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Deputy Leader and Cabinet Member for Housing and Planning Decision Meeting
Friday, 3rd July 2026 at 2:30pm

 
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1 Cabinet Member Introductions

Councillor Juliet Layton - 0:00:00
Yeah.
Okay.
Good afternoon.
This is a cabinet member decision -making meeting.
And my name is Councillor Juliet Layton and I'm cabinet member for housing and planning.
I'm going to ask the officers in the room and online to introduce themselves.
And at the same time if you could tell us if you've got any interest to declare with regards for this meeting.
So shall we start with online with Mark please.
Thanks Mark Harrison and the neighbourhood plans officer. I do not have any interest
in relation to this agenda.
Councillor Juliet Layton - 0:00:48
Thank you very much and we've got two members of Democratic Services that are running this
meeting running the recording and everything so Julia she has no
Councillor Juliet Layton - 0:01:00
microphone I'm ready so it's Julia Gibson and we also have Tyler here and
if you'd like to introduce yourself and say if you have any interests thank you
Tyler Jardine, Officer - 0:01:12
counsellor my name is Tyler Jardine I'm offering Democratic Services support for
this meeting and I have nothing to declare in relation to this agenda and
Councillor Juliet Layton - 0:01:22
And I don't have any interest to declare either with this, so thank you very much for that, guys.
The meeting is being streamed live and all the meeting papers are also on the website if you'd like to access those.

3 Officer overview of the Report

Today we're meeting to consider the submission of the Sydney and Parrish Council Neighbourhood Plan
and to confirm whether a consultation led by Cotswold District Council will go ahead from Monday 13 July.
So what I would like to do is hand over to Mark who can give us a briefing on this and tell us how that's going.
If there are no members of the public, so if I need any questions, I will ask you questions. Thank you.
Thank you. CS Sydney have been working hard on the neighbourhood plan and are quite collaborative
with us. So we've had a lot of back and forth. They produced a draught plan and then run a
It's called a Reg 14 consultation.
So that's a public consultation that they run and are responsible for.
And we provide the comments on that version of the plan.
They have since taken account of those comments and amended their plan.
They can actually be seen in Annex E, which is called the response log, and they have
now submitted the plan to us.
That's call reg 15, so we need to approve that submission.
So at section three of the main report, I've prepared a sort of table here and that contains
the submission requirements. There's quite a few requirements though. I'll just go through.
plan. So they need to have submitted a map which identifies the neighbourhood plan area,
which is the same as Siddington Parish. So that's within the policies maps, which is
and we've helped them with some mapping of the policies. Also in Annex B, consultation
statements that tells us how so far they've consulted with the residents, landowners,
and its stakeholders, the Reg14 consultation, as I mentioned, and how that sort of contributed
to their plan preparation so far.
So, the consultation statement is Annex D, and the response log is Annex E. It's a point
A and it needs to mention the period that it covers which is a short one, just six years.
I forget the exact reasoning for that but at this point we're not actually sort of judging
what's in the plan and its contents, we'll do that through the next consultation that
I'll come on to. But just today, we're just sort of checking whether they've submitted
the right things that we can progress it. So number four is a basic conditions statement.
That is Annex C. That's quite an important one is checking that it meets the basic condition,
essentially the legal conditions for this to be adopted ultimately.
So then I've just gone through that and checked that they've met each of the basic conditions
A to E. And in that table I've put on which page they've set that out.
They are the new basic conditions because new ones came into effect in March.
So next is point five, which is a screening opinion on strategic environmental assessment,
whether that's required or not.
So I did that back around Christmas.
That is Annex F.
And so I did it jointly. So this also covers 0 .6.
So I did a joint SEA HRA screening.
and just to mention Annex G, Historic England did reply to the screening. There is a couple
of points that have been taken into account, but ultimately they agreed they would need
a full strategic environmental assessment. So that's fine just to have those screening
opinions and not the full assessment. And I haven't received any background papers or
supporting documents. But during the consultation if anyone flags anything we can always say
seek it out and provide it if necessary.
So yes, I feel that everything they submitted everything they need to for reg 15 and therefore
I'd recommend that we accept a submission and then the next stage would be for us to
run a reg 16 consultation.
So that's the six week public consultation.
We will contact everyone.
They contacted it reg 14.
So there's some continuity in the consultation.
and even though we're running the consultation, we'll again have to provide comments ourselves
as the district council. So as usual, I will pester my colleagues for their very good advice
on their specialisms and topics in terms of planning. The intention is to run that on,
start on Monday 13th of July and run until Sunday the 23rd of August so that it ends
before any local plan consultation starts just to avoid confusion of consulting on two
plans at the same time covering the same area. There will be some small financial cost to
running their consultation other than sort of officer time just to print hard copies so that
they're available in Sydington and also in the office in Syrmanchester. It'll be about 150
pounds I think and I'll have to put some site notices up as well.
Yes I think that's all I have to say about it.
Just whether Councillor Layton had any questions then I think?
Councillor Juliet Layton - 0:10:37
That was brilliant, thank you very much. I was following that online with my papers so
So there are a lot of annexes and as there always are,
and the public can access those, which is really good.
Do find it quite interesting that it's up to 20,
they're doing a neighbourhood plan up to 2031,
which actually ties in with our current adopted local plan.
And maybe that was part of the reasoning,
but local plans and neighbourhood plans,
that that neighbourhood plan information will be current, will be valid and as
when we get our new local plan which goes to 2043 and updating the sitting
to one if they need to maybe won't be an issue for them because it's current. I'm
not a hundred percent sure about updating but perhaps you can tell me
about that in a moment.
The other question, when you said about hard copies,
so they'll go into Siddington.
Do we know where they'll be put?
Is that going to be in the village hall
so people can access those?
And you also said, Sire ancestor.
So is that here in the CDC offices in Trinity Road?

