Planning Applications Panel: Appointment of Members

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A decision made 11 November 2014:

Decision Reference: MD- PE- 2014 – 0101
Decision Summary Title:	Planning Applications Panel: Appointment of Members		Date of Decision Summary:	04 November 2014
Decision Summary Author:	Planning Performance Manager		Decision Summary: Public or Exempt?	Public
Type of Report: Oral or Written?	Written		Person Giving Oral Report:	N/A
Written Report Title:	Membership of the Planning Applications Panel		Date of Written Report:	N/A
Written Report Author:	Planning Performance manager		Written Report : Public or Exempt?	Public
Subject: To appoint, in accordance with Article 9A(2) of the Planning and Building (Jersey) Law 2002 Members of the Planning Applications Panel until such time as the Planning and Building (Amendment No. 6) (Jersey) Law 201- comes into force
Decision(s): The Minister for Planning and Environment approved the Report and Proposition in relation to the membership of the Planning Applications Panel to enable it to be lodged ‘au Greffe’ for consideration by the States.
Reason(s) for Decision: The Planning and Building (Jersey) Law 2002 provides that there should be a Planning Applications Panel comprising up to 9 States Members; and that its members will be appointed by the States on the nomination of the Minister for Planning and Environment. The Planning and Building (Amendment No. 6) (Jersey) Law 201- will effectively replace the Panel with a Planning Applications Committee which will operate independently of the Minister for Planning and Environment and will be established in accordance with standing orders under Article 48(1) of the States of Jersey Law 2005.
Resource Implications: There are no additional resource implications as the Planning Applications Panel runs within existing mechanisms of the Department of the Environment and the States Greffe.
Action required: Request the Greffier of the States to make the necessary arrangements for the report and proposition to be lodged ‘au Greffe’ to enable the States to consider the membership of the Planning Applications Panel (PAP) in due course.
Signature:		Position: Minister
Date Signed:		Date of Decision (If different from Date Signed):