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.

Members will be asked to approve the Proposed Modifications recommended in the Examiner’s Report and the Council’s Decision Statement to allow the Rufforth and Knapton Neighbourhood Plan to proceed to Referendum.

Resolved:  (i)      That the Examiner’s modifications, and the consequential minor modifications, to the Rufforth with Knapton Neighbourhood Plan, as set out in Annex B, be approved and that, subject to those modifications, it be agreed that the Neighbourhood Plan meets the Basic Conditions and other legislative requirements.

                   (ii)      That the Rufforth with Knapton Neighbourhood Plan, as amended, proceed to a local referendum based on the geographic boundary of the parish of Rufforth with Knapton, as recommended by the Examiner.

                   (iii)     That the Decision Statement at Annex B be published on the City of York Council’s website.

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