Planning

If you are submitting a planning application or know of one nearby that is likely to affect you, you are invited to attend a Parish Council meeting to give your views. To read about how planning applications are dealt with in August when the Parish Council doesn’t meet.

This will help the Council formulate a response to the planning authority.

The Parish Council is notified of all applications relating to the parish and is given the opportunity to comment on each one.

Planning applications are considered once a month – at full Council meetings (2nd Tuesdays).

All meetings are held in Copythorne Parish Hall (rear extension), starting at 7.00pm.

There is a public participation session at the start of the meeting.

More detailed information can be obtained in respect of individual applications by clicking on the appropriate link below or visiting the named planning authority’s web pages.

Links for individual applications Planning Authority web pages.

How Planning Applications/Tree Works requests are dealt with during August

Extract from Copythorne Parish Council Standing Orders:-

Standing Orders 15 xvi.

Any planning applications received after the publication of the July Council meeting agenda for which a Parish Response is required before the day after the holding of the September Council meeting shall be dealt with as follows:-

i) – The Clerk will prepare and forward to all Councillors, by e-mail, details of any planning applications that meet the criteria detailed described in the above paragraph and request that Councillors provide, by e-mail a minimum of five working days later (“the required date”), comments as per Parish Briefing Note response guidelines.

ii) – The Clerk will summarise those responses received by the required date and send that summary, by e-mail, to all councillors to obtain, subject to a quorum being obtained (three replies in total), agreement for a majority response (i.e. a 2-1 vote for a particular response would be sufficient) to the planning applications listed.

iii) – The Clerk will then notify the Development Control Team at New Forest National Park Authority or New Forest District Council (as appropriate) of the Parish Response(s) to the planning application(s) listed.

iv) – The Clerk will ensure that the Council’s responses in iii) above are reported to the September Council meeting and recorded in the minutes of that meeting.

If you wish the Parish Council to be aware of your comments about a particular planning application then you are welcome to send a copy of the response that you send to the Planning Department of the NFNPA or NFDC (as appropriate) to the Clerk.

By e-mail:- parishclerk@copythorne.org.uk

By post: David Rigby,
Copythorne Parish Council,
C/O 9 The Cleeves,
Totton,
Southampton,
SO40 8WL