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Chair's Communications

Minutes:

3.1      The Chair of the Planning Committee stated the following:

 

Welcome everyone to Planning Committee. In our continuing battle against Covid, and in line with the protocol agreed by all group leaders, in addition to social distancing measures, masks are to be worn for this meeting. You are asked to continue to wear your mask while seated unless you are exempt. To assist those with hearing difficulties, closed captioning is on, and transparent visors are apparently available. If you’d like to use one, please inform one of the Democratic Services Officers.

 

I’d like to encourage everyone with an interest in planning in their area to sign up to our planning register. The planning register is designed to make it easier for people to find out about planning applications near to their homes and businesses, get involved with planning decision-making, and track the progress of their own planning applications.

 

You’ll receive regular updates on planning applications, you can set up alerts to let you know when comments are submitted or a decision has been taken and you can look up information about where planning applications are using a map of the area. To sign up, go to the planning section of our website at www.brighton-hove.gov.uk/planning-applications and select ‘find and comment on planning applications’.

 

It’s also worth noting that we publish new applications weekly on our planning web pages and this is highlighted on our social media, so look out for postings on the council’s Twitter and Facebook.

 

We have a packed agenda today, and we will give every application the attention it deserves. However, I will do everything in my power to ensure we finish in time for everyone who wants to, to get home to watch the England/Denmark semi-final. For me, that means wrapping up by five past seven at the latest. With that in mind, let’s get on with it.

 


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