Burghclere Parish Council’s Planning Working Group (PWG) has primary role of representing the Parish Council in planning matters referred to it by BDBC or other authorities. Details of planning applications or appeals for consultation will normally be received via email to the Clerk, who will then circulate to the Planning Working Group for initial review, prior to being considered at a full Council meeting.
Applications requiring a response prior to the date of the next ordinary meeting will be shared with the Planning Working Group for initial assessment, after which details will be sent by the Clerk to all councillors via email and, where no queries arise, the Clerk is delegated to inform the LPA within the time allocated of the decision of the Council. However, where queries from other councillors arise that merit wider deliberation the Chair (or Vice Chair) will call for an Extraordinary Meeting to decide upon the application.
The Working Group will consist of 3 Parish Councillors, who will be appointed at each Annual General Meeting, or more frequently should a vacancy arise. Should one or more members be unavailable, any parish councillor that is available may be invited to consider an application until such time as the Working Group returns to full strength.
The Planning Working Group’s terms of reference can be found here: Planning Working Group Terms of Reference as approved 1st July 24.
Planning applications and comments can be found here.