A meeting of the Ockley Parish Council NDP team and steering group will be held on Wednesday 12th August at 7pm in Ockley Village Hall.
Work has resumed on our Neighbourhood Development Plan and an update will be posted here soon.
The Topics being covered in the NDP are currently expected to be
Papers are being written on each topic to inform the policies that we will recommend going forward in the NDP.
So the next phase is to prepare topic papers (evidence papers) on each of these five subjects.
You will have seen the email that James G sent on Monday (23rd May) suggesting that we send two letters to MVDC asap to seek an opinion on whether we can leave out a Strategic Environment Assessment and a Habitat Regulation Assessment from our NDP. Lesley is in process of sending these to MVDC and we will circulate when available – together with MVDC’s response in due course.
Further to the above report we have now received clearance from MVDC in which they also confirm that clearance has been received from Natural England, the Environment Agency and Historic England. The response can be found in the document section under the title of Strategic "Environmental Assessment and Habitats Regulation Assessment Determination Report"
I am about to ask Iain Gutteridge to design a website extension to the OPC website to provide a window on the NDP world for our residents. I am intending this to be relatively simple
There will be four sections
Button to return to main OPC home page.
The section on Background will not change (or at least not much) but will provide a section on what an NDP is and why we are doing it.
The Glossary is where we can provide an explanation of different terms and concepts that might be used but may not be fully understood by the public (such as affordable housing, rural exception sites, CIL, etc.).
The section on News will provide a series of blogs on where we have got to and what everyone is doing – idea is to update this blog every week or two.
The Document Library will include all the documents that we are using such as Registration, Maps, Character Appraisal, Survey, Vision. The idea is that as we move forward this will become the Examination Document Library that will be used for the reg 14 consultation, the submission to MVDC and eventually the examiner.
I hope this is a useful review of actions being taken. Your comments will of course be welcome.
