Decision

That the Director of Place and Growth, in consultation with the Executive Member for Planning and Local Plan, authorises any necessary minor factual and consequential modifications to be made to the Finchampstead Neighbourhood Plan, the Decision Statement, and other supporting documents prior to the referendum.

Reasons for the decision

The local planning authority has accepted the Examiner’s report and the Finchampstead Neighbourhood Plan should proceed to referendum. The Neighbourhood Planning (Referendums) Regulations 2012 require the local planning authority to make the specified documents publicly available 28 days before the start date of the referendum on 28 July 2023.
Further checks of the Decision Statement have identified a small number of additional factual and consequential modifications that result from the examiner’s recommendations which were not highlighted in the version considered by Executive.
In addition, a referendum version of the neighbourhood plan has been produced showing the accepted modifications raised by the examiner, and associated factual and consequential changes.

Alternative options considered

None – regulations require this step to be carried out.