Purpose

1.    
Heydon Parish Council is preparing a Neighbourhood
Plan and has reached the stage of pre-submission consultation
(Regulation 14 in the national guidance).  At this stage it is the responsibility of the
parish council to carry out a public consultation on the
neighbourhood plan for their area. We congratulate the
Neighbourhood Plan team and recognise the hard work that has been
put into the preparation of this plan for Heydon by the parish
council and local community.
 

2.    
Officers have considered the contents of the Heydon
Neighbourhood Plan against the basic condition tests that all
neighbourhood plans are assessed against by an independent examiner
(these tests include such matters as general conformity with
national planning policy and the policies of the adopted Local
Plan).
 

3.    
Through this consideration, several comments have
been identified.
 

4.    
Cabinet agreed on the 26 July 2018 that the
submission of such comments be delegated to officers at this stage
of plan preparation.
 

5.    
The proposed comments include both general and
specific matters and are attached at Appendix A. 
 

6.    
The comments are intended to enable the group taking
forward the Neighbourhood Plan to consider the need to amend it
in order to improve the likelihood that
an Independent Examiner would be able to recommend that it proceed
to referendum and to help ensure that the plan is capable of
effective implementation through the development management
process.
 

7.    
While there are several comments set out in Appendix
A, we hope that these comments are seen, not as unhelpful
criticisms of the plan, but a genuine attempt by officers to
support the Neighbourhood Plan team by identifying a number of areas where the plan could be further
refined so that it is successful at examination. We wish Heydon
Parish Council well in the next steps of the plan-making
process.

Content

That
the Joint Director for Planning and Economic Development, having
liaised with the Lead Cabinet Member for Planning, agreed the
response to the pre-submission consultation on the Heydon
Neighbourhood Plan by South Cambridgeshire District Council as set
out in Appendix A.