Neighbourhood Plan
UPDATE
The Neighbourhood Plan is under review by the Council, we hope to complete this process during 2022.
Neighbourhood Planning Group
Members: Chairman Sandy Kenyon, Jonathon Maginness, Matthew Harnett, Nigel Buckley.
*The Steering Committee is now disbanded and any questions should be referred to the Parish Council*
Neighbourhood Plan – Referendum Version
The Localism Act 2011 introduced a new right for communities to draw up a Neighbourhood Plan. This allows local communities to play a more positive role in the planning decisions for their area.
The process was started by Somerford Parish Council in November 2014 who after consulting the parish about creating a neighbourhood plan appointed a steering group to take the process forward.
The steering group consists of Parish Council members and local residents.
The whole process should identify and reflect what the community want and with that in mind the Somerford Neighbourhood Plan Steering Group made a decision to consult with residents on each stage of the process. The first step taken was a questionnaire to find out what issues concerned people followed by a meeting where people were again asked what were the issues of greatest concern to them. This was then followed up with a survey to see which of these issues were of concern to a lot of people.
From the results of the survey objectives were written and again a meeting was held and residents invited to examine the draft objectives and to have a tea and cake. This was to make sure that the steering group had understood the issues and raised the correct objectives to address these issues.
Regulation 14:
Notification Letter
Town and Country Planning Statement
Draft Neighbourhood Plan
Regulation 14 Response Form
Comments on Regulation 14
Regulation 16:
External Examiner’s Letter 9 October 2017
Somerford Procedural Clarification Letter 17 October 2017