Issue - meetings

To consider the progression of the Holme Valley Neighbourhood Development Plan to referendum.

Wards affected: Holme Valley North, Holme Valley South

Officer: Johanna Scrutton – Planning Policy Team Leader

1)    That approval be given to the Independent Examiner’s recommendations (as at Appendices 2 and 3) to amend the Holme Valley Neighbourhood Development Plan (as at Appendix 4) and for the plan to proceed to referendum in accordance with the requirements as set out in the Neighbourhood Planning (General) Regulations 2012 (as amended) and the Neighbourhood Planning (Referendum) Regulations 2012.

2)    That approval be given for the following ballot question to be asked at the local referendum, ‘Do you want Kirklees Council and the Peak District National Park Authority to use the neighbourhood plan for the Holme Valley Neighbourhood Area to help it decide planning applications in the neighbourhood area?’

3)    That approval be given to the Decision Statement on the Examiner’s recommendations and its publication, as set out at Appendix 3.

4)    That authority be delegated to the Strategic Director for Growth and Regeneration to make any further modifications to Holme Valley Neighbourhood Development Plan that relate exclusively to factual updates, grammatical and formatting corrections for the purposes of finalising the Neighbourhood Development Plan.

5)    That, subject to a referendum result which supports the Holme Valley Neighbourhood Development Plan (ie, more than 50% of votes favour the plan), Cabinet recommend that Council ‘make’ the Holme Valley Neighbourhood Development Plan, at which point it forms part of the development plan for the Holme Valley Neighbourhood Area alongside the Kirklees Local Plan.