Purpose

To determine how stakeholders and the
community will be involved in the preparation of Planning Policy
documents.

Content

The Statement of
Community Involvement (SCI) was a protocol for how local
authorities would engage with their communities in the preparation
of Local Development Documents (LDDs) such as local and
neighbourhood plans, and the consideration of planning applications
and planning enforcement matters.
 
The SCI was a document that the
Council were required by law to produce and keep up to date to
ensure effective community involvement at all stages in the
planning process. The current Buckinghamshire SCI was adopted in
December 2021 and officers had taken the opportunity to update it
to reflect the current position with the Local Plan for
Buckinghamshire (LP4B), and in the light of the recently confirmed
government deadline that local plans prepared under the existing
plan-making system must be submitted for examination no later than
December 2026.
 
No changes were proposed to the
sections in the adopted SCI on neighbourhood planning and
enforcement matters. Changes were being proposed to the planning
application section specifically in relation to the Council no
longer publishing some planning application representations on its
website.
 
RESOLVED
that the revised Statement
of Community Involvement (SCI) be adopted.