CAIRNGORMS NATION­AL PARK AUTHORITY

Form­al Board Paper 6 — 6^th Decem­ber 2019

FOR DECISION

Title: REVIEW OF PLAN­NING COM­MIT­TEE STAND­ING ORDERS

Pre­pared by: DAV­ID CAMER­ON, DIR­ECT­OR OF COR­POR­ATE SER­VICES GAV­IN MILES, HEAD OF PLAN­NING & COMMUNITIES

Pur­pose

This paper presents a minor modi­fic­a­tion to the Plan­ning Com­mit­tee Stand­ing Orders last agreed by the Board on 20 Septem­ber 2019 to cla­ri­fy a poten­tial point of con­fu­sion. The paper fol­lows agree­ment of the modi­fic­a­tion by the Plan­ning Com­mit­tee at its meet­ing on 11 Octo­ber 2019.

Recom­mend­a­tion

The Board is asked to:

a) Approve the change to Plan­ning Com­mit­tee Stand­ing Orders agreed by Plan­ning Com­mit­tee on 11 Octo­ber 2019 and set out with this paper.

Back­ground

1. The Board agreed revised Stand­ing Orders for oper­a­tion of the Cairngorms Nation­al Park Author­ity Plan­ning Com­mit­tee at its meet­ing on 20 Septem­ber 2019. https://​cairngorms​.co​.uk/​r​e​s​o​u​r​c​e​/​d​o​c​s​/​b​o​a​r​d​p​a​p​e​r​s​/​2​0​0​9​2​0​1​9​/​1​9​0​9​2​0​C​N​P​A​B​d​P​a​p​e​r​M​a​t​t​e​r​s​A​r​i​s​i​n​g​P​l​a​n​n​i​n​g​S​t​a​n​d​i​n​g​O​r​d​e​r​s​R​e​v​i​e​w​C​o​v​e​r.pdf

2. Fol­low­ing the adop­tion of the Stand­ing Orders, it became appar­ent that a read­er could inter­pret the exten­sion of the peri­od when requests to speak at Plan­ning Com­mit­tee could be made to provide an oppor­tun­ity to do so without hav­ing already made a val­id writ­ten rep­res­ent­a­tion. This was not the inten­tion of the Stand­ing Orders, as the oppor­tun­ity to request to speak at the Plan­ning Com­mit­tee meet­ing has always been in order to rein­force a val­id writ­ten rep­res­ent­a­tion, not as an altern­at­ive route to mak­ing a representation.

Sum­mary of Amend­ment to Cur­rent Stand­ing Orders

1. To pre­vent any con­fu­sion, we recom­mend an addi­tion­al line be inser­ted to the Stand­ing Orders to cla­ri­fy this point defin­it­ively. The addi­tion­al line is under­lined and in bold in the sec­tion below. The first line of Sec­tion 11 on oral rep­res­ent­a­tions would now read:

“In rela­tion to the determ­in­a­tion of applic­a­tions called-in by the CNPA, any applicant/​agent/​supporter, object­or and Com­munity Coun­cil, who has made a val­id rep­res­ent­a­tion on a plan­ning applic­a­tion qual­i­fy­ing under Sec­tion 9 of these Stand­ing Orders, who wish to make oral rep­res­ent­a­tions to the Com­mit­tee in respect of an agenda item must request to do so in writ­ing and/​or by email to plan­ning offi­cial at the Cairngorms Nation­al Park Author­ity”

The Stand­ing Orders would remain identic­al in all oth­er respects to those approved by the Board on 20 Septem­ber 2019.

Gav­in Miles 27 Novem­ber 2019 gavinmiles@​cairngorms.​co.​uk