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Planning and Infrastructure Bill sets out radical shake-up of committee system
Legislation would see government dictate which types of applications can be determined by councillors
The role of council planning committees would be curtailed and a new strategic planning system instituted across England under legislation introduced to parliament today (11 March).
The Planning and Infrastructure Bill would introduce a national scheme of delegation, previously mooted by the government, which would set out which types of applications should be determined by planning officers and which should go to committee.
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