Issue - decisions
Making Neighbourhood Plans: amendment to Council's Neighbourhood Planning Protocol
10/09/2015 - Making Neighbourhood Plans: amendment to Council's Neighbourhood Planning Protocol
RESOLVED (unanimously) that the Cabinet APPROVED the amendments to My Neighbourhood: A Neighbourhood Planning Protocol for Bath & North East Somerset to:
1) Clarify that the decision to make (bring into force) a Neighbourhood Plan once it has passed its referendum should be made by Cabinet;
2) Clarify the process of issuing a Decision Statement following Independent Examination; and
3) Delegate authority to the Divisional Director – Development to issue a Decision Statement once a Neighbourhood Plan has been made; and
4) Clarify the process of approving Neighbourhood Area applications for Parish & Town Councils, where the boundary of the proposed Neighbourhood Area is different to the Parish/Town Council boundary; and
5) Make minor factual alterations