Issue - meetings

To consider the Thaxted Neighbourhood Plan report.

RESOLVED that Cabinet:

i.              Accepts the Independent Examiner’s recommended changes to the

Thaxted Neighbourhood Plan in full as set out in the Schedule at Enc 2 and note the recommendation that the amended Thaxted Neighbourhood Plan should proceed to a Referendum of voters within the Parish of Thaxted to establish whether the plan should form part of the Development Plan for Uttlesford District Council.

ii.             Approves the holding of a referendum relating to the Thaxted Neighbourhood Plan on 24 January 2019 that will include all the registered local government electors in Thaxted Parish.

The Leader moved item 13 forward in proceedings for the benefit of those present.

Following independent examination of the Thaxted Neighbourhood Plan, the Council had received the Examiner’s final report on 28 September 2018. The report recommended that the Plan should proceed to a referendum in Thaxted, subject to the inclusion of the examiner’s proposed modifications.

Members commended the Thaxted Neighbourhood Steering Group, and the Parish Council, for the culmination of work that had led to the Plan.

RESOLVED:

i.                 That Cabinet accepts the Independent Examiner’s recommended changes to the Thaxted Neighbourhood Plan in full as set out in the Schedule and notes the recommendation that the amended Thaxted Neighbourhood Plan should proceed to a Referendum of voters within the Parish of Thaxted to establish whether the plan should form part of the Development Plan for Uttlesford District Council.

ii.                That the Cabinet approves the holding of a referendum relating to the Thaxted Neighbourhood Plan on 24 January 2019 that will include all the registered local government electors in Thaxted Parish.