Issue - meetings
Rufforth and Knapton Neighbourhood Plan – Referendum Result and Adoption
Meeting: 20/12/2018 - Executive (Item 83)
83 Rufforth With Knapton Neighbourhood Plan – Referendum Result and Adoption 
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The Corporate Director of Economy & Place to present a report which informs Members of the outcome of the referendum on the Rufforth With Knapton Neighbourhood Plan and recommends that the Plan is formally ‘made’ and brought into force as part of the Development Plan for York.
Additional documents:
- Annex A Declaration of result of poll FINAL, item 83
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- Annex B Decision Statement FINAL, item 83
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- Annex C Better Decision Making tool for Rufforth with Knapton NP Merged, item 83
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Decision:
Resolved: (i) That the results of the referendum be noted and that the Rufforth with Knapton Neighbourhood Plan be formally ‘made’.
(ii) That the Decision Statement attached as Annex B to the report be published in accordance with Regulation 19 of the Neighbourhood Planning (General) Regulations 2012 (as amended).
Reason: To allow the Neighbourhood Plan to progress in line with the Neighbourhood Planning Regulations.
Minutes:
The Assistant Director of Planning & Public Protection and the Development Officer, Strategic Planning presented a report which informed Members of the outcome of the referendum on the Rufforth with Knapton Neighbourhood Plan (the Plan).
Executive had agreed on 27 September 2018 that the Plan should proceed to a referendum, which had duly taken place on 20 November. The Declaration of Results Poll attached as Annex A to the report confirmed that of the 276 residents (32.9%) who took part, 93% had voted in favour of the Plan and 7% had voted against it. The council was therefore required by legislation, as outlined in paragraphs 11-13, to ‘make’ the Plan – that is, bring it into force as part of the Development Plan – by 16 January 2019.
The Local Plan Working Group ( LPWG) had considered the Plan at their meeting on 18 December and advised that the Plan be ‘made’; minutes of that meeting were circulated to Members.
The Chair thanked Rufforth with Knapton Parish Council for their work on the Plan and it was
Resolved: (i) That the results of the referendum be noted and that the Rufforth with Knapton Neighbourhood Plan be formally ‘made’.
(ii) That the Decision Statement attached as Annex B to the report be published in accordance with Regulation 19 of the Neighbourhood Planning (General) Regulations 2012 (as amended).
Reason: To allow the Neighbourhood Plan to progress in line with the Neighbourhood Planning Regulations.