Agenda item

MODERNISATION OF PLANNING AND HIGHWAYS AND CABINET HIGHWAYS COMMITTEES

Report of the Chief Executive on recommendations referred by the Cabinet at its meeting held on 20th March, 2013.

 

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RESOLVED: On the Motion of Councillor Leigh Bramall seconded by Councillor Bryan Lodge, that the following recommendations of the Cabinet at its meeting held on 20th March, 2013, concerning the modernisation of Planning and Highways and Cabinet Highways Committees, be approved:-

 

 

 

RESOLVED: that this Council:-

 

 

 

(a)       approves that, from May 2013, the existing two Area Planning and Highways Committees be combined into a single Planning Committee for the whole City; and

 

 

 

(b)       agrees that the digital presentation of planning application reports with an enhanced format be introduced at the first meeting of the new, modernised Planning Committee, following any pilot testing that officers deem necessary.

 

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