Items withdrawn from the Agenda
Minutes:
Items withdrawn from the Agenda
Minutes:
It was
noted that following advice from the Council’s Monitoring
Officer, it was the recommendation of the Head of Planning and
Development that applications 18/506656/FULL (Popesfield, Bearsted
Road, Weavering, Kent) and
18/506609/OUT (Newnham Park, Bearsted
Road, Weavering, Kent) should not be
determined until after the local elections on 2 May 2019 due to
their controversial nature.
The
Chairman said that taking all matters into consideration, the
difficulty in drawing a line as to what constituted
“controversial” and based on case law, it was his view
that the Committee should proceed to determine these applications
at the meeting. All commentaries legal
and otherwise stated that provided a decision maker takes into
account only matters that are material that decision cannot be open
to question. The Committee had been
careful over the years to make its planning decisions based only on
material planning considerations. In
the unlikely event that it did not, the Council had procedures in
place to deal with that.
Since
no Members indicated that they considered that these applications
should be withdrawn from the agenda, the Chairman said that the
Committee would proceed to determine the applications at the
meeting.