Meetings will be accessible online. Please
email constitutional.team@southwark.gov.uk for
details, or check the meeting page via “Browse meetings and
agendas for this committee” link above.
For agendas and minutes of the Planning Committee
prior to May 2023, please click the following link:
https://moderngov.southwark.gov.uk/ieDocHome.aspx?XXR=0&Year=-1&Page=1&Categories=-13673&EB=F
Role and functions of Planning Committees
(Major Applications)
- To comment on local
development framework documents in respect of all significant
planning matters and make recommendations to the
cabinet.
- To consider the
future process by which the decisions with respect to planning
applications are to be taken.
- To
consider and determine all the following applications:
o strategic and major planning
applications (as defined in the matters reserved to the
committee)
o designation of conservation
areas including the adoption of conservation area character
appraisals and detailed design guidance
o any other planning
responsibilities of the authority created by statute (and delegated
to the committee).
- It is the
responsibility of the planning committees
(major applications)to consider
strategic and major planning applications and other matters
reserved as defined in the constitution.
- Where appropriate to
hear and consider the case for the applicant either by way of
written or oral representation and consider objections and
representations to the application from authorised persons and
interested parties or their designated representatives.
- To consider
expenditure of section 106 monies.
- To comment on
national and regional consultation documents proposing significant
changes to strategic planning policies and make recommendations to
the cabinet.
Matters reserved for decision by the Planning Committees (Major
Applications)
- Consideration of the
following categories of planning applications (including listed
building consent, conservation area consent and advertising
consent), where the development
proposed involves the creation of 50 or more housing units or more
than 3,500m2 of commercial floor space or a mixed use development
with more than 3,500m2 of floor space, including applications for
change of use, or the application is clearly linked to another
application which is to be considered by one of the planning
committees (major applications):
a. those which are
significantly contrary to the provisions of the local development
framework approved by the council for the purpose of development
control, and which are recommended for approval.
b. those which are
controversial, i.e. subject to 5 or more relevant objections (a
“relevant objection” is defined as any objection except
an objection which clearly does not raise any material planning
considerations) or raise a major issue of a planning nature
except:
i.
where in the opinion of the appropriate chief
officer the objection can be overcome by the imposition of an
appropriate condition, or
ii.
where the application clearly complies with the
relevant planning policies, in which case the decision may be taken
by officers, or
iii.
where the application is a straightforward
refusal.
c. those requested by two
councillors to be determined by elected members, subject to the
request being agreed by the chair of the planning
committees (major
applications) in consultation with the appropriate chief
officer.
d. applications for the
council’s own developments which are controversial, i.e.
subject to 5 or more relevant objections (a “relevant
objection” is defined as any objection except an objection
which clearly does not raise any material planning
considerations).
e. those involving legal
agreements, other than those in accordance with policy
requirements, e.g. affordable housing, highway improvements,
environmental work and other works required as part of a
development proposal.
- To consider the
expenditure of funds over £100,000 of strategic importance
secured through legal agreements under section 106 of the Town and
Country Planning Act 1990, or any previous legislation.
- The designation of
conservation areas including the adoption of conservation area
character appraisals and detailed design guidance, and
authorisations under article 4 of the Town and Country Planning
Permitted Development Order 1995.
- To consider and
determine all planning applications of strategic importance in the
borough, including:
a. applications which
require referral to the Mayor of London
b. applications which are
required to be notified to the Secretary of State as departures
from the development plan document (including the unitary
development plan)
c. applications where the
submission of an environmental impact assessment is required by
regulation or following a screening application
d. applications for the
development of metropolitan open land
e. applications for the
development of contaminated land
f. specific
applications not covered by the above but determined as strategic
by the appropriate chief officer.
- To comment on drafts
of the local development framework during their consultation
periods and make recommendations to the cabinet, as
appropriate.
- To comment on draft
supplementary planning documents during their consultation periods
and make recommendations to the cabinet, as
appropriate.
- To report to the
cabinet on matters relating to the implementation of planning
policy.
- To comment on
national and regional consultation documents proposing significant
changes to strategic planning policies (e.g. London Plan, Cross
River Tram) and make recommendations on the council’s
response to the cabinet, as appropriate.
- To consider planning
enforcement cases where the appropriate chief officer decides that
the matter is of a strategic or controversial nature and should be
referred to the committee to consider and determine the taking of
enforcement steps.
Planning committee
(major applications)meetings take place
in the council offices at 160 Tooley Street, London SE1 2QH unless
indicated otherwise.