THRIPLOW NEIGHBOURHOOD PLAN

Neighbourhood Plan Consultation
30 January to 14 March 2023

The pre-submission version of the Thriplow and Heathfield Neighbourhood Plan is being published in accordance with Regulation 14 of the Neighbourhood Planning (General) Regulations 2012 (as amended) https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2012/637/regulation/14

The consultation period runs from
Monday 30 January to Tuesday 14 March 2023.

The full pre-submission version of the Plan: click to view
Summary of the plan: click to view
Supporting documents to the plan:

Thriplow and Heathfield Neighbourhood Plan Development Brief for the Grainstore Site 2022 click to view
Thriplow & Heathfield Parish Character Assessment 2020 click to view
AECOM Neighbourhood Masterplan for Heathfield 2022 click to view
Site assessment work, last updated December 2020 click to view
Thriplow and Heathfield Site Selection: Landscape and visual sensitivity click to view
Housing Needs Survey 2018 click to view
A Demographic and Socio-Economic Review of Thriplow Parish, November 2019 click to view
Strategic Environmental Assessment click to view
Habitats Regulations Assessment Appropriate Assessment click to view

Paper copies of the plan are available on request by contacting
Philippa MacGarry on 01763 208 002
or Martyn Corbet on 01223839546

How to respond to this consultation

You are invited to give us your feedback by using one of the following methods:

By completing the online comments form
Requesting a paper copy of the comments form by contacting Philippa MacGarry on 01763 208 002 or Martyn Corbet on 01223839546

ONLINE COMMENTS FORM

PLEASE NOTE: We are unable to process anonymous comments for this consultation as this is a formal stage of consultation on the Plan before it is submitted to South Cambridgeshire District Council/Greater Cambridge Shared Planning.

Comments received will be reported in a consultation statement which will be submitted alongside the plan. If you are responding on the behalf of an organisation, your name and organisation will appear too. The consultation statement will be made public.

On submission of the Plan, Thriplow and Heathfield Parish Council is required to share contact details of consultees (those that have commented at this pre-submission stage) with South Cambridgeshire District Council/Greater Cambridge Shared Planning so that they can discharge their legal duties in relation to publicising the submission of the plan, in accordance with the Neighbourhood Planning (General) Regulations 2012 (as amended).

By submitting a consultation response at this stage, you authorise Thriplow and Heathfield Parish Council to legally collect and share your data in this manner.

Strategic Environmental Assessment

The Thriplow and Heathfield Neighbourhood Plan is being subject to strategic environmental assessment (often referred to as SEA). An SEA is required for some types of planning policy documents. It is a tool used at the plan-making stage to assess the likely effects of a plan on the environment when judged against reasonable alternatives.

As part of the SEA process, an environmental report has been prepared. Prior to this, an SEA scoping report was prepared. One of the purposes of the SEA scoping report is to agree a methodology in undertaking the environmental assessment. The views of Natural England, Historic England and the Environment Agency were sought following the drafting of the SEA scoping report.

SEA ENVIRONMENTAL REPORT
SEA SCOPING REPORT

You can give your feedback on the SEA work by sending an email to parishclerk@thriplow.org.uk

Habitats Regulation Assessment

In June 2022 and following a screening process, Greater Cambridge Shared Planning determined that, there is a potential impact between the policies in the Thriplow and Heathfield Neighbourhood Plan and protected species in the Eversden and Wimpole Woods Special Area of Conservation. An appropriate assessment was therefore undertaken of the draft Plan.

This assessment is described and reported in Chapters 4 and 5 of the SEA/HRA Screening Report, available at the link below. The assessment concludes that subject to recommendations being incorporated and Natural England’s review, the Thriplow and Heathfield Neighbourhood Plan is not predicted to have an adverse impact on the integrity of the habitats site, either alone or in combination with other plans and projects.