6 Cabinet Member Questions

Yeah, that would be in Trinity Road.
So that's just to clarify that.
That was all I wanted to do.
So if you can just clarify maybe my mess up about the 2031 and whether this can get upgraded
a bit for the next our new local plan when that is adopted. Yeah if you can tell us about that.
Yeah you're correct. So that's tied into the current plan because this
sitting to neighbourhood plan that is coming forward can only be assessed against the current
currently adopted local plan. So even though we're preparing a new one, everyone knows
we're preparing it and to an extent what's going to be in it.
We sort of have to pretend it doesn't exist and just sort
of continue on judging the proposed neighbourhood plan
against the existing local plan.
So yes it does make sense for them to tie to that.
In any case places should consider a review
after five years of the neighbourhood plan.
So I would still be within the lifetime of the plan
they're proposing and at which point
there would hopefully be a new local plan.
So that should have tied together quite neatly.
It's just a bit unusual to see a short length
of time for a plan, because they are often 15,
20 or more years.
And yeah, just on the,
there'll definitely be a hard copy in,
the CDC office in Simon Sester.
And we also have to make a copy available in Siddington.
So the village hall would make the most sense.
But I understand that that's not openly accessible at any hour.
So there might be a caveat.
that that that would be by appointment only perhaps to be that one. But luckily Simon
Sester isn't a million miles away from Siddington if if people wanted to come and view the plan
at the offices which have more longer opening hours.
Councillor Juliet Layton - 0:15:03
That's excellent. Thank you.
So I am very happy to go with the recommendations,
which is the Sillington Parish Council Reg 15 submission
of a neighbourhood plan is suitable and accepted
by Cotswold District Council and also CDC led public consultation Reg 16 can commence
starting the 13th of July and concluding on the 23rd of August which is a Sunday. The
reason for that is that as you've explained they've submitted everything, everything is
in order. We've got it all in front of us. It meets all the conditions

7 Decision

that are required and I wish them well and I know it's been a push because we
wanted to get this here so we didn't crash into, as you suggested, we really
didn't want to be crashing into the next consultation on our local plan. So I hope
get a good response to this and I'm sure we will and I'm sure this will go smoothly.
Mark thank you very much, thank you to our dem services here for running the meeting and doing
the recording and I think that concludes the meeting so I think we'll close the meeting there
and thank you.