Issue - meetings

To consider the report relating to the Newport, Quendon and Rickling Neighbourhood Plan.

RESOLVED to approve the changes proposed in Appendix 3 of the report, and that the submitted Newport Quendon & Rickling Neighbourhood Plan:

a) be modified as set out in Appendix 3, subject to a seven-week consultation period in line with Regulation 17A of the Neighbourhood Planning (General) and Development Management Procedure (Amendment) Regulations 2016;

b) that the Plan is progressed to Referendum covering the area of Newport, Quendon and Rickling Parishes subject to no substantive objections being lodged to the modifications proposed; and

c) That authority to be delegated to Director of Public Services, in consultation with the Planning Portfolio Holder, to consider responses to consultation on the proposed decision relating to the departures from the Examiner’s recommendations, and to determine the final changes to be made to the neighbourhood plan before it proceeds to the referendum.

Councillor Hargreaves declared a non-pecuniary interest as Chair of the Newport, Quendon and Rickling Neighbourhood Plan Steering Group. He abstained from voting on this item.

Councillor Evans summarised the report regarding the Newport, Quendon and Rickling Neighbourhood Plan. He said that by grouping together, the three villages had produced a cost effective neighbourhood plan, and benefits relating to the planning process and development control would be attained once it was in place.

Councillor Hargreaves spoke on the neighbourhood plan process and the challenges faced by settlements regarding new development. He said the neighbourhood plan would provide a framework for positive development in future and that the villages had already benefitted from the draft Plan, as it had assisted in negotiations with developers and had been referenced by Planning Inspectors. 

RESOLVED to approve the changes proposed in Appendix 3 of the report, and that the submitted Newport Quendon & Rickling Neighbourhood Plan:

a) be modified as set out in Appendix 3, subject to a seven-week consultation period in line with Regulation 17A of the Neighbourhood Planning (General) and Development Management Procedure (Amendment) Regulations 2016;

b) that the Plan is progressed to Referendum covering the area of Newport, Quendon and Rickling Parishes subject to no substantive objections being lodged to the modifications proposed; and

c) That authority to be delegated to Director of Public Services, in consultation with the Planning Portfolio Holder, to consider responses to consultation on the proposed decision relating to the departures from the Examiner’s recommendations, and to determine the final changes to be made to the neighbourhood plan before it proceeds to the referendum.

The meeting was closed at 8.17pm.