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8 ICKFORD NEIGHBOURHOOD PLAN : BACKGROUND EVIDENCE REPORT

POLICY RELEVANT OBJECTIVES HOW IT AFFECTS OUR
NEIGHBOURHOOD PLAN

7. Making effective use of land the relationship between the
8. Achieving well designed places Local Plan and
9. Protecting Green Belt land Neighbourhood Planning
10. Meeting the challenge of climate change, should also be acknowledged
flooding and coastal change through close working with
11. Conserving and enhancing the natural the Local Authority. Most
environment importantly, all policies
12. Conserving and enhancing the historic generated throughout the
environment planning process should be
13. Facilitating the sustainable use of minerals cross-referenced against the
The NPPF also provides important guidance relevant section in the NPPF
on the role of Neighbourhood Planning. to ensure conformity.
Neighbourhood Planning is described as a
‘powerful set of tools’ although there are
several conditions attached to its use. Most
importantly:

• Neighbourhood Plans should be in general
conformity with the strategic policies of the
Local Plan and so should support rather
than undermine these policies.

• Neighbourhood Plans should not promote
less development than set out in the Local
Plan.

Aylesbury Vale District This is the current statutory development plan The policies can be considered
Local Plan (2004) for the area. No large scale housing or as an umbrella statement of
employment development is proposed for policy affecting Ickford. They
Ickford parish. The most relevant part of the will be replaced by the Local
Plan is Chapter 10: Rural Areas. Plan and NP as the statutory
‘The strategy of the Plan as a whole is to concentrate development plan for the area.
most development at Aylesbury and then at the largest
rural settlements of Buckingham, Wendover, Winslow
and Haddenham. The general strategy for the Rural
Areas is to apply more restrictive policies controlling
housing development than has been the case in the
past. This is to ensure that most development is in
the most sustainable locations. Therefore, in smaller
settlements, development will be severely restricted,
and in the countryside, development will only be
permitted in exceptional circumstances.’ All policies
except those relating to Green Belt, AONB and
special landscape areas are relevant to
consideration for proposals in Ickford parish.

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