Our responsibilities
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.
The next Planning Committee will take place on Tuesday 3rd August 2021 at 7pm. This will be an in-person meeting and will be held in the Queen's Hall, Newtownards.
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