Review of Neighbourhood Plan

At the Parish Council meeting on 4/12/19 the council took the decision to review the Neighbourhood Plan. The policies in the original Neighbourhood Plan , which was adopted in June 2018, remained in force until the new plan was adopted.

The Parish Council engaged local Neighbourhood Planning Consultancy Yourlocale to support the review process. The Council has received three grants totalling £19,700 from Groundwork UK to fund the review.

The main reasons for reviewing the Plan were:

• The Harborough District Council Local Plan has been adopted since the Neighbourhood Plan was Made. As the more recently adopted plan the Local Plan takes precedence. This means if there is a conflict the Local Plan policy will take precedence. This will be reversed on review of the Neighbourhood Plan
• The required housing numbers are now more achievable with the recent permissions
• Since the Neighbourhood Plan was Made there has been an update to the National Planning Policy Framework ad Planning Practice Guidance, both of which strengthen the weight given to Neighbourhood Plans.

The following policies were reviewed:

• Housing allocation
• Affordable housing provision
• Reconsider views (these were rejected by the Inspector for the current Neighbourhood Plan)
• Revisit Local Green Space behind School –this was also rejected by the Inspector, and one reason for given was the potential need for future housing which may no longer apply if housing allocations can be made.

The Regulation 14 Consultation ran for seven weeks from 29/7/21 to 15/9/21. Click on the link below to the page for this consultation

The Regulation 16 Consultation ran from 19/1/22 to 2/3/22. The Regulation 16 responses can be seen on the Harborough District Council website at the link below

East Langton Neighbourhood Plan Review details on Harborough District Council website

The submission version is below. The Appendices are on the Neighbourhood Plan page with the Submission Version

Barbara Maksymiw was appointed as the Independant Examiner.

On 13/4/22 she raised the some questions, which can be seen below along with the Parish Council's responses in blue. An associated document referred to in the Parish Council's responses is also below