Role Description
The Role
Planning Committee members must be able to operate in a high profile, publicly accountable environment, ideally will be qualified town planners, and need to have already proved themselves at a senior level in the housing, development, legal, planning or regeneration sectors.
The Planning Committee will be determining high profile, often very large, residential, commercial and industrial planning applications as well as informing OPDC’s development of planning policies. Over the next year we expect the committee to be determining residential led mixed use developments on Scrubs Lane to the east of the OPDC area, residential applications for sites that sit around the HS2 works site industrial intensification applications for multi-level industrial in Park Royal and applications relating to details with regard to the HS2 Station and associated developments. These applications are likely to amount to approximately 1,000 residential units and 75,000 sq.m. of industrial intensification.
OPDC has recently submitted its Local Plan modifications to the Planning Inspector and details of these changes can be found on the Board paper link below: