Husthwaite Neighbourhood Plan Project

 

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Neighbourhood Plan

Husthwaite Parish Council is pleased to advise you that the draft Husthwaite Parish Neighbourhood Development Plan 2025-2036 is now ready together with a draft Husthwaite Design Code. We invite your comments on both these documents.

 

This is formal public consultation in accordance with Regulation 14 of The Neighbourhood Planning (General) Regulations 2012.

The consultation runs from 4 December 2025 to 23 January 2026 inclusive.  .

During the consultation period we are looking to gather the views of residents of the Parish and other stakeholders , including those who work or carry on business  in the Parish on –

  • The content and wording of the draft HPNDP
  • The content of the evidence basis which is set out in the draft HPNDP
  • The content and wording of the draft Design Code

Your comments  may relate to what is included in these documents or anything which you consider may be missing from the documents. Please be as specific as possible when providing your comments.

Hard copies of the draft HPNDP and Design Code can be obtained by emailing husthwaitepc@hotmail.co.uk.

Hard copies of these documents will also be on display at the Village Hall during drop-in sessions on the following date where members of the Parish Council and HNP steering group will be on hand to answer questions:

Saturday 10th January 10am-4pm

All responses to this consultation must be received prior the end of the consultation period at midnight on January 23rd 2026 and must include your name , address and , if relevant , the name of the business or organisation you are responding on behalf of.

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We are very keen to hear your comments. It is very important to the process that you make your views known to inform the final version of the neighbourhood development plan which will be submitted to North Yorkshire Council.

Note: Husthwaite Parish Council is the data controller of your personal data for the purposes
of applicable data protection legislation in relation to Neighbourhood Plan making. We
are required as part of this formal consultation process to collect names, addresses
and other contact details. However, when publishing the representations received we
will only publish the name of the individual respondent or the organisation that they
represent. All other information will be omitted or redacted.

All personal information will be processed in accordance with the Parish Council’s data protection policy.

A summary of all representations will be made public when the plan is submitted to North
Yorkshire Council for examination.

What Happens Now

Following the launch of the draft Husthwaite Neighbourhood Plan on 4th December 2025, it is now open for public consultation for a period of six weeks until 23rd January 2026.

A ‘Consultation Statement’ will be produced at the end of consultation summarising comments received, issues raised by those comments and describing if and how the plan has been modified in response to the issues raised. This, together with the amended Plan and a statement on how the Plan meets legal and planning requirements will be submitted to the Local Planning Authority
(North Yorkshire Council) who will publicise it and invite comments over a further six week period.

An independent examiner will be appointed by the Local Planning Authority, who will examine the amended Plan and other submitted documents, including comments received. If the Plan is found to be satisfactory by the independent examiner (i.e. it complies with the key legal requirements) with modifications if necessary, then the local authority must arrange for a local referendum to take place. It must give at least 28 working days’ notice before the date of the referendum.
If more than 50% of those voting in the referendum vote ‘yes’, then the Council will bring the plan into legal force.

Why are we doing a Neighbourhood Plan?

Developing a Neighbourhood Plan will give our parish community direct power to develop a shared vision for the parish and shape its development and growth in the coming years.

The new Neighbourhood Plan will update and build upon the old Parish Plan produced in 2007 but will have a greater impact.  Neighbourhood Plans are planning policy documents that can be prepared by local communities. The law says that when a Neighbourhood Plan has been approved (by both the community and the local planning authority), it becomes official planning policy, and must be considered when planning application decisions are made in relation to the Parish. They are a very good way to give local communities a say in the way their area develops in the future.

Once in final form, the draft Plan will be shown to the Local Planning Authority to ensure it is compliant with national and local planning policy and then made available to everyone in the Parish for review and comment before it goes through the final regulatory processes.

See Neighbourhood plan documents for information from the Neighbourhood Plan Steering Group.

More information about Neighbourhood Plans

Please contact Sarah Aspinall via husthwaitepc@hotmail.co.uk if you would like to find out more.