Issue - meetings
Response to the Planning Advisory Service (PAS)
Review of Planning Committee Decision Making
Meeting: 24/03/2026 - Overview and Scrutiny Committee (Item 8.)
8. Response to the Planning Advisory Service: Review of Planning Committee Decision Making 
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Report of the Assistant Director Planning.
To advise the Committee on how the Council is responding to the Planning Advisory Service (PAS) Review of Planning Committee Decision Making.
Recommendations
The Overview & Scrutiny Committee
resolves:
1.1 To note the work in progress in responding to the PAS recommendations and advice.
1.2 To identify any comments for consideration by the Executive.
Additional documents:
- Appendix 1 - PAS Review of Decision Making, August 2025, item 8.
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- Appendix 2 - PAS Review of Planning Committee Decision Making:, item 8.
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- Appendix 3 - Indicative Performance – Quality of Decision Making, item 8.
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- Webcast for Response to the Planning Advisory Service: Review of Planning Committee Decision Making
Decision:
Resolved
(1) That the Response to the Planning Advisory Service: Review of Planning Committee Decision Making report be noted.
(2) That Executive be advised that Overview and Scrutiny support the suggestion from PAS that consideration be given to dispensing with the questions stage before a debate (para 6.1 of the PAS report)