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** Please note that due to the size of the document, Appendix 3 to this report is being published as a supplement to the main agenda **

Report of Assistant Director - Planning and Development

Purpose of report

To consider a second Examination Report for the Weston-on-the-Green Neighbourhood Plan and determine whether the Plan, incorporating modifications should proceed to a referendum.

Recommendations

The Executive is recommended:

 1.1         To approve all the Examiner’s recommendations and modifications (Appendices 1 and 2) to enable the Plan, incorporating the recommended modifications (Appendix 3), to proceed to a referendum.

1.2          To authorise the issue of a ‘decision statement’ confirming the Executive’s decision including that the Plan will now proceed to a referendum.

1.3          To authorise the Assistant Director – Planning and Development to make any minor presentational changes and corrections necessary to ready the Plan for referendum.

Resolved

(1)           That all the Examiner’s recommendations and modifications (Annexes to the Minutes as set out in the Minute Book) be approved to enable the Plan, incorporating the recommended modifications (Annex to the Minutes as set out in the Minute Book) to proceed to a referendum.

(2)           That the issue of a ‘decision statement’ confirming the Executive’s decision including that the Plan will now proceed to a referendum be authorised.

(3)           That the Assistant Director – Planning and Development be authorised to make any minor presentational changes and corrections necessary to ready the Plan for referendum.

The Assistant Director - Planning and Development submitted a report to consider a second Examination Report for the Weston-on-the-Green Neighbourhood Plan and determine whether the Plan, incorporating modifications should proceed to a referendum.

Resolved

(1)           That all the Examiner’s recommendations and modifications (Annexes to the Minutes as set out in the Minute Book) be approved to enable the Plan, incorporating the recommended modifications (Annex to the Minutes as set out in the Minute Book) to proceed to a referendum.

(2)           That the issue of a ‘decision statement’ confirming the Executive’s decision including that the Plan will now proceed to a referendum be authorised.

(3)           That the Assistant Director – Planning and Development be authorised to make any minor presentational changes and corrections necessary to ready the Plan for referendum.

Reasons

The submission Weston-on-the-Green Neighbourhood Plan has been independently examined. The recommendations of the Examiner were considered by the Executive on 4 November 2019. It approved all the Examiner’s recommendations and modifications with the exception of Modifications 15, 21, 24, 26 and 27. It also approved the area for the future referendum as being the designated Neighbourhood Plan area.

Following representations received to the Council’s decision statement dated 14 November 2019, a second partial independent examination has been held. The Examiner of this partial examination has recommended that the Neighbourhood Plan proceed to referendum subject to the incorporation of modifications. Officers agree with the Examiner’s conclusions. They consider, with his recommended modifications, together with the recommendations of the first examiner accepted by the Executive on 4 November 2019, that the Plan meets the requisite Basic Conditions and should proceed to referendum.

Alternative options

Option 1: Not to accept all the Examiner’s recommendations

Where a Local Planning Authority proposes to make a decision that differs from the Examiner’s recommendations it is required to set out these reasons in a decision statement which would be subject to further consultation.