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2.2. IPC has consulted the local community extensively throughout the
process including a questionnaire, drop-in days and exhibitions to obtain the fullest
view of local community concerns, needs and wants from the Neighbourhood
Plan. Relevant stakeholders have also been consulted including developers and
landowners. Full details are set out in the Consultation Statement and appendices.

2.3. It has also worked closely with officers of AVDC since the start of the
project to collate and examine the evidence base, to design and iterate policy
proposals and to define the proper relationship between the NP and the 2004
Aylesbury Vale Local Plan and emerging policy in the Vale of Aylesbury Local
Plan (VALP).

2.4. The Plan has not duplicated policies, both saved and emerging which
will be used in determining planning applications. This has allowed the
Neighbourhood Plan to focus on a small number of locally relevant and important
policies.

3. Conformity with National Planning

Policy

3.1. The Neighbourhood Plan has been prepared with regard to national
policies as set out in the National Planning Policy Framework 2012 (NPPF) and
the revised Framework of February 2019 and is mindful of the National Planning
Practice Guidance (NPPG) in respect of formulating neighbourhood plans.

3.2. There are four NPPF paragraphs that provide general guidance on
neighbourhood planning, to which the Neighbourhood Plan has directly
responded:

3.3. Presumption in favour of sustainable development:

• Paragraph 12: the development plan is the starting point for decision
making and this includes any neighbourhood plan.
• Paragraph 13: neighbourhood plans should support the delivery of
strategic policies contained in local plans or spatial development
strategies and should shape and direct development that is outside
of these strategic policies.
• Paragraph 14: reminds us of the adverse impact of allowing
development that conflicts with the neighbourhood plan is likely
to be significantly and demonstrably outweigh the benefits provided,
four criteria apply.

3.4. The Parish Council believe that the neighbourhood plan is planning
positively for future development in the parish and supports the delivery of the
strategic policies of the adopted Local Plan as advised in the above paragraphs of
the NPPF. Paragraph 18 and 21 advise that policies to address non-strategic matters
and detailed matters should be included within neighbourhood plans, and the
Ickford Neighbourhood Plan contains such policies.

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