Thurrock planning process is well on the road to improvement says latest peer review
A PROGRAMME to improve Thurrock Council's planning function is making good progress according to a peer review.
Members of the review team revisited the authority in late January this year after carrying out a review of planning in Thurrock in late 2023.
They were looking into what progress had been made based on recommendations they made following their review.
They said that good progress had been made across all 11 recommendations they had made in their original Planning Peer Challenge report, highlighting that in several areas improvements have gone "above and beyond" their recommendations.
The peer review team have said that there are still challenges for planning including increasing the supply of local housing, delivering the borough's Local Plan and continuing to build on the successes already made to improve the confidence of stakeholders they work with.
Cllr Lee Watson, Cabinet member for Good Growth, said: "It is fantastic to get acknowledgement that the council planning function is making and we have taken the advice received to heart and put tangible measures in place to make real and visible improvements in planning.
"Although the review team say there is still work to do they have been highly complimentary about the improvements that have taken place as say that both the planning team and the members who sit on the planning committee should take confidence from what they have achieved already to build on for the future."
Two documents produced in the wake of the latest visit, to be considered by the council's cabinet at its meeting next Wednesday (7 May) are:
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