DRAFT Further Information - Procedure Notice
Renfrewshire Council · 26 March 2024
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Finance & Resources Director: Alastair MacArthur CPFA Head of Corporate Governance: Mark Conaghan LLB (Hons) Dip LP Renfrewshire House, Cotton Street, Paisley PA1 1TT www.renfrewshire.gov.uk PROCEDURE NOTICE OF RENFREWSHIRE COUNCIL LOCAL REVIEW BODY REQUEST FOR FURTHER INFORMATION Proposal: Erection of a single-storey dwellinghouse and associated works Location: at a site on the eastern boundary of No 2 Johnshill, East End, Lochwinnoch Application Type: Planning Permission Application Number: 23/0179/PP This Procedure Notice is given to the following: (1) Gwen McCracken Development Standards Manager of Renfrewshire Council Cotton Street Paisley The Appointed Officer (2) David Johnston Flat 0/2 174 Clarkston Road GLASGOW G44 4DN The Applicant At a meeting on 30 January 2024, Renfrewshire Council’s Local Review Body (the “LRB”) determined, in terms of Regulation 12 of the Town and Country Planning (Schemes of Delegation and Local Review Procedure) (Scotland) Regulations 2013 (the “2013 Regulations”) that the review documents before it did not provide sufficient information to enable it to determine the review of the above Planning Application. The LRB noted as a first preliminary matter, that a number of interested parties had submitted representations in respect of the proposal when it had first been considered and that following receipt of the Notice of Review, those interested parties had been contacted and advised that their representations would be considered by the LRB when determining the application and also invited to make further representations if they so wished. Thereafter a number of the interested parties had submitted further representations.
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Finance & Resources Director: Alastair MacArthur CPFA Head of Corporate Governance: Mark Conaghan LLB (Hons) Dip LP Renfrewshire House, Cotton Street, Paisley PA1 1TT www.renfrewshire.gov.uk On reading these further representations it could be considered that they potentially introduced matters that were not before the appointed officer when the appointed officer made the original decision. It was also noted that there was a general presumption, applicable to both the individual seeking review and any other party to the review, including interested parties, against introducing any matter that was not before the appointed officer when the original decision was made. It was highlighted that this restriction did not however apply where the new matter had been raised pursuant to a requirement or an entitlement to have regard to the development plan or any other material consideration. In accordance with Regulation 13 of the 2013 Regulations the LRB determined that the review should proceed by way of further written submissions and by means of an inspection of the land to which the review relates. This Procedure Notice which is given under and in accordance with Paragraph 15 of the 2013 Regulation, requires the appointed officer, by no later than 19 February 2024, a written submission to the LRB setting out what matters within the further representations received from interested parties that the officer considers were not before them when they made their decision and also, in the officer’s view, whether these had been raised pursuant to a requirement or an entitlement to have regard to the development plan or any other material consideration (the “Procedure Notice Response”) and must, by the same date, provide a copy of the Procedure Notice Response to the Applicant. The Applicant will be afforded a period of 14 days from receipt of a copy of the Procedure Notice Response to submit to the LRB written comments in reply to the Procedure Notice Response, and if doing so, must provide a copy of those comments to the Planning Authority. All responses may be sent electronically to the following email addresses: For the LRB: democratic-services@renfrewshire.gov.uk For the Applicant: info@chgarchitecture.com For the Planning Authority: gwen.mccracken@renfrewshire.gov.uk Following receipt of the further information requested and any comments submitted, the review application will be submitted to the next available meeting of the LRB. Notice will be provided to all parties in receipt of this Procedure Notice detailing the date and time of the meeting in due course.