Group Director of Regulation & Director (Development Control) of the Planning Department

​Request 750563605  

Chief Planning Officer The Planning and Building Law (2002) Jersey in Article 1(1) includes: 

““Chief Officer” – 

(a) means the person appointed from time to time as the chief executive officer (or equivalent) of the administration of the States responsible for planning and building; and 

(b) when referred to in relation to the exercise of any function under this Law, includes any officer of that administration designated by the Chief Officer as carrying out that function;” 

A previous FoI request (#Request 687916000) resulted in a response which stated: 

“From 2019 to present the Group Director for Regulation acts as the Chief Planning Officer under the Planning and Building Law. This is a delegated power through a formalised Chief Officer decision (attached). “  

The FoI response states that it was authored on 15th March 2025. 

The response included links to 2 Ministerial Decisions dated in 2019 and 2020 concerning the result. The latter dated of these stated that the Ministerial Decision was: 

“In pursuance of Article 1(1) of the Planning and Building Law 2002 (as amended), the Chief Officer (Acting Director General) responsible for the administration of the Planning and Building (Jersey) Law 2002 designates the Director (Development Control) as the responsible officer for such decisions. “ 

1 

In light of the above please advise me which post currently has the delegated authority to “exercise of any function under this [Planning and Building (Jersey) Law 2002] Law. 

Please also provide me with: 

2 

Copies of the Job Descriptions for: 

• the Group Director for Regulation and 
• the Director (Development Control) 
  

3 

Copy of a current organisation chart for the Government Department which these posts are within. 

Response 

1 

The Post that currently has the delegated authority to “exercise of any function under the Planning and Building (Jersey) Law 2002 Law can be found within the attached documents.  

Freedom of Information response 750563605 - Attachment 1.pdf

Freedom of Information request 750563605 - Attachment 2.pdf​

Personal information within the documents has been redacted in accordance with Article 25 (Personal Information) of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011. 

2 and 3 

The Job description for the Group Director for Regulation and the Organisation Chart is shown in the attached.

The Director (Development Control) role does not exist; therefore, Article 3 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 applies. 

Articles applied 

Article 3 - Meaning of “information held by a public authority” 

For the purposes of this Law, information is held by a public authority if – 

(a)     it is held by the authority, otherwise than on behalf of another person; or 

(b)     it is held by another person on behalf of the authority. 

Article 25 - Personal information  

(1) Information is absolutely exempt information if it constitutes personal data of which the applicant is the data subject as defined in the Data Protection (Jersey) Law 2018.  

(2) Information is absolutely exempt information if – 

(a) it constitutes personal data of which the applicant is not the data subject as defined in the Data Protection (Jersey) Law 2018; and  

(b) its supply to a member of the public would contravene any of the data protection principles, as defined in that Law.  

3) In determining for the purposes of this Article whether the lawfulness principle in Article 8(1)(a) of the Data Protection (Jersey) Law 2018 would be contravened by the disclosure of information, paragraph 5(1) of Schedule 2 to that Law (legitimate interests) is to be read as if sub-paragraph (b) (which disapplies the provision where the controller is a public authority) were omitted. ​