Town and Country Planning Act 1962

Planning committees

1A local planning authority may establish such planning committees as they think it expedient to establish for the efficient discharge of their functions as a local planning authority, and may authorise any such committee to exercise on their behalf any of those functions, except the power to borrow money or to levy or issue a precept for a rate.

2A planning committee of a local planning authority may, subject to any restrictions imposed by the local planning authority.—

(a)appoint such sub-committees constituted in such manner as the committee may determine ; and

(b)authorise any such sub-committee to exercise any of the functions of the committee on their behalf.

3A majority of every planning committee of a local planning authority shall be members of the authority, and a majority of every sub-committee of any such committee shall be members either of the local planning authority or of the councils of county districts comprised in the area of that authority.

4Any power conferred by this Part of this Schedule to establish or appoint committees or sub-committees, or to authorise such committees or sub-committees to exercise any functions, shall include power to dissolve or alter the constitution of such committees or sub-committees, and to revoke or vary any such authorisation.