Planning
EHL195
To serve Planning Contravention Notices under section 171C of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990.
EHL196
Serve Requisition for Information Notices under section 330 of the Town and Country Planning Act.
EHL197
In consultation with the Chair and Deputy Chair of the Planning Committee to consider and determine applications for grant assistance under the Authority's approved conservation grant assistance scheme.
EHL198
To take all necessary action with regard to the parking of caravans on unlicensed areas of the Borough.
EHL199
Following consultation with the appropriate ward councillors, to approve proposals for new or altered street names and/or numbering schemes for new and existing streets.
Planning Applications Exceptions
EHL200
Determine applications, notifications, consultations, discharge of conditions, screening and scoping requests, enforcement and all other matters within the terms of the Planning Committee (please see Part 3.5 of the Constitution) and in respect of High Hedge complaints under Part 8 of the Anti-Social Behaviour Act 2003, subject to the exceptions specified below:
Applications (other than those for the discharge and variation of conditions and extensions of time not including the discharge of reserved matters) for major development as defined for the purposes of the government PS2 statistical return i.e.:
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residential development of 10 or more dwellings or, where numbers not specified, the site area is more than 0.5 hectares;
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other development where the floor space is 1000 sq metres or more or the site is 1 hectare or more; and
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where a major development is subject to a change of use, it will be classed as a major development and not as a change of use
Mineral applications (other than those for the discharge of conditions) as defined for the purposes of the government PS2 statistical returns.
Applications which are a departure from the Development Plan and which would need to be notified to the Secretary of State under the Town and Country Planning (Consultation) (England) Direction 2009 (or any Direction replacing or re-enacting this Direction) if the Authority was minded to grant permission for them.
Applications which are subject to an objection from a statutory consultee (as defined in Schedule 4 of the Town and Country Planning (Development Management Procedure) Order 2015 (or any Order replacing or re-enacting this Order) which has not been resolved by negotiation or the imposition of conditions.
Applications for extensions to or change of use to gambling establishments (including amusement arcades, betting shops and casinos).
Applications (other than those for PS2 defined minor and other development or the discharge of conditions) submitted by or on behalf of the Authority for its own development which are the subject of objections which have not been resolved by negotiation or the imposition of conditions. g) Applications submitted by or on behalf of a North Tyneside Councillor or their spouse/partner.
Applications submitted by or on behalf of any member of staff of the Planning Team or any Head of Service or their spouse/partner or any member of staff directly involved in the progressing/determination of any application.
Applications classified as major or minor developments (as defined for the purposes of the government PS2 statistical return) where a Councillor, applicant or other person with a material planning interest has, within the statutory publicity period or prior to the determination of the application, requested in writing that the application be determined by Planning Committee and has also given substantial reasons why the application should be determined by Planning Committee and not under the Officer Delegation Scheme.
Applications for other developments (including householder developments, as defined for the purposes of the government PS2 statistical return) where a Councillor has, within the statutory publicity period or prior to the determination of the application, requested in writing that the application be determined by Planning Committee and has also given reasons as to why the application is so significant or contentious that it should be determined by Planning Committee and not under the Officer Delegation Scheme and that request has been accepted by the Chair and/or Deputy Chair of the Planning Committee.
Applications where written representations for and/or against a development proposal have been made and speaking rights have been requested and granted in accordance with the scheme for speaking at Planning Committee.
Applications that the delegated officer considers should be determined by Planning Committee, having regard to approved guidance on this matter.
This delegation can be undertaken by any post designated by the Head of Environment, Housing and Leisure, subject to that post being held by a member of the Royal Town Planning Institute of Planning Officer status or above and being senior to the specific case officer except where the delegation being exercised is for the discharge of planning conditions other than for the discharge of reserved matters.