Purpose

Pampisford Parish Council is preparing a
Neighbourhood Plan and has reached the stage of pre-submission
consultation (Regulation 14 in the national guidance). At this
stage it is the responsibility of the parish council to carry out a
public consultation on the neighbourhood plan for their area. We
congratulate the Neighbourhood Plan team and recognise the hard
work that has been put into the preparation of this plan by the
parish council and local community.

 

Officers have considered the contents of the
Pampisford Neighbourhood Plan against the basic condition tests
that all neighbourhood plans are assessed against by an independent
examiner (these tests include such matters as general conformity
with national planning policy and the policies of the adopted Local
Plan).

 

Through this consideration several comments have
been identified.

 

Cabinet agreed on the 26th July 2018 that
the submission of such comments be delegated to officers at this
stage of plan preparation.

 

The proposed comments include both general and
specific matters and are attached at Appendix A. They include such
matters as:

Clear unambiguous policies

Mapping

Comments on all the policies and proposals of the
plan itself

 

The comments are intended to enable the group taking
forward the Neighbourhood Plan to consider the need to amend it to
improve the likelihood that a Neighbourhood Plan examiner would be
able to recommend that it proceed to referendum and to help ensure
that the plan is capable of effective implementation through the
development management process.

 
While
there are several comments set out in Appendix A we hope that these
comments are seen, not as unhelpful criticism of the plan, but
rather a genuine attempt by officers to support the Neighbourhood
Plan team by identifying a number of areas where the plan could be
further refined so that it is successful at examination. We wish
the parish council well for the next steps in the plan
making.

Content

That
the Joint Director for Planning and Economic, having liaised with
the Lead Cabinet Member for Planning, agrees the response to the
pre-submission consultation on the Pampisford Neighbourhood Plan as
set out in Appendix A.