Issue - meetings

Recommendations

The Executive recommend that Full Council:

(1)             ‘make’ (adopt) the Pannal and Burn Bridge Neighbourhood Development Plan 2021-2035 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 Community Development presenting the results of the Pannal and Burn Bridge Neighbourhood Development Plan 2021-2035 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 95.7% 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, Corporate Director Community Development, advised of typographical amendments to paragraph 3.11 of the report where the words “Ryedale Plan 2012-2027” should be replaced with the words “Harrogate District Local Plan 2024 – 2035 (the Local Plan)”, and the words “Malton and Norton on Derwent parishes” should be replaced with “Pannal and Burn Bridge parish”.

Resolved

That the Executive recommend that Full Council:

1)           ‘make’ (adopt) the Pannal and Burn Bridge Neighbourhood Development Plan 2021-2035 at its meeting on 13 November 2024

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

Reasons for Recommendations

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.