The committee makes strategic planning decisions as
follows:
• The implications of major developments outside of
Wiltshire that could have an impact on local
residents.
• To consider the following categories of
applications for planning permission:
- Large-scale major
developments (defined by the Department for Communities and Local
Government as those of 200 houses or more or 10,000 square metres
of non-residential floor space) which, by their nature, (e.g.
scale, location etc.) have wider strategic implications and raise
issues of more than local importance
- Planning applications for mineral extraction or waste disposal,
other than small scale works which are ancillary to an existing
mineral working or waste disposal facility
- Significant applications by Wiltshire Council to develop any
land of Wiltshire Council, or for development of any land by
Wiltshire Council or by Wiltshire Council jointly with any other
person (Regulation 3 applications)
- Applications which, if approved, would represent a significant
departure from the policies of the statutory development plan,
where they are recommended for approval
- Applications called in by a division-member that cross the
boundary of two area committees
- Any application where the director of the development service
considers it inappropriate to exercise delegated powers having
regard to the public representations received and consultee responses
- Consider documents relating to the Local Development Framework
and advise Cabinet where appropriate.
There shall be no referral up of applications to the Strategic
Planning Committee from the area planning committees.