Issue - meetings

That the application for the designation of Stocking Pelham Neighbourhood Area, submitted by Stocking Pelham Parish Council, be supported.

The Executive Member for Planning and Growth presented the report on the Stocking Pelham Neighbourhood Area Designation. She said that Neighbourhood Plans were an opportunity for the local community to produce planning documents for the local area to influence future development. The Stocking Pelham area designation covered the whole of the parish council area.

Councillor Glover-Ward proposed that the recommendations in the report, as amended, be supported. Councillor Wilson seconded the proposal.

Councillor Daar said Neighbourhood Plans were great for involving the local community. She asked for clarification on the funding for these plans now as the government had stopped funding them via grants.

Councillor Glover-Ward said that once an application had been made, the council had a duty to take it through the process. She said that it was down to the parish council to determine the funding for it.

The Planning Policy Team Leader said that parishes had been made aware of the funding being removed and they hadn’t raised it as a concern.

The motion to support the recommendation, having been proposed and seconded, was put to the meeting and upon a vote being taken, was declared CARRIED.

RESOLVED – That the application for the designation of Stocking Pelham Neighbourhood Area, submitted by Stocking Pelham Parish Council, be supported.