Agenda item

Making the Haydon Parish Neighbourhood Plan

To seek approval to formally ‘make’ the Haydon Parish Neighbourhood Plan. The Plan passed independent examination in March 2022. A local referendum held in Haydon Parish on 30 June 2022 returned a majority vote in favour of using the Plan to make decisions on planning applications. The Council is now obliged by statute to make the Neighbourhood Plan unless it considers that doing so would breach European Union obligations (Appendix I).

Making the Haydon Parish Neighbourhood Plan

RESOLVED that

(a) Cabinet note the referendum outcome of 30 June 2022;

(b) Cabinet agrees to formally ‘make’ the Haydon Parish Neighbourhood Plan in accordance with section 38A(4)(a) of the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004; 

(c) Cabinet approves the decision statement (attached at Appendix 1) required under Regulation 19 of the Neighbourhood Planning (General) Regulations 2012, as amended, and 

(d) Cabinet agrees that both the Haydon Parish Neighbourhood Plan and the decision statement be published on the Council’s website and publicised elsewhere in order to bring it to the attention of people who live, work or carry out business in the neighbourhood area; and for the decision statement to be sent to the qualifying body and anyone else who asked to be notified of the decision.