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Neighbourhood Planning Process Explained

To Start

The Parish Council asked Cornwall Council to 'designate' the area as a Neigbourhood Plan Area. That gave the go-ahead to start preparing the Plan.

Then a Steering Group was formed that is managing the process on behalf of the Parish Council. It is made up of Parish Councillors and members of the community. 

Grant aid was then obtained from central government to help cover the costs, including funding to get support from a planning consultant experienced in Neighbourhood Planning processes. 

First Steps

With the organisation in place, a 'scoping survey' was carried out to find out what local people, businesses and organisations thought about Pentewan Valley and what were the issues they thought the Plan should cover. You can see the results of the survey by going to this page: https://www.pentewanvalleypc.uk/community/pentewan-valley-parish-council-7837/public-consultation-results/

Then work was started in gathering the social, environmental and economic evidence needed to support the Plan and ensure that its policies were fully justified. Alongside this work the drafting of the first version of the Plan was put in hand.

What happens next?

Before we can finish drafting the Plan, we need to get some more finely-tuned community feedback on key issues. A community survey to get that information starts this month, October 2024.

We will use the information gathered, along with other information on the character, heritage, natural environment and on climate change impacts to finish preparing the first full draft of the Neighbourhood Plan.

That then gets sent to Cornwall Council for it to advise us whether a Strategic Environmental Assessment [SEA] of the Plan is required.

The draft Plan, along with the SEA if its required, will then be published for at least 6 weeks of formal consultations with the community of Pentewan Valley Parish, and with various statutory bodies.

After that the Plan will be revised to take into account any comments made in that consultation, and submitted to Cornwall Council. It will then go through an Independent Examination, led by an expert, before being put to a Local Referendum.

Why a Local Referendum?

The Local Referendum of all those registered to vote in the Parish will say whether the Plan be adopted and used to decide on future planning application decisions in our Parish. If the vote is ‘yes’ then we will have a local Plan for the Parish, drawn up by the community of the Parish, and approved by the community of the Parish. That means we should see more planning decisions that reflect what the local community actually wants to see in the future.