Purpose

This report is intended to seek agreement from
Full Council to ‘make’ (formally adopt) the
Middleton-On-Sea Neighbourhood Development Plan 2024-2041. The
Parish Council Neighbourhood Plan Group has prepared the
Middleton-On-Sea Neighbourhood Development Plan 2024-2041, which
was the subject of an independent examination in July and August
2025. The Examiner of this Plan concluded that subject to a series
of recommended modifications, the Middleton-On-Sea Neighbourhood
Development Plan meets all the necessary legal requirements and
should proceed to referendum. (Therefore, if the plan is successful
at referendum, then it should be made).

This ‘making’ of the plan will give it legal force and
it will form part of the statutory Development Plan for that area.
Consequently, decisions on planning applications in the
neighbourhood area will need to be made in accordance with the
Neighbourhood Development Plan or Order, unless material
considerations indicate otherwise