Issue - meetings

That Cabinet approve the District Council consultation response to the Southwell Amended Neighbourhood Plan as set out in Appendix A of the report.

Reasons for Decision:

To allow District Council to submit a consultation response on the Southwell Amended Neighbourhood Plan.

Options Considered:

It is necessary for the District Council to run the Regulation 16 Consultation on the Southwell Amended Neighbourhood Plan because Southwell Town Council have submitted a Neighbourhood Plan proposal under Regulation 15 (1) of The Neighbourhood Planning (General) Regulations 2012. Officers’ comments are necessary to address issues around consistency with national and local planning policy, and to improve the precision and effectiveness of the Neighbourhood Plan in reaching decisions on development proposals in Southwell Parish.

The Director – Planning & Growth presented a report which updated the Cabinet on the progress of the development of the Southwell Amended Neighbourhood Plan and sought to approve the District Council response to the same. Th current Southwell Neighbourhood Plan was adopted in 2016, and since 2020 Southwell Town Council as the ‘Qualifying Body’ had been carrying out a review of the Plan with the intention of modifying it and replacing it with an Amended Neighbourhood Plan.

Following the first public consultation stage, Southwell Town Council submitted a Submission Draft version of the Neighbourhood Plan to the District Council. Officers had prepared comments on the Submission Draft version of the Amendment Neighbourhood Plan which were attached as Appendix A to the report. It was noted that the proposed Design Code represented one of the more significant areas of concern with the District Council’s comments from the previous stage not seeming to have been accepted.

AGREED     (unanimously) that Cabinet approve the District Council consultation response to the Southwell Amended Neighbourhood Plan as set out in Appendix A of the report.

Reason for Decision:

To allow the District Council to submit a consultation response on the Southwell Amended Neighbourhood Plan.

Options Considered:

It is necessary for the District Council to run the Regulation 16 Consultation on the Southwell Amended Neighbourhood Plan because Southwell Town Council have submitted a Neighbourhood Plan proposal under Regulation 15 (1) of The Neighbourhood Planning (General) Regulations 2012. Officers’ comments are necessary to address issues around consistency with national and local planning policy, and to improve the precision and effectiveness of the Neighbourhood Plan in reaching decisions on development proposals in Southwell Parish.