Nbhd Development plan(NDP)

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Neighbourhood Development Plan – Nearly there

SAVE THE DATE – 11 AUGUST 2016

This is the date that Eastington Neighbourhood Development Plan (NDP) should go to Referendum. The Plan has been through independent examination, and the examiner has made 20 recommended amendments to the Plan. None of those recommendations materially change our plan. Indeed in some cases they strengthen and improve the plan. Those recommendations, with a report from Officers, now go to Stroud District Council’s Environment Committee in June and they decide whether to endorse the recommendations in the plan and agree that the Plan should proceed to referendum.

With the Ecotricity Planning application and now with the next phase of CLT development it is easy to lose sight of our NDP. I would urge you to stay with us for just a very few more months. The NDP matters and there are good reasons why it is so important for our parish.

We remain as a Parish very vulnerable to planning applications given so much of the land in the Parish is owned by developers.
Neighbourhood planning enables communities to play a much stronger role in shaping the areas in which they live and work and in supporting new development proposals. This is because unlike the parish, village or town plans that communities may have prepared, a Neighbourhood Development Plan is the plan for our parish and sits alongside the Local Plan (LP) prepared by Stroud District Council. Decisions on planning applications will be made using both the LP and the NDP, and any other “material considerations”.
Neighbourhood planning provides the opportunity for communities to set out a positive vision for how they want their community to develop over the next ten, fifteen, twenty years in ways that meet identified local need and make sense for local people. We have prepared that Plan and put in place planning policies that will help deliver that vision and support planning permission for the development we wish to see.
To help deliver their vision communities that take a proactive approach by drawing up a neighbourhood plan or Order and secure the consent of local people in a referendum, will benefit from 25 percent of the revenues from the Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL) arising from the development that takes place in their area.
A small number of residents of our Parish have spent almost 3 years preparing this plan we believe that the plan reinforces good planning at a local level when planning applications come forward.