Virginia Water Neighbourhood Plan
On 27 March 2019 members of Runnymede Borough Council Planning Committee resolved to designate The Virginia Water Neighbourhood Forum and designate a modified Neighbourhood Area. The details of the Forum and the Area are as follows:
Name of the Neighbourhood Forum: Virginia Water Neighbourhood Forum
Virginia Water Neighbourhood Forum Written Constitution
Name of the Neighbourhood Area: Virginia Water Neighbourhood Area
Virginia Water Neighbourhood Area
Contact details: Mr John Pyle, info@virginiawaterplan.org
In accordance with The Neighbourhood Planning (General) Regulations 2012 the Borough Council has produced a decision document setting out the reasons for the decision to modify the Neighbourhood Area boundary. The decision document can be found below:
Virginia Water Neighbourhood Area Decision Document
Re-designation of the Neighbourhood Forum
As the designation of a Neighbourhood Forum and Neighbourhood Area lasts for five years, this expired on 26 March 2024. The Council has received an application to re-designate the Forum and Area (with the same boundaries as before - see the map above).
The application to re-designate the Forum and Area (including the Forum’s updated constitution) can be viewed below:
Neighbourhood Forum and Area Application (re-designation)
The proposed boundary and the Neighbourhood Area (unchanged from the previous version) can be seen below:
Virginia Water Neighbourhood Area Map
In line with The Neighbourhood Planning (General) Regulations 2012, the Council is required to publicise the application for six weeks, during which time representations can be made in relation to the proposed re-designation of the Virginia Water Neighbourhood Forum and Area. This period runs from 29 May 2024 until 10 July 2024.
Representations can be made by:
Emailing: planningpolicy@runnymede.gov.uk
Writing to: Planning Policy Team,
Runnymede Borough Council,
Runnymede Civic Centre,
Station Road,
Addlestone,
KT15 2AH
A decision on whether to designate (or not) the Forum and Area will need to made within 13 weeks of the application being publicised. This would therefore need to be done by 28 August 2024. A formal statement in relation to this can be seen below:
What has happened so far?
The Neighbourhood Forum carried out a formal ‘pre-submission consultation’ between on Monday 18 December 2023 and Friday 22 March 2024 on the draft Virginia Water Neighbourhood Plan.
The Forum has received the responses to the consultation and will be reviewing the feedback given in each of them. This will inform the preparation of a consultation statement and lead onto the preparation of the next iteration of the Plan, which lead to the formal submission of the Neighbourhood Plan for public examination. Formal steps in the preparation of the Neighbourhood Plan process will only be able to take place once the Neighbourhood Forum and Area have been re-designated.
For further details about the draft Virgina Water Neighbourhood Plan and how to get involved in the consultation visit the Virginia Water Neighbourhood Forum Website
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