Issue - meetings

To consider the head of planning’s report.  The report will be published after the result of the Sonning Common Neighbourhood Plan Referendum (to be held on 29 September 2016) is known. 

Cabinet considered the head of planning’s report on the Sonning Common Neighbourhood Plan.  The plan had been subject to a referendum on 29 September 2016, when the majority supported it. 

Cabinet noted that the council had a duty to make the neighbourhood plan part of the development plan unless the making of the plan would breach, or would otherwise be incompatible with, any EU obligation or any of the Convention rights (within the meaning of the Human Rights Act 1998).  Officers reported that the neighbourhood plan was compatible with the current EU obligations and recommended that the council ‘make’ the neighbourhood plan part of the council’s development plan.  Cabinet also supported the neighbourhood plan. 

RECOMMENDED: to Council to make the Sonning Common Neighbourhood Plan part of the development plan for South Oxfordshire.