Decision details
Decision Maker: Corporate Director Planning, Growth and Sustainability
Decision status: Recommendations Approved
Is Key decision?: No
Is subject to call in?: No
Decision:
Following a referendum result in favour of the
neighbourhood plan, that the North Marston Neighbourhood Plan is
made part of the Buckinghamshire Development Plan
Reasons for the decision:
The Council has considered the European and
human rights implications of the Neighbourhood Plan as part of its
consideration of the draft Plan and the Examiner’s report and
it is not considered to contravene those rights.
The North Marston Neighbourhood Plan has passed all the formal
stages required before it can be made. Buckinghamshire Council must
now make the plan.
Under the Councils Scheme of delegations, the decision to
‘make’ a Neighbourhood Plan is delegated to the
Director of Planning and the Environment.
Alternative options considered:
If a neighbourhood plan is supported by the
majority of people who vote in a referendum then the Local Planning
Authority have to make the plan, within 8 weeks of the day after
the referendum is held, in accordance with the relevant regulations
unless the plan would be in breach of European legislation or the
Convention on Human Rights.
As set out above the majority of people who voted supported the
plan and the council does not consider the plan would breach the
relevant legislation. as such there are no alternative actions
allowed by the regulations.
Wards Affected: Great Brickhill;
Contact: Rachael Riach, Neighbourhood Planning Coordinator • Spatial Planning Email: Rachael.Riach@buckinghamshire.gov.uk.
Publication date: 05/04/2023
Date of decision: 03/04/2023
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