Hello, welcome to The Planning Committee Meets. I am Rosalind Achebe, I chaired a planning committee for three years, and this is the show where we open the papers most people never read. Today we have one application in front of us, a supermarket proposed for a council car park in a northern market town. There are 212 objections, 9 letters of support, a highways study that predicts 140 extra car trips an hour, and an officer's report of 48 pages. The planner who wrote that report is with me, and she will explain what a material consideration is, what she was allowed to weigh, and what she had to leave out, however loudly it was said in the public gallery. Then we will look at how the committee voted and why. Grab the agenda. You are listening on Witspeak Podcasts.