The Parish Council took a decision to create a Neighbourhood Plan for the community of Nether Alderley.

Some of you may remember we produced a Parish Plan in 2014, but since then a more powerful Neighbourhood Plan scheme has been introduced across the UK. Neighbourhood planning gives communities direct power to develop a shared vision for their neighbourhood and shape the development and growth of their local area.

A Neighbourhood Plan, it will enable us to play a much stronger role in shaping the area in which we live and work, because a neighbourhood plan forms part of the local development plan, and works alongside the Local Plan.

So decisions on planning applications will be made using both the Local Plan and the Neighbourhood Plan.

About our Neighbourhood Plan

The process was started by Nether Alderley Parish Council after consulting with the community and appointing a steering group to take the process forward. The steering group consisted of Parish Council members and local residents.

A questionnaire was delivered to all households by hand with a return date by 30th October 2018

A visioning and policy mapping mapping workshop was held on 17th January 2019 with the appointed planning consultant  

A public consultation meeting was held on 12th February 2022 at the Parish Hall  Flyer and Newsletter

Copy of the Banner to publicise the event 

This public Meeting Launched a questionnaire to inform the draft policies 

Meeting Content Suggested Draft Policies with Questionnaire to complete and return 

Analysis of responses is to the February 2022 consultation from the Parish Council’s website 

From this a set of objectives and policies were written and again meetings were held where residents were invited to examine these  draft objectives in an informal session.

On the on Friday and Saturday 17th & 18th March 2023  the  consultation version of the Neighbourhood Plan.  was launched with the 2 day drop in sessions with an invite flyer  delivered to all households and posted on the Website and Facebook

The drop in sessions included display boards of all the policies with people were on hand to explain them and take feedback.  The drop in sessions were also the start of the 6-weeks formal so called section 14 consultation which ended on 29th May 2023. It involved consultation with stakeholders including businesses, schools, Alderley Park, neighbouring parishes neighbouring principal councils and agencies. List of Stakeholders. This is the stakeholder letter.

Reponses to Section 14 Consultations, which were considered at the 8th August 20233 Council Meeting Council  

Design Codes were also commissioned produced by AECOM supported by as Locality Grant, to accompany the Neighbourhood Plan following following on site meetings and tours of the Parish 

All this has culminated  in the production of the submission version of the Plan final, a Consultation Statement and a Basic Conditions statement which have been be submitted to Cheshire East Council who then submitted them to an independent inspector prior to the local referendum. 

This was approved by the inspector following a number of amendments and Cheshire East Council is about to hold a local referendum on adopting the Plan into Cheshire East Councils statutory planning framework against which all local planning applications will be assessed.

A simple local majority in favour of the Plan will see that happen

Thanks for your support during this process.