The Area Planning Committee
(North) consists of 16 Members of the Council comprising 8 members
representing Electoral Divisions within the Committee’s area
and 8 other Members from the rest of the County excluding Members
of the Cabinet.
Area Planning Committees
have the following functions for their areas:
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Functions relating to Town
and Country Planning and Development Control as set out in Section
A of Schedule 1 to the 2000 Regulations unless those matters fall
within the remit of the County Planning Committee
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Power to make limestone
pavement order
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Powers relating to the
protection of important hedgerows
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Powers relating to the
preservation of trees
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Powers relating to
complaints about high hedges