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, the decision is made that The Wooburn and
Bourne End Neighbourhood Plan be made part of the Buckinghamshire
Development Plan.
Reasons for the decision:
The Wooburn and Bourne End 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.
(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.)
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: The Wooburns, Bourne End & Hedsor;
Contact: Ella Wood, Neighbourhood Planning Assistant Email: Ella.Wood@buckinghamshire.gov.uk.
Publication date: 03/11/2023
Date of decision: 02/11/2023
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