Committee details
Area Planning Committee (Central and East)
Purpose of committee
The Area Planning Committee (Central and East) 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:
- 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
- Power to make limestone pavement order
- Powers relating to the protection of important hedgerows
- Powers relating to the preservation of trees
- Powers relating to complaints about high hedges
Membership
- Councillor Geraldine Bleasdale
- Councillor David Brown
- Councillor June Clark (Chair)
- Councillor Ivan Cochrane
- Councillor Katie Corrigan
- Councillor Bev Coult
- Councillor Mark Davinson
- Councillor David Freeman
- Councillor Alan Gardner
- Councillor Karen Hawley
- Councillor Sarah Iveson
- Councillor Audrey Laing (Vice-Chair)
- Councillor Richard Manchester
- Councillor John Robinson
- Councillor John Shuttleworth
- Councillor Paul Taylor
Contact information
Support officer: Martin Tindle. 03000 269 713
Contacts
| Democratic Services Durham County Council County Hall Durham County Durham DH1 5UL | email: Tel: 03000 269 714 |