The Role of a Parish Council on Planning Matters.

The role of the Parish Council (PC) is to represent local views and should:

• Provide local knowledge.
• Raise areas of concern.
• Inform, debate, and add value to the process.
• Contact and involve District Councillors if required.
  
  

Parish Councils (PC) are statutory consultees in the planning process and must be informed of all planning applications, and any amendments to those applications, within the parish. The PC can only comment on these planning applications in the same way as any other member of the public, however, any comments by the PC must be agreed during a properly called public council meeting.


Planning applications are listed on the Wakefield District Council's Planning Portal