To adopt an
updated ‘Local List’ (Dorset Council Planning Applications: National and
Local List of Validation Requirements) to set out the supporting
information that is required to be submitted alongside
planning applications. The updated list will take effect from 2
February 2026.
This
decision is taken under delegated powers, following consultation with
the Cabinet Member for Planning and Emergency Planning and
the Chairmen and Vice-Chairmen of the Council’s four planning
committees (as set out below). Paragraph 136 of the Officer Scheme of
Delegation (which forms part of the Council’s constitution) provides the
following delegated powers:
“To undertake all action in respect of administering / processing any application under any of the Town and Country Planning Legislation including the power to:
(a) determine whether any application has been validly made and/or whether to decline to register and/or determine any application including to decline to determine any application which s/he considers to be a repeat application, relating to an extant enforcement action and/or as a result of the submission of inadequate/insufficient information;
(b) determine what, and the extent
of, information required in respect of any application, including
any environmental impact assessment and/or any other assessment and/or report…”
This
delegated authority has been passed to me by the Local Scheme of
Nomination for Planning Services – Executive Director of Place.