Agenda, decisions and minutes

Members are asked to declare any interest and the nature of that interest which they may have in any of the items under consideration at this meeting.

Councillors Golby and Brown advised that they knew the owner of Bosworth House which was mentioned in the report but did not have an interest to declare.

To approve the minutes of the meeting held on 20^th September 2023.

The minutes of the meeting held on 20^th September would be brought to the following meeting.

To receive communications from the Chair.

None advised

The Planning Policy Committee:

a)    Noted and welcomed the significant progress in making the neighbourhood development plan (NDP) by the Arthingworth community.

b)    Accepted the Examiner’s recommended modifications in respect of the Arthingworth NDP

c)     Accepted the Inspector’s recommendation that the NDP, as modified in accordance with recommendation (b), should proceed to a referendum of voters within the Arthingworth Neighbourhood Area.

d)    Approved the proposed Decision of Statement set out in Appendix 1 of the report, subject to items (b) and (c) aboce and any necessary factual alterations.

e)    Agreed that delegated authority be given to the Head of Planning Policy and Specialist Services to make any further minor editorial changes to the Plan to address any factual and typographical errors and to reflect the fact that the document will be in its intended final form.

The Senior Policy Officer presented the report which sought consideration of the recommendations of the independent examiner following the examination of the Arthingworth Neighbourhood Development Plan (NDP), and sought approval to put the plan to referendum.

The Planning Policy Committee:

a)    Noted and welcomed the significant progress in making the neighbourhood development plan (NDP) by the Arthingworth community.

b)    Accepted the Examiner’s recommended modifications in respect of the Arthingworth NDP

c)    Accepted the Inspector’s recommendation that the NDP, as modified in accordance with recommendation (b), should proceed to a referendum of voters within the Arthingworth Neighbourhood Area.

d)    Approved the proposed Decision of Statement set out in Appendix 1 of the report, subject to items (b) and (c) aboce and any necessary factual alterations.

e)    Agreed that delegated authority be given to the Head of Planning Policy and Specialist Services to make any further minor editorial changes to the Plan to address any factual and typographical errors and to reflect the fact that the document will be in its intended final form.

The Chair to advise whether they have agreed to any items of urgent business being admitted to the agenda.

There was no urgent business on this occasion

In respect of the following items the Chairman may move the resolution set out below, on the grounds that if the public were present it would be likely that exempt information (information regarded as private for the purposes of the Local Government Act 1972) would be disclosed to them: The Committee is requested to resolve: “That under Section 100A of the Local Government Act 1972, the public be excluded from the meeting for the following item(s) of business on the grounds that if the public were present it would be likely that exempt information under Part 1 of Schedule 12A to the Act of the descriptions against each item would be disclosed to them”