Agenda and decisions

Members are asked to declare any interest and the nature of that interest which they may have in any of the items under consideration at this meeting.

To approve the minutes of the meeting held on 14 March 2024.

To receive communications from the Chair.

The Planning Policy Committee:

a)    Agreed that the Planning Service should agree to use Planning Performance Agreements (subject to them being authorised by the Assistant Director of Planning or Head of Development Management only).

b)    Agreed that fees be agreed with WNC finance team and set on a cost recovery basis.

The Planning Policy Committee:

a)    Approved the proposed consultation response to the DLUHC consultation (An Accelerated Planning System: closing on 4 May 2024) set out in the report and delegated to the Head of Development Management to return the consultation response on behalf of the Council.

b)    Noted the financial risks to the Council identified within the consultation response.

The Planning Policy Committee:

a)    Noted and welcomed the progress that had been made, and was being made, in producing Neighbourhood Plans across West Northamptonshire.

The Chair to advise whether they have agreed to any items of urgent business being admitted to the agenda.

In respect of the following items the Chairman may move the resolution set out below, on the grounds that if the public were present it would be likely that exempt information (information regarded as private for the purposes of the Local Government Act 1972) would be disclosed to them: The Committee is requested to resolve: “That under Section 100A of the Local Government Act 1972, the public be excluded from the meeting for the following item(s) of business on the grounds that if the public were present it would be likely that exempt information under Part 1 of Schedule 12A to the Act of the descriptions against each item would be disclosed to them”