Purpose

Linton and Hildersham 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 Linton and
Hildersham 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
Linton and Hildersham Neighbourhood Plan as set out in Appendix
A.