What is our Neighbourhood Plan, and why do we need one?
The 2011 Localism Act brought in the right for local communities, through their town and parish councils, to shape their future development by preparing their own Neighbourhood Plans, and shaping how this area is developed in the next 15 years.
It is a community-led process, drawn up by consultation with all groups, organisations and people in the parish. It must reflect the wishes of our residents for future development of the whole parish; not just housing, but also other vital considerations including education, recreation, employment, communications, transport, sustainability and environmental issues for example.
There are formal consultation phases and an independent examination of our Plan to ensure that it is legally watertight and takes account of wider policy considerations (e.g. national policy). Once it has been approved it will be put to a referendum in the community; these Neighbourhood Development Plans will only take effect if there is a majority of support.
Progress so far – how are we doing?
- The land within the parish boundary has been identified and registered as our ‘neighbourhood’ ; our neighbourhood plan area.
- Following several Consultations, two surveys to assess Affordable Housing needs, a new national ruling on the status of the AONB, and a concentrated period of advice from approved planning consultants, our Draft Plan has been updated many times.
- At the latter end of 2019 and January 2020 – more assessments, and advice from our approved planning consultant to ensure that all wording and policies comply with planning law, and are in accord with the overall South Hams District Council Plan (This is contained within the The Plymouth and South West Devon Joint Local Plan and was adopted by South Hams District Council on 21 March 2019.)
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January 2020
Finally in January 2020 the completed Draft was submitted to South Hams District Council independant examiner for acceptance. This process takes a variable amount of time, and while we are confident that after all the input from our consultants it should not need any further amendments, we have not been given a date for its acceptance.
Once it has been approved, it will be returned for a public vote in a Referendum for all parishioners. This will follow the same procedure as before; hard copies will be available in the pub, shop, and from the NP group, and it will be available to read online on this website. This final plan will reflect all the views expressed by you all in our public consultations, and your contributions towards future planning for our parish, but we must ask for your final vote to endorse it before the policies within the plan can carry any legal weight in planning decisions. This Referendum must be conducted by the Electoral Commission in order to have legal valid
Aveton Gifford NP Regulation 15 Submission
Supporting information
TERMS OF REFERENCE dtd 17.6.19 282.79 KB 189 downloads
Terms of Reference, AGNP Steering Group
Sites for consideration 3.48 MB 172 downloads
Map showing the 12 sites that were initially put forward for assessment
Aveton Gifford NP site assessment_v0.1_140317 4.74 MB 181 downloads
Aveton Gifford Site Assesment report
Appendix A – Consultation 1 responses 834.37 KB 168 downloads
Public Consultation 1 – responses
Appendix B – Consultation 2 responses Sites 621.82 KB 173 downloads
Public Consultation 2 – responses
19.10.03 AGNP Reg14 SHDC comments and NP response 528.47 KB 163 downloads
AGNP consultation response from SHDC for Regulation 14
19.10.08 AGNP – Responses to Reg 14 Consultation 85.40 KB 158 downloads
AGNP responses from Statutory Consultees for Regulation 14
19.04.09 AGNP Statement of Consultation v2 1.38 MB 169 downloads
AGNP Statement of Consultation for Regulation 15
19.10.08 AGNP choice of development sites evidence paper 73.74 KB 204 downloads
AGNP Evidence paper for Regulation 15
19.11.06 AGNP Basic Conditions Statement 204.67 KB 200 downloads
AGNP Basic Conditions Statement for Regulation 15;
19.04.09 AGNP Monitoring Framework 67.29 KB 195 downloads
AGNP Monitoring Framework for Regulation 16
Aveton Gifford NP SEA Environmental Report_V1.0_091019 2.60 MB 216 downloads
Strategic Environmental Assessment for AGNPThere are 3 further letters which, because of the restrictions imposed by Data Protection, are not published here, but which are available to be read by contacting Sarah Harcus or David Davis Berry directly.
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