Planning Committee
The planning committee is responsible for making decisions on the bigger and more sensitive planning applications received by the council. For more information on types of planning applications that will be decided by the planning committee:
- View our next committee dates and reports on applications to be determined by committee
- View previous committee reports on applications to be determined and minutes for 2007/08
- View previous committee reports on applications to be determined and minutes for 2006/07
- View previous committee reports on applications to be determined and minutes for 2005/06
- View previous committee reports on applications to be determined and minutes for 2004/05
- View the Scheme of Delegations webpage.
- Search for decision notices
- View committe public speaking procedure
The committee usually meets every 3rd Tuesday evening at 5.30pm in the Council House, Lichfield Street, Walsall.
The committee is made up of 20 councillors, one from all the wards in the borough. The remaining applications are determined by the Head of Planning and Building Control, under delegated powers.
You are welcome to attend this committee and listen to the debate, or you can book yourself in to speak directly to the councillors who make the decisions on planning applications. Please take a look at the planning committee public speaking procedure.
If you decide to attend the planning committee, copies of the agenda will be provided. In this there are reports of the planning applications that are to be decided at that meeting.
Not all of the reports are discussed in detail. Only those applications that have public speakers and where members of the committee need clarification of the issues raised in the report are usually discussed before a decision is made.
Sometimes decisions on applications are deferred so that further information can be obtained or if the committee want to visit the site before making a decision on an application.
This page was last updated on 02 September 2008