Maids Moreton Neighbourhood Plan

Information here last updated 4 March 2023

In July and August 2022, Maids Moreton Parish Council made available a consultation draft of its

Neighbourhood Plan and invited comments from statutory consultees as well as from the wider

public. All comments received were considered and, where appropriate, changes were made to the

draft version of the Plan in response to these comments.

The Parish Council will now submit the updated Plan to Buckinghamshire Council under Regulation

15 of the legislation on neighbourhood planning. In addition to the updated version of the Plan

(Maids Moreton NP Mar 2023 V10.3) the legislation requires two other documents be submitted.

These are the Consultation Statement, which describes the consultation process undertaken, lists all

the comments received during the formal (Regulation 14) consultation and the response made as

well as the Basic Conditions Statement, which explains how the Neighbourhood Plan meets the Basic

Conditions and other legal requirements.

Copies of these three documents can be downloaded from the links at the foot of this webpage. Note

that the Neighbourhood Plan itself has been compressed to make downloading quicker and to avoid

taking up excessive disk space. All that has been changed by compression from the original document

is the resolution of images but all are still perfectly readable on screen or when printed out at normal

size.

In addition to these three documents, which meet the legal requirements (the plan of the

Neighbourhood Area is within the Plan itself) there are also an Updated Heritage Report and a

collection of Background Documents. The former gives greater detail on the built and natural

heritage of Maids Moreton while the latter, which is a rolling document, includes more detailed

information on a wide range of issues to show how and why the Plan has the form it has taken.

Copies of both of these two additional documents can also be downloaded from links at the foot of

this page together with detailed reports on four traffic surveys undertaken between 2013 and 2020.

These have been made available as the level and speed of traffic within the village is a matter of

great concern to most if not all residents.

Buckinghamshire Council is now responsible for checking that the submitted Neighbourhood Plan has

followed the proper legal process, such as the neighbourhood area being designated and the legal

requirements for consultation and publicity having been followed Once it has satisfied itself on these

matters, the Council will then publicise the Plan and arrange for an independent examination of the

plan. The six-week publicity period (Regulation 16) gives people who wish to do so an opportunity to

make representations that will be passed to the independent examiner.

Publicity under Regulation 16 should not be confused with the earlier pre-submission consultation

(Regulation 14); the two are quite different. Regulation 14 consultation, which was done last year,

allowed anyone to comment on any aspect of the plan and for modifications to be made, if

necessary. Following the Regulation 16 publicity period, any representations made will be passed to

the independent examiner. This means that they will only be considered within the remit of the

independent examination (i.e. whether the neighbourhood plan proposal meets the basic

conditions).

The examiner will issue a report to the local authority and to us as the neighbourhood planning body.

If the plan meets the basic conditions, the examiner will recommend that the plan proceed to the

referendum stage. However, they may, and usually do, recommend modifications that need to be

made to the plan in order to meet the basic conditions before it can proceed to the referendum.

If you need further information, please contact our Vice Chair, Pat Hardcastle phardcastle@maids-

moreton.co.uk who leads on this process for us.

More about the Neighbourhood Plan
Neighbourhood Plan Documents