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2024 Plan
A Neighbourhood Plan aims to capture the aspirations of residents and put their ideas into a framework to guide the future development, regeneration and conservation of an area - the parish of Lavenham in our case. Our Neighbourhood Plan which has now been in place for 7 years has been updated to make sure that it still reflects the needs of our community.
Following the public consultation (8th December 2022 - 1st February 2023) all comments were reviewed and the Draft Revised Lavenham Neighbourhood Plan and supporting documents were updated/amended and approved at the Parish Council meeting on 27th April 2023.
Babergh District Council (BDC) Reg 16 consultation on the Reg 15 submitted LNP2 - commenced 3rd July 2023 and closed at 4pm on 18th August 2023. To view all representations received during the Reg 16 consultation please see the Babergh District Council website. Lavenham Parish Council has established a Qualifying Body who, along with the LNP2 Revision Group, has reviewed the representations and produced a written response to the examiner which was approved at an Extradrodinary Meeting of the Parish Council on 28th September 2023.
Examination once started could take two to three months. It will be conducted in public, which means all communications will be published on a dedicated web page on the BDC website (link to be inserted when provided by BDC/the Examiner). The examination is currently on hold awaiting the Babergh DC's apotion of the new Joing Local Plan (JLP) Part 1, this is anticpated by the end of November.
If minded to make a significant change, the examiner will normally run a scenario with the Parish Council as to how this can best be done.
Before the end of examination, there will be a Fact Check report. This is a draft report issued by the examiner inviting BDC and the Parish Council to correct factual errors only. This will be followed by the actual final report.
Following the close of the examination, the Parish Council and BDC are expected to work together to prepare a Neighbourhood Plan Referendum. This is for local voters to decide whether LNP2 should be adopted in place of the (current) 2016 Plan.
Reg 16 Submission Documents:
The Submission Draft Revised Lavenham Neighbourhood Plan (sometimes referred to as LNP2)
LNP2 Basic Conditions Statement
LNP2 Modification Proposal Reg 15 Statement
LNP2 SEA/HRA Screening Determinations on the Babergh District Council website:
LNP2 Consultation Statement (main text)
LNP2 Consultation Statement (appendices):
Appendix 11 illustrated version - Communications
Supporting Documents:
Lavenham Landscape Character and Sensitivity Assessment 2023
House Prices in Lavenham Report
LNP2 Estate Agent Survey Report
Maximum size of Residential Schemes
Lavenham Hedgerow Data. Parish Field Boundaries:
Other documents referenced in the Consultation Statement:
Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats October 2021
Presentation to the Parish Council 6th January 2022
Emergency Planning meeting 1st September 2022
AHRA Conference email September 2022
AHRA 2022 Lavenham Book of Abstracts
The following documents were used for the public consultation running from 8th December 2022 through to 1st February 2023 and are for reference only.
Lavenham Neighbourhood Plan 2023 - for reference only (LNP2)
Lavenham Design Guide 2023 - for reference only (LDG)
Lavenham Landscape Character & Sensitivity Assessment 2023 - for reference only (LCSA)
LNP2 Modification Proposal Regulation 14 Statement
Comment form used at the January drop in session
The first stage in the formal process of revising the Neighbourhood Plan was a questionnaire to the residents and businesses in Lavenham, these were completed late summer 2021. The results were analysed and were available to view by the community at two public meetings in November 2021.
Resident and Business Questionnaire Feedback
WE ASKED................
YOU SAID...........
Feedback on the Neighbourhood Plan revision questionnaire (posters on display at the public meetings November 2021)
Read the comments from residents and businesses
Quantative data, provides the details of your responses to all of the questions
Climate change, SWOT, Map and next steps (also on display at November public meetings)
Transcript from Post-it notes left by visitors to the drop-in sessions
Business questionnaire comments
Supporting Documents