Committee details
Area Planning Committee (North)
Purpose of committee
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:
- 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 Simon Wilson (Vice-Chair)
- Councillor Alan Bell
- Councillor David Boyes
- Councillor John Higgins
- Councillor Amanda Hopgood
- Councillor Charlie Kay
- Councillor Craig Martin
- Councillor Alan Shield
- Councillor John Shuttleworth
Contact information
Support officer: Lucy Gladders. 03000 269 712
Contacts
| Democratic Services Durham County Council County Hall Durham County Durham DH1 5UL | email: Tel: 03000 269 714 |