Thanet council is expected to formally adopt the Westgate Neighbourhood Plan following a referendum which returned a vote in favour of the plan.
Adoption of a neighbourhood plan means it has the same significance as other Development Plan Documents, such as the Local Plan for the relevant neighbourhood area.
Neighbourhood Development Plans set out the vision for an area and the planning policies for the use and development of land within that parish or neighbourhood area. It gives the community a say on where they want new homes, shops and offices to be built, what new buildings should look like and what infrastructure should be provided.
Westgate-on-Sea Town Council prepared a neighbourhood plan which has been examined by an independent examiner and progressed to referendum.
The referendum took place on 31 August and the result was 553 people voted for the neighbourhood plan and 135 voted against it.
As more than half of those who voted, voted in favour, the plan has now come into force and Thanet council must formally ‘make’ (adopt) it within 8 weeks of the date of the referendum.
The only circumstances when the district council can refuse to make the neighbourhood plan is if it is considered it would breach, or be incompatible with any EU obligation or any of the Convention rights.
The Neighbourhood Plan will be part of the decision making process for determining planning applications in Westgate-on-Sea.
The Westgate plan will be discussed by Thanet council Cabinet members on September 21.
It will then be put to full Council on 12 October to be formally adopted.
Great to hear people will be able to fight TDC, let’s hope more area’s will fight this useless council which ever party holds power
I am surprised by this vote TBH
We received the referendum voting papers but there was no information as to what the referendum was for. I searched online and could find nothing there either. unfortunately, I was ill and couldn’t vote anyway but would have had to ask what I was voting for when I got to there. There should have been more information given out for people to be able to vote. No wonder it was a very low turnout.
It took me all of 5 seconds to find this: https://www.westgateonsea.gov.uk/community/westgate-on-sea-town-council-13327/neighbourhood-plan/
And people don’t turn out to vote because they’re apathetic. Look at the shambles of the Brexit referendum.
People don’t turn out because the’re apathetic????? Brexit referendum shambles????
Yet another indignant remoaner twisting FACTS… the turnout in Thanet was 73% and, I might add, a 64% leave vote.
You tell me the last time Thanet had a 73% turnout, or any other constituency for that matter!
So, only 46% of Thanet people voted for Brexit. Not exactly an overwhelming endorsement.
Incompatible with EU obligations !!!! I thought we were out of the EU 😡
Yes, strange wording!
It refers, I think anyway, to EU ‘regulations’ that we had to accept, before we escaped, and haven’t been rescinded yet –
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/neighbourhood-planning–2#EU-obligations-neighbourhood-planning
The Brexit vote was to leave… period. We didn’t have to accept any EU regulations to leave.
It’s only the treachery of Civil servants, the Lords and MP’s (Gale especially) that have led us to this quagmire of ‘still not out of the EU’ after seven years.
Can’t wait to see your posts when the Tories lose the next GE and labour implement their plans for realignment…
The sooner we’re back in the EU the better.
And now we’re actually creeping back in in some areas!
Take the “Horizon” project for scientific collaboration, for example.
Just one of many, many areas where it really would be in the UK’s interest to reintegrate with Europe.
Indeed, we are. But the UK can’t simply abandon reams of legislation and codes. They have to be replaced. And, contrary to Boffo’s assertion, Brexit wasn’t anything like “oven ready”
Not another referendum! No doubt the 135 remoaners will spend years complaining about the legitimate result of Negihxit, wanting another vote & trying to block the progress of this hard working Conservative government.
So hard working, Labour have an average 24 point lead over them across many different polling orgs.
SO hard working our beaches, and the stour are full of sewage, chemicals and agrirunoff.
SO hard working, they sidestepped parliament to make netzero announcements, all to use a dead cat to cover up the online safety bill passing.