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 Allan Bainbridge
- Councillor David Bell
- Councillor Lyn Boyd
- Councillor David Boyes
- Councillor Geoff Darkes
- Councillor Amanda Hopgood
- Councillor Ivan Jewell (Chairman)
- Councillor Craig Martin
- Councillor Olga Milburn
- Councillor John Robinson
- Councillor Alan Shield
- Councillor John Shuttleworth
- Councillor Tanya Tucker
- Councillor Simon Wilson (Vice-Chairman)
- Councillor Sam Zair
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 |