Decision details

Purpose of Report: To inform Members of the recommendations made in the Examiner’s Report and to explain the Council’s response to these and to gain approval of the subsequent Decision Statement to allow the Neighbourhood Plan to proceed to Referendum.

Executive will be asked to:  The report will recommend that Members approve the proposed modifications recommended in the Examiner’s Report and the Council’s Decision Statement to allow the Poppleton Neighbourhood Plan to proceed to Referendum.

Resolved: That the Executive;

                             i.        Agree the Examiner’s modifications and the further minor modifications set out at Annex B to the Upper and Nether Poppleton Neighbourhood Plan and that subject to those modifications the Neighbourhood Plan meets the Basic Conditions and other legislative requirements.

                            ii.        Agree that the Upper and Nether Poppleton Neighbourhood Plan as modified by recommendation i) proceeds to a local referendum based on the geographic boundary of the parishes of Upper and Nether Poppleton as recommend by the Examiner.

                           iii.        Approve the Decision Statement attached at Annex B to be published on the City of York Council’s website.

Reason:     To allow the Neighbourhood Plan to progress in line with neighbourhood planning legislation.