The Joint Strategic Planning Unit was set up when the old Berkshire County Council was abolished. Our job is to support the minerals and waste local plans for the Berkshire area, and to provide a range of information services related to those tasks.
We are funded on an equal shares basis by all six of the all-purpose unitary local authorities which now serve the former Berkshire area (see Partners).
The Head of Strategic Planning and Transport is Stuart Hylton.
His e-mail address is stuart.hylton@rbwm.gov.uk
The Joint Unit is responsible to a Joint Strategic Planning Committee, made up of elected councillors from all six authorities. The Committee meets roughly quarterly (or more frequently, if circumstances require). Its meetings are open to the public and subject to all the other rules governing local government committees. It has powers to make decisions on all aspects of the work of the Unit.
Things the Unit does not do
The Joint Unit does not decide planning applications, including those relating to mineral extraction and waste disposal. It may however comment on the strategic consequences of a planning application. The Joint Unit does not produce local plans (other than those for mineral extraction and waste disposal) which identify specific sites for development. . Planning applications and identifying specific sites for anything other than mineral extraction and waste disposal are the responsibility of the individual unitary authorities.
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