Decision details
Staplehurst Neighbourhood Development Plan
Decision Maker: Strategic Planning, Sustainability and Transportation Committee
Decision status: For Determination
Is Key decision?: No
Is subject to call in?: Yes
Purpose:
A report outling MBC's proposed representation
to the Regulation 16 consultation on Staplehurst's Neighbourhood
Plan
Decision:
Issue for Decision
The Committee to consider Maidstone Borough Council’s formal response to the Consultation on the Staplehurst Neighbourhood Plan in accordance with regulation 16 of the Neighbourhood Planning Regulations 2012 which will be passed on to the independent Examiner at the next stage of the Neighbourhood Planning process.
Decision Made
1. The Committee approved the formal representations on the Staplehurst Neighbourhood Plan (July 2015) according to Regulation 16 of the Neighbourhood Planning Regulations 2012 as set out in the report.
2. The Committee agreed that an informative be added to the representations set out in the report explaining that during its deliberations of its representations to the Examiner on the Staplehurst Neighbourhood Plan, the Strategic Planning Sustainability & Transport Committee noted that Local Plan Policy ED2 (Retention of Employment Sites) and Staplehurst Neighbourhood Plan Policy H6 (Land for Employment and Housing) are inter-related and should not be read in insolation of each other.
Wards Affected: Boughton Monchelsea and Chart Sutton Ward; Headcorn Ward; Marden and Yalding Ward; Staplehurst Ward; Sutton Valence and Langley Ward;
Contact: Cheryl Parks Email: cherylparks@maidstone.gov.uk Email: cheryl.parks@midkent.gov.uk.
Report author: Cheryl Parks
Publication date: 10/11/2015
Date of decision: 10/11/2015
Decided: 10/11/2015 - Strategic Planning, Sustainability and Transportation Committee
Effective from: 21/11/2015
Accompanying Documents: