Issue - meetings

Recommended

The Executive recommend that Full Council:

1)               ‘make’ (adopt) the Malton and Norton on Derwent Neighbourhood Plan 2020-2027 at its meeting on 13 November 2024;

2)               approve the Regulation 19 Decision Statement included at Appendix A to this report.

Considered – A report of the Corporate Director of Community Development presenting the results of the Malton and Norton on Derwent Neighbourhood Development Plan 2020-2027 referendum and the requirements of North Yorkshire Council as the local Planning Authority to formally ‘make’, or adopt, the Neighbourhood Plan.  The report also presented the Regulation 19 Decision Statement, included at Appendix A to this report, which sets out the Local Planning Authority’s decision in terms of ‘making’, or adopting, the Neighbourhood Plan and the reasons for that decision.

Councillor Mark Crane, Executive Member for Open to Business, presented the report and reported that at the referendum 83.13% of those voting voted ‘Yes’ when asked if they wanted the Neighbourhood plan to be used by NYC to help it decide planning applications in the designated area.

Nic Harne, the Corporate Director Community Development, reported that additional wording should be included in the decision statement at Appendix A.  Paragraph 2.5 should read as follows:

2.5       Following this outcome, on the 5th November 2024, the Executive of North Yorkshire Council agreed to recommend to Full Council that the Malton and Norton on Derwent Neighbourhood Plan 2020-2027 is formally made on or before 29 November 2024 and that this Decision Statement is approved for publication. At a meeting on the 13th November 2024, Full Council agreed the Executive’s recommendations.

Resolved

That the Executive recommend that Full Council:

1)           ‘make’ (adopt) the Malton and Norton on Derwent Neighbourhood Development Plan 2020-2027 at its meeting on 13 November 2024

2)           approve the Regulation 19 Decision Statement included at Appendix A to this report

Reasons for Recommendation

In order to meet the requirements of the Neighbourhood Planning (General) Regulations 2012 (as amended), following the positive result at referendum, North Yorkshire Council, as the Local Planning Authority, is required to make a decision relating to the ‘making’ (adopting) of the Neighbourhood Plan and publish a Regulation 19 Decision Statement setting out its decision and the reasons for that decision. The following recommendations relate to these legal requirements.

Alternative Options Considered

No other options considered. The report sets out the steps the Council is required to take to comply with its legal duties under the Town and Country Planning Act to make a decision on ‘making’ (adopting) a neighbourhood development plan following a positive result at referendum.