Committee details

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