Issue - meetings

Report to update members on the progress of current planning appeals.

Members received an update on planning appeal performance and were updated on new appeals received since the report was dispatched. It was also reported that the performance target had been exceeded.

It was requested that future reports highlight whether the original decision, if by members, was against officer recommendation and that the report contain numbers rather than percentages.

Some discussion ensued on who would pay to clean up sites following an illegal incursion. The difficulty of removing illegal encampments from sites where the landowner had given permission was also highlighted and it was requested that the Chief Executive contacts the MP to ask him to lobby for a change in legislation to enable removal regardless of whether or not the landowner had given permission for the incursion.

RESOLVED – the report be noted and the requested information be contained in future reports.