Duties and actions
6.1 The Council's Planning Committee exercises the Borough Council’s statutory Local Planning Authority functions and is the decision maker for the purpose of determining applications other than those matters falling within the Council’s Scheme of delegation (see Part 3 of the Constitution)Decision makers have a very special responsibility and have a number of statutory duties. There are also actions that can be taken against the Council and Elected Members for a failure to properly discharge the Local Planning Authority function. These duties and actions are summarised in Appendix 2.