Our responsibilities
There will be no Planning Committee in April due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The next monthly Planning Committee meeting is scheduled for Tuesday 5th May 2020 and the schedule of applications will be published on the Council’s website www.ardsandnorthdown.gov.uk/planning on 22 April 2020. However, this meeting is also liable to cancellation as events progress.Committee Meetings are normally held in the Council Chamber at 2 Church Street, Newtownards on the first Tuesday of each month and commence at 7:00pm.
We are responsible for delivering planning functions in Ards and North Down. This involves:
- receiving and making decisions about most planning applications
- enforcing planning control where there are breaches of planning permission
- making tree preservation orders
- protecting and preserving built heritage
- producing a local development plan outlining how land should be used and developed in the future
Enforcement
Our enforcement strategy explains:
- how we investigate written complaints about planning breaches
- enforcement action we can take