Decision details

Purpose of Report: To inform Members of the recommendations made in the Examiner’s Report; 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.

The Executive will be asked to approve the proposed modifications recommended in the Examiner’s Report and the Council’s Decision Statement to allow the York Minster Precinct Neighbourhood Plan to proceed to Referendum.

Resolved:  (i)      That the Examiner’s modifications set out in Annex B (Decision Statement) to the York Minster Precinct Neighbourhood Plan be agreed and that, subject to those modifications, the Neighbourhood Plan meets the Basic Conditions and other legislative requirements.

                   (ii)      That the York Minster Precinct Neighbourhood Plan, as amended, proceed to a local referendum based on the neighbourhood area and residential properties within the immediate vicinity of the neighbourhood area, to include the postcodes outlined in Appendix A of the Examiner’s report (at Annex A).

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

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