Issue - meetings

Neighbourhood Plan Area Application for St Nicholas Hurst

Meeting: 29/03/2018 - Executive (Item 117)

117 St Nicholas Hurst Neighbourhood Plan Area Designation pdf icon PDF 82 KB

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Decision:

That St Nicholas Hurst Parish be designated as a Neighbourhood Area.

Minutes:

The Executive considered a report relating to an application received requesting that St Nicholas Hurst Parish be designated as a Neighbourhood Plan Area.

 

The Executive Member for Strategic Highways and Planning informed the meeting that St Nicholas Hurst Parish Council wished to prepare a neighbourhood plan which would help to influence development decisions across the parish.  The first step in the process was for the Council to designate St Nicholas Hurst Parish as a Neighbourhood Plan Area.  It was noted that the proposal had been consulted upon and of the 10 responses received none of these gave rise to any substantive issues regarding the appropriateness of the designation.

 

Councillor Dolinski queried whether the Plan would entitle the Parish Council to Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL) specifically to enable local development.  Councillor Lee confirmed that the Plan would entitle the local community to get 25% of any CIL which was attributable to development in that particular area. It was noted that a Neighbourhood Plan could not override any senior plan i.e. the Local Plan once it was revised and the community would not be able to state that they did not want to take any housing.  It did however give the community the ability to recommend where any housing should be placed.

 

RESOLVED: That St Nicholas Hurst Parish be designated as a Neighbourhood Area.