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 Jim Atkinson
- Councillor Beaty Bainbridge
- Councillor Gordon Binney
- Councillor Jan Blakey
- Councillor Liz Brown
- Councillor Mike Currah
- Councillor Kevin Earley
- Councillor Julie Griffiths
- Councillor Dominic Haney
- Councillor Carl Marshall
- Councillor Mike McGaun (Chair)
- Councillor Elaine Peeke
- Councillor John Purvis
- Councillor Joe Quinn
- Councillor Alex Watson (Vice-Chair)
- Councillor Simon Wilson
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 |