The Planning Board meetings
take place every three weeks on a Thursday at the Town Hall at 9.00
a.m. (unless a site visit takes place beforehand).
If you wish to speak on any
item under consideration by the Planning Board you will need to
contact the Case Officer in the Planning Service who is dealing
with the application. Details on the procedure for speaking at
Council follow and are below.
The Planning Board has the
following terms of reference in relation to non-executive planning
functions:-
1.
Power to determine
applications for planning permission – sections 70 (1) (a)
and (b) and 72 of the Town and Country Planning Act
1990.
2.
Power to determine
applications to develop land without compliance with conditions
previously attached – section 73 of the Town and Country
Planning Act 1990.
3.
Power to grant planning
permission for development already carried out – section 73A
(a) of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990.
4.
Power to decline to
determine an application for planning permission – section
70A of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990.
5.
Power to determine
application for planning permission made by a local authority,
alone or jointly with another person – section 316 of the
Town and Country Planning Act 1990 and the Town and Country
Planning General Regulations 1992 (S.I. 1992/1492).
6.
Power to make
determinations, give approvals and agree certain other matters
relating to the exercise of permitted development rights –
Parts 6,7,11,17,19,20,21 to 24,26,30 and 31 of Schedule 2 to the
Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) Order
1995 (S.I. 1995/418).
7.
Power to enter into
agreement regulating development or use of land –section 106
of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990.
8.
Power to issue a
certificate of existing or proposed lawful use or development
– sections 191 (4) and 192 (2) of the Town and Country
Planning Act 1990.
9.
Power to serve a
completion notice – section 94 (2) of the Town and Country
Planning Act 1990.
10.
Power to grant consent for the display
of advertisements – section 220 of the Town and Country
Planning Act 1990 and the Town and Country Planning (Control of
Advertisements) Regulations 1992.
11.
Power to authorise to authorise entry
onto land.
12.
Power to require the discontinuance of
a use of land – section 102 of the Town and Country Planning
Act 1990.
13.
Power to serve a planning
contravention notice, breach of condition notice or stop notice
– sections 171C, 187A and 183 (1) of the Town and Country
Planning Act 1990.
14.
Power to issue an enforcement notice
– section 172 of the Town and Country Planning Act
1990.
15.
Power to issue a temporary stop
notice.
16.
Power to apply for an injunction
restraining a breach of planning control – section 187B of
the Town and Country Planning Act 1990.
17.
Power to determine applications for
hazardous substances consent, and related powers – sections 9
(1) and 10 of the Planning (Hazardous Substances) Act
1990.
18.
Duty to determine conditions to which
old mining permissions, relevant planning permissions relating to
dormant sites or active Phase I or II sites, or mineral permissions
relating to mining sites, as the case may be, are to be subject
– paragraph 2 (6) (a) of Schedule 2 to the Planning and
Compensation Act 1991, paragraph 9 (6) of Schedule 13 to the
Environment Act 1995 and paragraph 6 (5) of Schedule 14 to that
Act.
19.
Power to require proper maintenance of
land – section 215 (1) of the Town and Country Planning Act
1990. 20. Power to determine application for listed building
consent, and related powers – sections 16 (1) and (2), 17, 27
(2) and 33 (1) of the Planning (Listed Buildings and Buildings in
Conservation Areas) Act 1990.
21.
Power to determine applications for
Conservation Area Consent – section 16 (1) of the Planning
(Listed Buildings and Buildings in Conservation Areas Act 1990, as
applied by section 74 (3) of that Act.
22.
Duties relating to applications for
Listed Building Consent and Conservation Area Consent –
sections 13 (1) and 14 (1) and (4) of the Planning (Listed
Buildings in Conservation Areas) Act 1990 and regulations 3 to 6
and 13 of the Town and Country Planning (Listed Buildings and
Buildings in Conservation Areas) Regulations 1990 and paragraphs 8,
15 and 22 of Department of the Environment Circular
14/97.
23.
Power to serve a Building Preservation
Notice, and related powers – sections 3 (1) and 4 (1) of the
Planning (Listed Buildings and Buildings in Conservation Areas) Act
1990.
24.
Power to issue an enforcement notice
in relation to the demolition of an unlisted building in a
conservation area – section 38 of the Planning (Listed
Buildings and Buildings in Conservation Areas) Act 1990.
25.
Powers to acquire a listed building in
need of repair and to serve a repairs notice – sections 47
and 48 of the Planning (Listed Buildings and Buildings in
Conservation Areas) Act 1990.
26.
Power to apply for an injunction in
relation to a listed building – section 44A of the Planning
(Listed Buildings and Buildings in Conservation Areas) Act
1990.
27.
Power to execute urgent works –
section 54 of the Planning (Listed Buildings and Buildings in
Conservation Areas) Act 1990.
28.
Powers relating to the preservation of
trees – sections 197 to 214D of the Town and Country Planning
Act 1990 and the Trees Regulations 1999 (S.I.
1999/1892).
29.
Powers relating to the protection of
important hedgerows – The Hedgerows Regulations 1997 (S.I.
1997/1160).
30.
Power to make limestone pavement
orders – section 34(2) of the Wildlife and Countryside Act
1981 (c. 69).

PLANNING REGULATORY BOARD
PUBLIC RIGHT TO SPEAK
REGISTERING TO SPEAK
The Council has a “Right to Speak”
policy, under which you may speak in the Planning Board meeting
about an application. If you wish to do this, it is important that
you complete a tear-off slip and return it with any written
comments, within 21 days of the date of the notification letter
back to the Planning Department.
Your comments will be made known to the
Planning Board when it considers the application and you will be
written to advising of the date and time of the Planning Board
meeting to exercise your right to speak
WHEN YOU ARRIVE
If you wish to speak in the meeting, please
try to arrive at the venue ten minutes before the meeting starts.
The reception staff will direct you to the Council Chamber.
In the Council Chamber, please give your name
to the Board Clerk (who will have a checklist of names derived from
the agenda). The Clerk will direct you to the seating reserved for
people who wish to speak.
The agenda is available on line at least five
days prior to the meeting, and a few copies will be made available
at the meeting, so you can read the reported relating to the
application which concerns you and see where it comes in the
agenda.
The Council Chamber is equipped with
microphones and a hearing loop
The meeting is being filmed for live or
subsequent broadcast via the Council’s website and can be
found at:-
https://rotherham.public-i.tv/core/portal/home
If anyone present or members of the public in
the public galleries do not wish to have their image captured they
should make themselves known to Democratic Services before the
start of the meeting.
This may require seating in a different area
of the Chamber or in an alternative viewing room (if
available).
Take time to familiarise
yourself with the layout of the Chamber and the
procedure.
YOUR RIGHT TO
SPEAK
The ‘right to speak’ applies
equally to the applicant and to the general public.
It is not intended that professional agents
representing either the applicant or objectors, should be allowed
to speak, but this is at the Chairman’s discretion.
You will be invited to speak by the Chairman
at the correct interval.
Switch the microphone on to allow everybody in
the Chamber to hear your comments.
Each speaker will be allowed three minutes to
state his/her case. The applicant does
not have a “right to reply” to the objector(s)
comments.
Only planning related comments can be taken
into consideration during the decision process.
CONDUCT OF COMMITTEE MEETINGS
Speakers should not be allowed to engage in
discussion with members of the Committee during public speaking or
the Committee deliberations, to avoid any risk of accusation of
bias or personal interest.
All attendees are reminded of the importance
to remain calm, courteous and respectful during the
meeting. Please refrain from shouting
out and allow people to speak.
Any person causing a disruption will be asked to leave the Council
Chamber.