Issue - meetings

COST OF PLANNING REPORT

Meeting: 19/06/2019 - Planning, Protective Services and Licensing Committee (Item 6)

6 COSTING THE PLANNING SERVICE IN SCOTLAND 2018 PDF 610 KB

Report by Executive Director – Development and Infrastructure Services

Additional documents:

hops-costing-the-planning-service-action-report-220219, 10/06/2019 Pre-Agenda Briefing of the Planning, Protective Services and Licensing Committee, item 6 PDF 140 KB

Minutes:

A report providing a summary of the key findings from the 2018 Costing the Planning Service Project was considered. This Project is a follow up to earlier studies ran by the Heads of Planning Scotland which Argyll and Bute Council participated in 2014. The Project aims were to provide detailed information on the cost of delivering planning services, particularly development management.

Decision

The Committee agreed, in any upcoming consultation, to adopt a position to lobby the Scottish Government for an uplift of planning fees to a level which would address the current shortfall in the cost of handling planning applications.

(Reference: Report by Executive Director – Development and Infrastructure Services dated 30 March 2019, submitted)