High Offley Parish Council has prepared a Neighbourhood Plan for the Parish of High Offley, including Woodseaves, in accordance with Regulation 15 of the Neighbourhood Planning (General) Regulations 2012 (as amended).

The Parish Council has now submitted their Neighbourhood Plan to Stafford Borough Council for independent Examination. The submission of the High Offley Parish Neighbourhood Plan 2011 - 2031 is accompanied by a Basic Conditions Statement, a Consultation Statement and a Screening Assessment.

Please click on the following links to view the submitted documents

• High Offley Parish Neighbourhood Plan 2011-2031 (pdf 4mb)
• High Offley Parish Neighbourhood Plan Basic Conditions Statement (pdf 791 kb)
• High Offley Parish Neighbourhood Plan Consultation Statement including Appendices  (pdf 1.8 mb)
• High Offley Parish Neighbourhood Plan Screening Assessment (pdf 836 kb)

Publication and Consultation of the Neighbourhood Plan

As required by Regulation 16 of the Neighbourhood Planning Regulations, the Council is inviting representations during a public consultation on the submission version of the High Offley Parish Neighbourhood Plan 2011 - 2031. The consultation ends at 12 noon on Friday 29 November 2019.

Please note that following the 25 September 2019 the Publication version of the High Offley Parish Neighbourhood Plan 2011-2031 has subsequently been amended to identify Site 15 on page 16 of the Neighbourhood Plan in line with paragraph 14.1. This reflects the map showing Site 15, which was previously included in the Draft High Offley Parish Council Neighbourhood Plan on page 15, and consulted upon between 1 December 2018 and 19 January 2019. 
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How do I make a comment?

Anyone wishing to make representations on the submitted Neighbourhood Plan is encouraged to submit their comments using a completed response form to forwardplanningconsultations@staffordbc.gov.uk. 

Response Forms (Word 108 kb and pdf 221 kb) are available to download and complete. These must be emailed to the above email address or posted to:    Stafford Borough Council, Forward Planning team, Civic Centre, Riverside, Stafford ST16 3AQ.
Hard copies of the High Offley Parish Neighbourhood Plan 2011 - 2031 are available at Eccleshall and Stafford Libraries as well as at the following locations for inspection only.

• Woodseaves Post Office, Newport Road, Woodseaves, Staffordshire. ST20 0NP Telephone – 0345 611 2970
• The Cock Public House, Newport Road, Woodseaves, Staffordshire. ST20 0NP Telephone – 01785 284343
• By appointment at the Parish Clerk’s house – Black Cottage, Warton, Newport   TF10 8EF.    Telephone – 01952 813798
• By appointment at Councillor Celecia’s house – Park Farm, Park Lane, High Offley ST20 0NB    Telephone - 07929 444332
• By appointment at Councillor Smith’s house – Batchacre Cottage, Shebdon,      ST20 0PX      Telephone - 01785 280648
• Stafford Borough Council, Civic Centre, Riverside, Stafford ST16 3AQ 

Representations must be received no later than 12 noon on Friday 29 November 2019. 

Notification

As part of your representation, you can request to be notified of the Council’s decision whether to make (adopt) the Neighbourhood Plan under Regulation 19 of the Neighbourhood Planning (General) Regulations 2012 (amended).

Next Steps

Following the consultation, the Council will collate and submit all the responses received, and send these to the appointed Examiner, along with the submitted documents so that the High Offley Parish Neighbourhood Plan 2011 - 2031 can be examined.

Following the Examination, the appointed Examiner will produce an Examiner’s Report and recommend if the Plan can be put to a public Referendum. The Council must then consider the Examiner’s report and make a decision on whether to put the Plan to public Referendum or refuse the Plan. If agreed, the Council will arrange a Referendum. If more than 50% of the votes at the Referendum are in favour of the Plan it will form part of Stafford Borough’s local development plan.

Find out more about the High Offley Parish Neighbourhood Plan 2011 - 2031, 

How we will use your details

A schedule of representations will be made publicly available once the consultation(s) has closed. The independent Examiner will consider all representations received, using them to inform the next stage of the process for the High Offley Parish Neighbourhood Plan 2011 - 2031.  Comments cannot be treated as confidential. Your personal information, such as your postal and email address will not be published and signatures will be redacted, but your name and organisation will be made available. We will only use your personal information to send you information on the Neighbourhood Plan and associated planning policy matters.

We believe you should always know what data we collect from you and how we use it, and that you should have meaningful control over both. As part of our ongoing commitment to transparency, and in relation to the new General Data Protection Regulation (May 2018), we have updated our Privacy Policy.

Stafford Borough Council are the data controller and you can find information about how we handle your personal data by visiting www.staffordbc.gov.uk/privacynotices and if you have any queries or would like to unsubscribe from receiving information then please contact forwardplanningconsultations@staffordbc.gov.uk.