.
To receive regular
monitoring reports on specific capital schemes;
4.
To request attendance from
budget holders (service managers and project managers) and
Executive Members to explain variations;
5.
To request that
specifications for capital projects are brought to the group for
scrutiny;
6.
To recommend areas for
further consideration; and
7.
To make recommendations to
Executive Cabinet and Council as to Capital projects and Capital
expenditure.
Planning
Within the framework of Council Policy, and having regard to
the Development Plan, Local Development Documents, other planning
guidance and development briefs approved by the Council, the Panel
shall exercise the Council's functions relating to town &
country planning & development control, the protection of
important hedgerows, the preservation of trees and the regulation
of high hedges set out in the Local Authorities (Functions &
Responsibilities)(England) Regulations 2000 (as amended). Most of
these functions are delegated to the Speakers (Planning) committee
and then onwards to the Executive Director or Head of Planning but
the following are reserved to the Strategic Planning and Capital
Monitoring Panel
1.
applications for Large Scale
Major Development, defined from time to time by DCLG.
Currently this includes:
-
residential developments of
200 dwellings or more, or 4 ha or more;
-
10,000 square metres or more, or 2ha.or more of retail,
commercial or industrial or other floorspace.
2.
Smaller scale major
applications contrary to Development Plan Policy;
3.
All significant applications
which would depart from Green Belt policy shall be referred to the
Strategic Planning and Capital Monitoring Panel for determination.
‘Significant' will be defined by the Executive Leader and
Chief Executive or their nominees;
4.
Planning applications for
major minerals (mining/quarrying) development;
5.
Planning applications for
waste disposal development;
6.
applications requiring
Environmental Impact Assessments
7.
applications involving a
significant departure from policy which a Planning Committee is
minded to approve;
8.
determination of Highway
orders relating to strategic matters, which are the subject of
objections received during the public consultation
process.
9.
applications referred from
Planning Committee; or
10.
any other matters which have
strategic implications by reason of their scale, nature or
location.
11.
Any other applications that
raise important issues which the Director or Head of Planning
considers should be determined by the Panel; or
12.
any other matters referred
up to it at the discretion of the Director or Head of
Planning.