Commitment to Service Improvement
The council will continuously try to improve planning services by engaging with the development industry through workshops, meetings, forums, and reviews to meet this aspiration.
The council will deliver training to elected members and in particular members of planning committees to support quality, and timely decision making the council will look for innovation and seek out best practice from other authorities to improve the development management process in the interests of expeditious decision making.
The council will invest in its staff, providing them with support and training to ensure competency and ensure their skills and knowledge is current. This will allow for better use of time for both officers and agents.
Council departments need to be adequately resourced to be capable of delivering service requirements.
The development community must respect the professional opinion of officers. The council will seek to deliver consistency of approach.
A template Section 106 agreement should be utilised.
‘One Opportunity’ process for all applications. If it's possible to make an amendment to an application to make it acceptable, clear advice will be given as to how to best to achieve this. There will be only one opportunity to amend the proposal after this a decision will be made. If the proposal is principally unacceptable it will be refused.
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Planning Enquiries
DM Business Support
