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Regulation 14 Pre-Submission Consultation
Pre-Submission Neighbourhood Plan (web resolution 2.5Mb)
Pre-Submission Neighbourhood Plan (14.2Mb)
Comment on the November 2023 Pre-Submission version of the Neighbourhood Plan
Download a form to respond by post or email
In September you gave us your views. The draft Neighbourhood Plan has been amended and we’ve moved to the next consultation stage. This is another opportunity to tell us what you think.
There will be Drop-in consultation sessions at Longueville Hall, Hammond Park, Whaddon Road, Newton Longville MK17 0AT.
• Friday 17 November from 3pm to 7pm
• Sunday 3 December from 2pm to 5pm
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We had a two week consultation period on the Neighbourhood Plan in September. By the time this had ended on the 29th we had received 207 written responses and seen 120 attend one of the drop-ins held at Longueville Hall and the Free Church. We did circulate a leaflet after the event which thanked everyone who had participated but it would not be amiss to repeat the Parish Council’s appreciation here.
Although just under 97% of those who provided feedback expressed support for the Plan with the overall scores for all of the other questions being positive, we did get some useful comments and these were taken into account in an updated draft of the document which went to our Neighbourhood Plan consultant. She sent back a small number of recommendations for further changes which we have also taken into account.
The substance of the draft Neighbourhood Plan has not changed from the version that was so well supported in September. The amendments that have been made are largely presentational, clarifying meaning and justification.
This step into the Regulation 14 Pre-Submission consultation phase marks another milestone in the process to get our village’s Neighbourhood Plan ‘Made’, and we believe we are still on course for this to be completed by May 2024.
We recommend you read through the Consultation Booklet which was issued as part of the November/December edition of the Village Pump and may be downloaded below.
The
Consultation Booklet has several sections:
NP 1. A summary of the feedback received from the September 2023 consultation phase.
NP 2. A summary of the more significant changes made since the September 2023 version.
NP 3. An outline of the Vision, Objectives, Policies and Aspirations as described in the latest edition of the draft Neighbourhood Plan.
NP 4. Information on how you can see or acquire a copy of the full draft Neighbourhood Plan document.
NP 5. Information on the two drop-in consultation sessions listed above.
Downloads:
Pre-Submission Neighbourhood Plan (web resolution 2.5Mb)
Pre-Submission Neighbourhood Plan (14.2Mb)
Comment on the November 2023 Pre-Submission version of the Neighbourhood Plan
Download a form to respond by post or email
Other documents
SEA Screening Report September 2019
Site Options and Assessment Report
Previously
Many thanks to everyone who participated in the two week Neighbourhood Plan consultation, When the consultation period ended last Friday (29 September) in total we had had 120 people attend the drop-in sessions during the first week (excluding a class from the village school who came into the Free Church while we were there to deliver their Harvest Festival gifts to the Warm Spaces group!) That was good but what was even better was that by the end of the final day we had received 207 completed feedback forms, either in paper form or online.
It is pleasing to be able to report that just under 97% of those who gave us their views said that they agreed that they support the draft plan (as it was presented to them for this stage). We are still analysing the many comments but other elements of the draft Neighbourhood Plan also seem to have been supported by the majority (for example, we had 100% agreement that the rural character of the village should be protected, including the green spaces and public rights of way). We hope to complete our analysis in time to get a summary of the outputs out to all residents by the weekend. At the same time we have also started to review the draft plan, comparing the draft with the feedback received to see where changes are appropriate.
The next public stage to get the Neighbourhood Plan finalised is the 6 week Regulation 14 public consultation. More on this will also follow soon.
Again, many thanks to everyone who has contributed so far.
The Newton Longville Neighbourhood plan has been under construction for some time. While the work has been done by the Steering Group and the Parish Council, there have been several occasions when the views of stakeholders (local residents, business and land owners, and those working in the parish) have been sought before this. An obvious example of this was the Settlement Boundary which was defined after consultation in 2021.
With a draft plan almost complete we will soon be able to move to the six week Regulation 14 Pre-submission Consultation on the draft plan. Before we do that, we ran this informal public consultation, seeking feedback to confirm that we have been heading in the right direction.