Issue - meetings

The Executive Member for Strategic Planning and Transport submitted a report detailing the outcome of the Independent Examiner’s report into the Bishop’s Stortford Neighbourhood Plan and proposing a referendum.

The Executive noted that the Independent Examiner had recommended that the Plan should proceed to a referendum subject to minor modifications, which ensured that relevant criteria had been met.  The Executive Member thanked Members and the public in Bishop’s Stortford for their hard work to date.  Councillor G Jones referred to the work of the neighbourhood planning team and the need to avoid complacency in the referendum.

The Executive approved the proposals as now detailed.

RESOLVED - that (A) the recommendations and modifications made by the Independent Examiner of the Bishop’s Stortford Neighbourhood Plan for Silverleys and Meads Wards, as detailed at Essential Reference Paper ‘C’ to this report, be accepted; and

(B)      Officers be requested to make the necessary arrangements to hold a Neighbourhood Plan Referendum for Silverleys and Meads Wards.