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:
To declare that the whole of Beaconsfield Town
Council area has now been designated as a Neighbourhood Area in
accordance with Regulation 5A of The Neighbourhood Planning
(General) Regulations 2012 as amended.
Reasons for the decision:
On the 10th September 2020 Beaconsfield Town
Council submitted a Neighbourhood Area Application to declare the
entire Town Council area as a Neighbourhood Area.
The Beaconsfield Town Council application was submitted under the
Regulation 5A inserted into the 2012 Neighbourhood Planning
Regulations by regulations which came into force on the 1st October
2016.
The effect of Regulation 5A is that if a parish council (note for
the purposes of the regulations Beaconsfield Town Council is a
Parish Council) submits a Neighbourhood Area Application to include
the whole of its parish area within the Neighbourhood Area the
Local Planning Authority (Buckinghamshire Council in this case) has
to use its powers under the Act to designate the Neighbourhood
Area.
In addition, the regulations state that where a parish has
submitted a Neighbourhood Area application to include the whole of
its parish in the neighbourhood area that the Local Planning
Authority is not required to consult or publicise the Neighbourhood
Area Application. Therefore, Buckinghamshire Council has not
carried out any publicity of the Neighbourhood Area
Application.
Alternative options considered:
Because it is a requirement of the
Neighbourhood Planning (England) Regulations 2012 as amended that
if a parish council submits a valid application to declare the
whole of its parish area as a neighbourhood area the local planning
authority has to use its powers to designate the area applied for
there are no other alternative options. If the neighbourhood area
application had been invalid, then the Council could have rejected
it
Wards Affected: Beaconsfield;
Details of any conflict of interest declared: Under the regulations no consultation is required as such not aware of any conflict of interest.
Contact: Steve Bambrick, Corporate Director Planning Growth & Sustainability Email: steve.bambrick@buckinghamshire.gov.uk.
Publication date: 11/11/2020
Date of decision: 09/11/2020
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