Prior to submission to South Derbyshire District Council of the draft Neighbourhood Plan for Findern Parish (2024-2041), we publicised the Plan and conducted the Pre-submission Consultation in accordance with the Neighbourhood Planning (General) Regulations 2012, Section 14.
We invited members of the Local Community, including those who live, work, or have businesses here, and Statutory Consultees, to study and offer comments on this draft Plan. By making a full response to the qualifying body, Findern Parish Council, this helped us to complete the Consultation Process and move forward with the development of the Neighbourhood Plan for Findern Parish (2024-2041), which we hope will be of benefit to the Parish in future years.
The public consultation took place between 10 March 2025 and 25 April 2025.
Over the past year, the steering group for the Neighbourhood Plan has been gathering evidence and commissioning reports about the Parish to write a draft Neighbourhood Plan.
A Neighbourhood Plan gives communities the opportunity to take a pro-active role in developing a shared vision for their neighbourhood and to shape the development and growth of their local area. During the development of a Neighbourhood Plan, members of the community are asked to consider the local issues and concerns that affect them, their families, and their neighbours; and to identify what it is about their neighbourhood that they value and want to protect.
The Parish Council consulted across the Parish to ensure that the final Neighbourhood Plan for Findern Parish (2024-2041) reflected the views of the community. Whilst the Neighbourhood Plan has been produced based on the initial consultation in 2024, we needed to know that the community agree, or otherwise, with the emerging Plan and consider any changes that need to be made.
The Neighbourhood Plan covers the period up to 2041 in accordance with the time frame of the Local Plan for South Derbyshire.
The plan will have significant weight in the determination of planning applications.
The Plan will be used by: –
a) The Planning Service at South Derbyshire District Council (the local planning authority) in assessing future planning applications.
b) Developers as they prepare planning applications for submission to South Derbyshire District Council.
c) The Parish Council in responding to consultations on applications, and
d) Planning Inspectors to help assess planning applications.
The draft Neighbourhood Plan for Findern Parish has been prepared by the Neighbourhood Plan Steering Group with support from of the qualifying body, Findern Parish Council and aided by a planning consultant funded by the Locality Grant Programme.
The plan area covers the Parish of Findern – Map 1a Designated Area
Following the pre-submission consultation, the steering group are now studying the feedback from the consultation and making further amendments to the Plan before submission to South Derbyshire District Council for wider publication and independent examination. It will then be offered for a referendum within the Parish, and subject to a majority vote, will be brought into force within the Statutory Development Plan.
The Survey and all of the research paperwork and findings can be found via the link below. NOTE THE CONSULTATION IS NOW CLOSED.
CLICK HERE for Survey and for all Supporting Documents
Please contact neighbourhoodplan@findernparishcouncil.org if you are having difficulty accessing the links but all of the information is contained within the draft Neighbourhood Plan.
IF YOU COMPLETED THE SURVEY OR ATTENDED ONE OF THE DROP IN SESSIONS, WE WOULD LIKE TO SAY THANK YOU FOR HAVING YOUR SAY ON THE FUTURE OF FINDERN PARISH.
Steering Group for the Neighbourhood Plan for Findern Parish