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Regional Planning Board

The core activities of the Assembly are carried out through three functional Boards dealing with housing, planning and transport. They will have full operational responsibility for their area of activity, and are accountable to the Regional Executive Board.

The Regional Planning Board is responsible for delivery of the Yorkshire and Humber Plan.

It is responsible for building and maintaining good and productive relationships with bodies and organisations in the region responsible for providing planning and related services, in particular by working with the Regional Planning Forum – that engages all local authorities and a wide range of regional stakeholders.

The Board has effective senior level relationships with Yorkshire Forward, the Regional Development Agency, Government Office Yorkshire and Humber and a range of government sponsored and other bodies and organisations providing services related to planning (and with an impact on the Plan) in the region.

It has effective relationships beyond the region working across the North, with other English Regions, with national Government and with European and International bodies and institutions in relation to the delivery of planning and spatial strategy issues.

The Board will meet three times this year. All meeting agendas, papers and minutes are available from the links on the left.

Meeting dates for 2008/09:

Because of the tight (21 day) deadline for Assembly responses to consultations on planning applications and a six-week deadline for commenting on local development framework consultations, formal arrangements to take decisions outside the cycle of Board meetings will be agreed by the Board.

The Chair of the Regional Planning Board for 2008/09 is Cllr Peter Box from Wakefield Metropolitan District Council. The Deputy Chair is Cate Hammond from the Regional Environment Forum.