Your Local Borough Councillors and MP
Depending on the scale of the Planning Application, you may want to contact your local Borough Councillor and even your Member of Parliament to ask them to support you by objecting to the Planning Application.
Bracknell Forest Borough
Council usually makes the decision to allow or refuse planning
permission on all planning application within the Borough boundaries.
Professional Planning Officers working for the Council look at each
application and publicise it to neighbours and the relevant Town or
Parish Council.
If there are no objections raised then the Planning Officer makes a
decision based on the application submitted in light of the adopted
planning policies.
If there are more than
three objections, or if a local Borough Councillor makes a request,
the planning application will be decided instead by the Borough Council
Planning and Highways Committee, consisting of a number of Borough
Councillors advised by Planning Officers.
If their plans are refused, applicants have the right to make an appeal
to the government’s Planning Inspectorate who can overrule local council
decisions.
Your Member of Parliament is Adam Afriyie
Prior to the May 2010 general election Adam Afriyie commented on Bracknell Forest Council's proposals for the Northern Arc in Binfield:
"I have been fighting against the threat of insensitive overdevelopment across the constituency for many years. Having attended your Neighbourhood Action Group meetings and visited more than 3,000 doorsteps in your area so far, it seems to me that the some of these housing proposals could seriously undermine the character of a beautiful area."
