Day 1_Seminar_Planning Committee Survey Results Jan2025_web.pptx

Modernising Planning Committees. Top Ten success factors for committees.

1. Findings from PAS Planning Committee Survey PAS Conference February 27th

2. Gather data and generate a national picture of how Planning Committees operate Ultimately to make some best practice and tools for both officers and councillors Questionnaire via MSForms (designed to be not too onerous) Open from start of Oct to end of December 122 Responses Mixture of Officer (78%) and Member (22%) responses Planning Committee Survey

3. 21% of councils responding have more than one committee 51% of them operate a Strategic Committee model

4. Number of Members exceeds 12 Number of agenda items exceeds 7 Length of meeting exceeds 4 hours 3%

5. 75% of respondents have all of the following A single Planning Committee made up of 9 – 12 members Planning Committee is held once a month The agenda is 4 or less items The meeting last 3hours or less A delegation rate of over 90% 3% of respondents have all of the following A single Planning Committee made up of over 15 members Planning Committee is held once a month The agenda is 5 items or more The meeting lasts 4hours or more Overall Conclusions and Next Steps

6. A deeper dive into the qualitative responses Follow up with interesting responses Provide detailed self-help guidance on our website based on the survey results and our discussions with councils Next Steps

7. Q and A