Decision Maker: Assistant Director - Planning
Decision status: Recommendations Approved
Is Key decision?: No
Is subject to call in?: No
That the Assistant Director of Planning
approve the designation of the whole of Sherburn in Elmet parish as
a Neighbourhood Area under Part 2(7) of the Neighbourhood Planning
(General) Regulations 2012 (as amended).
To enable the next stages of the development
of Sherburn in Elmet Neighbourhood Development Plan to
commence.
Part 2(7) of the Neighbourhood Planning
(General) Regulations 2012 (as amended) requires local planning
authorities to either designate the area (7(1)) or refuse to
designate (7(2)).
The Town and Country Planning Act 1990 requires local planning
authorities, when determining applications, ‘to have regard
to the desirability of designating the whole of the area of a
parish council as a neighbourhood area, and the desirability of
maintaining the existing boundaries of areas already designated as
neighbourhood areas’ (section 61G(4)).
Therefore, the presumption is that councils will designate
neighbourhood areas based on existing parish boundaries unless
there is a valid planning reason not to do so.
The application to designate the whole parish of Sherburn in Elmet
as a neighbourhood area meets the requirements set out in the
Neighbourhood Planning (General) Regulations 2012 (as amended) and
the Council as the local planning authority must exercise their
powers under section 61G(5) of the Town and Country Planning Act
1990 to designate the whole of Sherburn in Elmet parish as a
neighbourhood area.
Publication date: 07/06/2024
Date of decision: 06/06/2024