Decision details

Following an Independent Examination into the Cossall Neighbourhood

Plan, the Independent Examiner recommended that the Plan should proceed to referendum, subject to a number of recommended modifications. At its meeting of 5 December 2023, Cabinet resolved that the Cossall Neighbourhood Plan, once amended as proposed, would meet the basic conditions and other relevant legislative requirements and should proceed to referendum.

Broxtowe Borough Council was now required to formally ‘make’ (adopt) the Cossall Neighbourhood Plan. The Cossall Neighbourhood Plan would then form part of the ‘development plan’ for Cossall Parish, sitting alongside the Broxtowe Local Plan (Broxtowe Aligned Core Strategy and the Broxtowe Part 2 Local Plan).

Were the Cossall Neighbourhood Plan to be ‘called in’ for consideration at the Overview and Scrutiny Committee, then a decision with the 8-week period would not be possible. The Chair of the Overview and Scrutiny Committee had been consulted and has agreed that the call-in procedure shall not apply to this decision.

RESOLVED that:

1.          Following a successful referendum on 15February 2024, the Council ‘makes’ (adopts) the Cossall Neighbourhood Plan.

2.          Authority be given to issue a statement setting out this decision (the ‘Decision Statement’).

Reason

The Council will be able to claim £20,000 from the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC), during the next ‘claims window’, as it issued a decision statement detailing its intention to send the Neighbourhood Plan to referendum (as set out under Regulation 18 of the Neighbourhood Planning (General) Regulations 2012 (as amended)), and this referendum has now been held.