Issue - meetings

To accept the Examiners recommendations and to confirm that this Plan will now proceed to a referendum in the Stapeley and Batherton Neighbourhood Plan area.

It was reported that the Stapeley and Batherton Neighbourhood Development Plan was submitted to the Council in June 2017 and, following a statutory publicity period, proceeded to Independent Examination.  The Examiner’s report has now been received and recommends that subject to some modifications it should proceed to referendum.  The Council must now consider the recommendations of the Examiner and decide how to proceed.

The Council is committed to supporting neighbourhood planning in Cheshire East.  It has a legal duty to provide advice and assistance on neighbourhood plans, to hold an independent examination on neighbourhood plans submitted to the Council and to make arrangements for a referendum following a favourable Examiner’s Report. 

The Council accepts the examiner’s recommendations and subject to the modifications set out in the Examiner’s Report, the Stapeley and Batherton Neighbourhood Development Plan is considered to meet the statutory basic conditions and procedural requirements set out in Schedule 10, paragraph 8, of the Localism Act and as such it can now proceed to referendum.

RESOLVED

That the Examiner’s recommendations to make modifications to the Stapeley Batherton Neighbourhood Development Plan, as set out in the Examiner’s report, be approved and it be confirmed that it will now proceed to referendum in the Stapeley and Batherton Neighbourhood Plan area on 15 February 2018.