The Planning Advisory Group was established in 2014 at the request of the Parish Council, following a recommendation of the Parish Plan aimed at strengthening the Council’s response to planning applications referred for consultation by Suffolk Coastal District Council. The group comprises members of the Planning Working Party with professional knowledge and experience of planning and architecture. The group’s brief has been to assess planning applications against national and local planning policy and to report to the Parish Council. The reports are published as appendices to the Council minutes. In the period from September 2014 to the suspension of the Parish Council in June 2015, PAG examined eleven applications. In every case the group’s comments were incorporated into the Council’s response to SCDC. In addition, at the request of the Parish Council, PAG also participated in SCDC’s Local Plan Review. Its reports can be found on the Council’s website. The work of PAG ceased in June when the Council became inquorate. Since that date, 17 planning applications have been referred, including eight relating to buildings, which have been or will be determined without comment from the Parish Council. Nor, until the position is reversed, can the Council participate further in the Local Plan review or the intended review of the Conservation Area boundary in 2016.