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Audit Wales planning-service review documenting significant longstanding weaknesses in planning committee governance, unusually high rates of decisions contrary to officer advice, enforcement concerns, vacancy pressures, and transparency weaknesses. This is one of the core source records for the Planning Watch section.
Examines how planning decisions are governed. Records that 55.9% of Development Control Committee decisions went against officer advice in 2018–19 (Wales average 9.2%), and cites "significant longstanding weaknesses" in governance.