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Southbourne Parish Neighbourhood Plan 2024

On 27th February 2024 Chichester District Council approved the Southbourne Parish Neighbourhood Plan. This means that Southbourne Parish Council has a new ‘Made’ Neighbourhood Plan.

We would like to take this opportunity to thank all of those Councillors (current and former) and volunteers who worked tirelessly to create the plan and to all of the members of the public who worked with the Parish Council and Steering group, engaged with the process and turned out to vote at the Referendum.

What a ‘Made’ Neighbourhood Plan Means for Southbourne:

Southbourne Parish Neighbourhood Plan review

Referendum (now complete)

Following examination of the plan, Chichester District Council Cabinet approved that the Southbourne Parish Neighbourhood Plan can go to referendum. The referendum took place on 25th January 2024.

Examination of the SPNP3 (now complete)

In 2023 Southbourne Parish Council prepared a Modified Neighbourhood Plan (NP3) which was examined by an external examiner. The next stage for the plan was public referendum.

Conclusion of the Examination (now complete)

On 14th November 2023 Council agreed to make the amendments to the NP3 as recommended by the Examiner. The next stage is to submit the final version of NP3 to CDC in time for them to take it to cabinet on 5th December. Should this take place we then anticipate that the referendum procedure will start on 25th January.

Examiner’s report Oct 2023
Decision Statement

Submission Plan Process

Initial Comments of the Independent Examiner

Response to Examiners Questions

The Basic Conditions Statement

The Consultation Statement

The Sustainability Appraisal

The Habitat Regulations Assessment

Submission Modified Plan

All the documents currently listed on the Parish website in relation to the Pre-Submission Plan will remain available to view, including the “Schedule of Evidence” which supports the Neighbourhood Plan as a whole, and the “Supporting Evidence” which supports specific policies. Two items have been added to the “Supporting Evidence” relating to Policy SB16 Local Green Spaces (LGS). These additions set out the reasons for deleting the Local Green Space at Parham Place (No.6 in the Pre-Submission Plan) and include the list of proposed LGSs renumbered accordingly (NP3 SB16 EV3 LGS Consultation Results Jan 2023 and NP3 SB16 EV4 Proposed Local Green Spaces Jan 2023)

Key Documents

THE PLAN (NP3)- SPNP Pre Submission Modified Plan October 2022
Sustainability Appraisal (Incorporating Strategic Environmental Assessment) (July 2022)
Habitat Regulations Assessment

Schedule of Evidence

This contains all those documents (listed below) collected and reviewed in the process of preparing the Southbourne Parish Neighbourhood Plan (Pre-Submission Modified Plan) 2014-2029. Most of them have been issued by the government and/or Chichester District Council. These documents are also listed in Appendix B to the Modified Plan.

Please note that many of the links will take you to web pages or documents outside the Southbourne Parish Council website and for which the Parish Council is not responsible.

Supporting Evidence

This contains the documents, the majority having been prepared by the Parish Council, which include the more local issues considered in preparing the Plan policies. They are listed under the Plan Policy numbers. For example, If you would like to look at the evidence relating to the Local Green Spaces (Policy SB16) the evidence to support that policy can be viewed by clicking on the corresponding link (e.g. for Local Green Spaces click on NP3 SB16.EV1 Local Green Spaces).