| Summer 2024 Update The Tavistock Neighbourhood Development Plan Steering Group will be presenting the Submission Draft Plan to Tavistock Town Council Tavistock Town Council Chambers on Tuesday 30th July 2024 at 5.15 pm You are very welcome to view the meeting, virtually only Click here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9lBypTqpnl344vwMiKM6IA  A BIG THANK YOU. .  .…to all local residents who commented on and suggested amendments to the Draft Plan and Design Codes as part of our Reg. 14 Consultation period. Your contributions have been invaluable! A REVIEW OF WHERE WE HAVE GOT TO, SO FAR! This Neighbourhood Plan reflects the priorities and policies that you, the people who live, work and care about Tavistock, said you want shaping the future development of our parish. Following the recent election, the new government’s pledge to reform the planning system and build new homes means that national planning policy will certainly be changing rapidly and more than it has at anytime in the last 10 years. That pledge will bring more housing development to address the housing crisis that was declared recently. However, at the current moment, the one meaningful thing we can do to protect Tavistock’s character and have a say in how it develops in the face of that change, is to adopt this Neighbourhood Plan. This submission version has been amended based on what you told us during the consultation in February and March 2024. We are extremely grateful for the valuable input from the community that we received in response to that consultation and you can read our responses to each comment received in the Consultation Statement presented on our website alongside this plan. The Steering Group will now present the plan to Tavistock Town Council for approval, to submit this to the local planning authorities as a plan that reflects and responds to what you have told us about your vision for the future, the types of sustainable development and infrastructure you want to seein Tavistock. The plan will then come to you again for consultation by the local planning authority, so if you still have any questions or concerns, you will have another opportunity to make representations on the plan. Those comments, once we have responded, will be the final step before the plan is inspected by a planning inspector who will decide if we, as a community, will ‘make’ the plan at referendum. You’ll have your final say when the referendum is presented to you following that inspection. Our hope is that by this time next year, you will have made the plan and West Devon Borough Council and Tavistock Town Council will begin to implement its provisions when new planning applications are submitted within the parish. NEXT STEP The Tavistock Neighbourhood Development Plan Steering Group will be presenting the Submission Draft Plan to Tavistock Town Council Tavistock Town Council Chambers on Tuesday 30th July 2024 at 5.15 pm You are very welcome to view the meeting, virtually only Click here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9lBypTqpnl344vwMiKM6IA To keep up to date and review all our work including the Draft Plan and the Design Codes, visit: https://tavistockplan.info/ You can email us at: [email protected] Thank you for your continued support Stuart Honey Secretary, Steering Group, July 2024  Copyright (C) 2024 TavistockPlan. All rights reserved. |