Decision details

Further to Minute No. 118 of the meeting held on 2 September 2010, the Cabinet considered the report of the Environmental and Technical Services Director on the implications of amending the draft protocol to govern the lifting of the current moratorium on the siting of telephone transmission masts on Council owned land by including the Area Committees in the site selection and consultation process and by delegating to the relevant Area Committee the decision to authorise the use of Council land for the siting of telephone transmission masts.

This was a Key Decision and was included in the Council's Forward Plan of Key Decisions.

RESOLVED:   That

(1)            approval be given to the revised protocol set out in the report and to the delegation of decision making on the use of Council land for the siting of telephone transmission masts to the relevant Area Committee; and

(2)       the Council be recommended to amend Part 3 of the Council Constitution (Responsibility for Functions) by the inclusion of the following text:

            "AREA COMMITTEES - Specific Delegations

            Environmental and Technical Services

            1.  Determination of applications for permission to site mobile phone masts on Council owned land within the Wards covered by the Area Committee, in accordance with the Council's protocol."