This category is for understanding planning process rather than individual cases.
It covers how planning decisions are expected to be reached, including:
- the respective roles of officers and elected members
- how evidence, assessments, and consultee input should inform decisions
- how officer reports, committee debate, and resolutions interact
Discussion here focuses on process clarity — what should happen, in what order, and at what point matters are expected to be resolved.
This category is particularly useful where a decision outcome felt confusing or counter-intuitive, and the question is not what was decided, but how the decision was reached.