Planning Committee (including Former Development Management And Development Quality) - 19/10/2009

At a MEETING of the DEVELOPMENT QUALITY COMMITTEE held at Dundee on 19th October, 2009.

Present:-

BAILIES

COUNCILLORS

Bailie Roderick A J WALLACE, Convener, in the Chair.

The minute of meeting of this Committee of 21st September, 2009 was held as read.

Unless marked thus * all items stand delegated.

I PLANNING APPLICATIONS

(a) PARKVIEW CAR SALES, CHARLESTON DRIVE - PERMISSION FOR NINE ADDITIONAL CARS FOR SALE - FOR PARKVIEW CAR SALES

This item was withdrawn.

(b) 09-00466-FUL - BALLUMBIE ESTATE (PHASE 6), BERWICK DRIVE - ERECTION OF SIX HOUSES - FOR D J LAING

It was reported that a request had been received for a deputation to address the Committee in support of the above application.

After considering objections received, the Committee approved the application subject to the conditions recommended by the Director of City Development and, in the circumstances, declined to hear the deputation.

(c) THE KNOLL, 35 STRATHERN ROAD, BROUGHTY FERRY - FIRST FLOOR EXTENSION TO NORTHERN ELEVATION - FOR MR JAMAL

This item was deferred for one month.

II DEVELOPMENT QUALITY SERVICE - CUSTOMER SATISFACTION SURVEY RESULTS 2009

There was submitted Report No 490-2009 by the Director of City Development advising the Committee of the results of a Customer Satisfaction Survey in respect of the Council's Development Quality service which was undertaken between May and June, 2009 and seeking approval for appropriate improvements to the operation of the service as indicated in the report.

The Committee agreed to:-

(a) note the content of the report and approve the recommended actions as outlined in Appendices 1 and 2 to the report;

(b) agree that the report and a full statistical summary of responses be made available on the Council's website; and

(c) consider more appropriate mechanisms for gauging customer satisfaction, taking into account the relatively low level of response to the questionnaires issued.

III DELEGATED APPLICATIONS

There was submitted Agenda Note AN224-2009 reporting for the information of the Committee that in September, 2009, 30 applications had been decided under delegated powers. Four of these applications had attracted objections and of these four, one was refused and three were approved.

The Committee noted accordingly.

Roderick A J WALLACE, Convener.