Agenda and minutes

There were no apologies for absence.

There were no declarations of interest.

The Chair, Councillor Green, welcomed everyone to the meeting.  He explained that no person present would be entitled to speak other than the Members of the Local Review Body (LRB) and Mr Jackson, who would provide procedural advice if required.

Having noted that the Roads Department had not received an opportunity to comment on the Notice of Review Request, the Chair invited Mr Jackson to address the LRB in this regard. 

Mr Jackson outlined the procedure that is followed upon receipt of a Notice of Review Request and advised that while the information was provided to the Roads Department as a Statutory Consultee in respect of this case, it had been sent to an email address which was no longer monitored.  He advised that following the outcome of the first calling, the Planning authority had sought feedback from the Roads Department in order to prepare the draft conditions as requested, and it became apparent at this point that the Roads Department were unaware of the Request.  Mr Jackson advised that the Roads Department had since provided a response to the initial request, and outlined the procedure that should be followed should Members be so minded to accept it into the process at this stage. 

The Chair, Councillor Green asked whether Members felt it was appropriate to accept the response from the Roads Department at this stage in the process.

Both Councillors Irvine and McCabe advised that they did consider it appropriate to consider the input from Roads and that they would be happy to accept it at this stage in the process.

Having noted the wishes of the Local Review Body, Mr Jackson advised that in order to consider this information, the response from the Roads Department would be provided to the Applicant’s Agent, who would then have 14 days to comment.  He further advised that the responses from both the Roads Department and the Applicant’s Agent would form part of the Agenda pack for the next calling of the Local Review Body to consider the case. 

With no one being otherwise minded, this became the decision of the Local Review Body. 

Decision

The Argyll and Bute Local Review Body unanimously agreed to continue consideration of the Notice of Review Request to a future date, to be confirmed by Committee Services, to allow for the Roads response to be considered by the Applicant’s Agent and for the Applicant’s Agent to provide comments. 

(Reference:  Further written submissions from Planning Authority; Comments from Applicant and Comments from Interested Party, submitted)