The Acting Head of Planning Services submitted a report to the City Executive Board on 10 April asking the Board to recommend Council that the Summertown and St. Margaret’s Neighbourhood Plan be “made”.

The minutes of this meeting are available at Item 11 of this agenda.

Councillor Hollingsworth, the Board Member for Planning and Transport, will present the report.

Recommendation: the City Executive Board recommends to Council that the Summertown and St. Margaret’s Neighbourhood Plan be “made”.

Council considered a report of the Acting Head of Planning Services submitted to the City Executive Board on 10 April. The City Executive Board recommended to Council that the Summertown and St. Margaret’s Neighbourhood Plan be “made” (formally adopted).

Councillor Hollingsworth, the Board Member for Planning and Transport presented the report and moved the recommendations, which were adopted on being seconded and put to the vote.

Council resolved that the Summertown and St. Margaret’s Neighbourhood Plan be “made”.

The Acting Head of Planning Services has submitted a report ask the City Executive Board to recommend to Council that the Summertown and St. Margaret’s Neighbourhood Plan be “made”.

Recommendation:That the City Executive Board resolves to:

Recommend to Council that the Summertown and St. Margaret’s Neighbourhood Plan be “made”.

The Acting Head of Planning Services had submitted a report ask the City Executive Board to recommend to Council that the Summertown and St. Margaret’s Neighbourhood Plan be “made”.

Mr Bob Colenutt addressed the Board briefly in his capacity a member of the Neighbourhood Forum Steering Group. The Plan was the product of cross-party and community effort. Support for the plan had been robustly demonstrated by the outcome of the recent referendum. He thanked officers for their work and assistance in getting the plan to this point and for facilitating the referendum.

The Board Member for Planning and Transport (Councillor Alex Hollingsworth) thanked all those who had supported development of this Plan over a long period of time, the work involved had been considerable. On the officer side, he paid particular tribute to the role played by Tom Morris.  He reminded the Board that all neighbourhood plans would have to be compliant with the council’s new Local Plan once it was finalised and care would be taken to see that any necessary fine-tuning to the Summertown and St Margaret’s Plan was completed as smoothly as possible.

The Chair concluded by thanking the many volunteers who had contributed to its development over time.

The City Executive Board resolved to:

Recommend to Council that the Summertown and St. Margaret’s Neighbourhood Plan be “made”.