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Neighbourhood Planning Update

 

 

Meeting: 02/09/2024 - Overview and Scrutiny Committee (Item 100)

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Purpose

To update Members of the Overview and Scrutiny Committee on the Council’s activity supporting parish-led neighbourhood plans across the district.

 

Recommendations

That the Overview and Scrutiny Committee  resolves to

1.    Notes the update

2.    Agrees any recommendations it wishes to submit to Cabinet on 5 September.

 

Invited

Councillor Juliet Layton, Cabinet Member for Planning and Regulatory Services

Joseph Walker, Community Partnership Officer

Additional documents:

Minutes:

In introducing the item, the Chair asked members to focus on the strategic aspects of it. The Chair stated that members should also be aware that the Stow-on-the-Wold and the Swells Neighbourhood Plan should not be discussed Neighbourhood Plan should not be discussed as it was liable to a the Council was in the pre-election period ahead of the referendum on 26 September 2024.

 

The purpose of the item was to update Members of the Overview and Scrutiny Committee on the Council’s activity supporting parish-led neighbourhood plans across the district.

 

The Cabinet Member provided a summary of the neighbourhood planning activity across the district since 2011 when the legislation had been introduced.

 

The Community Partnerships Officer explained that neighbourhood planning was liable to alter in light of the changes to the NPPF, though no explicit alterations were proposed at present.

 

Members discussed the report, raising the following points;

  • The report stated that there was little explicit guidance for creating neighbourhood plans but equally stated the importance of ensuring that a plan does not contradict a principal council’s local plan. The Community Partnership Officer explained that there was Government guidance focused on end results but this was not explicitly set in statute.
  • Some policy areas, such as water, were outside of the purview of neighbourhood plans, although plans could influence development.
  • Instances where neighbourhood plans might become out of date were discussed. The Community Partnerships Officer explained that some policy areas such as playing spaces would be slow to go out of date, but that they had regular communication channels with Town and Parish Councils that had made plans in order to review policy areas that may be out of date.
  • The Council had previously received a grant of £20,000 per plan to support with neighbourhood plans. Concerns had been raised over whether there would be any budget implications going forward. The Community Partnership Officer stated that further government funding was potentially coming forward, but that as the money had not been ring-fenced, there was still money in the short term.

 

RESOLVED: To note the update

 

 

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