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Main Modifications to the Local Plan consultation

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This consultation has closed.

Background

Whether you are planning to undertake a development or want to find out how future development may affect your area, the Local Plan will be of interest to you. We have worked with residents, local and national interest groups as well as service providers in order to produce a Local Plan that responds to the challenges we face around growth and climate change, while providing the guidance that ensures future development meets the needs of the borough and are delivered in an agreed way.

Our Plan is at an advanced stage and will provide the planning framework for development

Background

Whether you are planning to undertake a development or want to find out how future development may affect your area, the Local Plan will be of interest to you. We have worked with residents, local and national interest groups as well as service providers in order to produce a Local Plan that responds to the challenges we face around growth and climate change, while providing the guidance that ensures future development meets the needs of the borough and are delivered in an agreed way.

Our Plan is at an advanced stage and will provide the planning framework for development in the borough until 2036. Having now been examined by a Planning Inspector appointed by the Government, the Planning Inspector has asked the council to make a number of modifications to the Plan in order for it to be capable of adoption. We appreciate your support and involvement so far in the Local Plan process and now invite you to comment on the final Modifications to the Local Plan.


Main Modifications to the Local Plan

Main modifications are material changes to the submitted plan which are necessary to make it sound and legally compliant. A summary of these changes is provided in the Guidance Note for Representations.

Main Modifications are proposed without prejudice to the Inspectors’ final conclusions on the Local Plan. This consultation invites comments on the following documents:

  • Schedule of Main Modifications
  • Sustainability Appraisal of Main Modifications to the Local Plan
  • Habitats Regulations Assessment of Main Modifications to the Local Plan
  • Changes to the Policies Map.

The documents can be viewed on our website. All of the supporting evidence base that has been submitted to the Planning Inspectorate can be found here, and all the Examination documents that have been produced can be found here.

Consultation on the Main Modifications will run from Tuesday 7 May to Tuesday 18 June 2024.


How can I comment?

As with our previous Local Plan consultations, we are required to ask whether the Plan is legal and meets the “Tests of Soundness”. We have produced a Guidance Note to help with making comments and recommend that you use the Representations Forms for making comments.

Any comments should be made using the Main Modifications Representation Form. The Form is in two parts: Part A only needs to be completed once, and Part B should be completed for each representation made and returned along with a single completed Part A.

Comments can only be made on the proposed Main Modifications, not the full draft Plan as submitted. When submitting your comments, please make clear which Main Modification(s) you are commenting on.


What will happen after this consultation?

All comments will be made public and will be submitted to the Inspectors following this consultation. The Inspectors will then consider the responses and prepare a report for the council. Subject to that report the Local Plan will then be adopted by the council.

This consultation has closed.

  • We asked, you said, we did

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    We asked

    The council conducted a consultation on Main Modifications to the Local Plan on behalf of the Inspectors who are examining the Plan.


    You said

    We received 343 representations to the consultation. A large number of representations were related to a major planning application in Edgware Town Centre rather than Main Modifications to the Local Plan, and we have passed these on to the Planning Inspectors for their consideration in writing the Inspector’s Report which we have now received

    We did

    The Inspectors asked the council to comment on the representations as part of our response back to them. We addressed points raised by representors, although the majority of them did not relate to an actual Main Modification in the Local Plan. You can read more about our response.

    The council has highlighted those changes (proposed by representors) to the Plan which it supports. The Inspectors have considered what changes should be incorporated into their Report.

    EXAM 158A - NEW PROPOSED CHANGES TO MAIN MODIFICATIONS & ADDITIONAL MODIFICATIONS.pdf (barnet.gov.uk)

    The council has now received the Planning Inspector's report.

    The Inspector’s report concludes that subject to the recommended Main Modifications set out in the Appendix of the report, the Barnet Local Plan 2021 to 2036 is legally compliant, sound and in general conformity with the London Plan. The council will now proceed towards adoption of the Local Plan in February 2025.