Issue - meetings

Recommendations

Executive is recommended to:-

1)    make the Clapham cum Newby NDP on or before 13 November 2025

2)    approve the Decision Statement set out at appendix A to this report.

3)    approve the submission to Full Council on 12 November for final ratification.

Considered – A report of the Corporate Director Community Development presenting the results of the Clapham cum Newby Neighbourhood Development Plan (NDP) referendum and the requirements of North Yorkshire Council and the Local Planning Authority to ‘make’ or adopt the Clapham cum Newby NDP.

The Executive Member for Open for Business, Councillor Mark Crane, presented the report which set out that at the Clapham cum Newby NDP referendum held on 18 September 2025 more than 50% of those voting voted ‘yes’ to the question: "Do you want North Yorkshire Council to use the neighbourhood plan for Clapham cum Newby to help it decide planning applications in the neighbourhood area?".  The detailed results were included at paragraph 3.7 of the report.  Following a successful referendum the Council as Local Planning Authority was required to formally ‘make’ the NDP on or before 13 November 2025 and to approve the Decision Statement attached at Appendix A for publication on the Council’s website.  As a result of this the NDP would form part of the statutory development plan for the area alongside the adopted Craven Local Plan (2019).  The NDP would be considered by full Council on 12 November 2025.

Resolved

That the Executive recommend that full Council on 12 November 2025

1)    make the Clapham cum Newby NDP on or before 13 November 2025

2)    approve the Decision Statement set out at Appendix A to this report for final ratification

Reasons for recommendations

In order to meet the requirements of The Neighbourhood Planning (General) Regulations 2012 (as amended) following a successful referendum, North Yorkshire Council as the Local Planning Authority was required to make a decision relating to making the Clapham cum Newby NDP and publish a Regulation 19 Decision Statement setting out the decision and the Council’s reasons for making that decision.  The recommendations related to these legal requirements.

Alternative options considered

No other options considered. The report set out the steps the Council was required to take to comply with its legal duties under the Town and Country Planning Act relating to making a decision relating to ‘make’ a neighbourhood development plan.