[38A Meaning of “neighbourhood development plan”]

[38A  Meaning of “neighbourhood development plan”]

[(1)     Any qualifying body is entitled to initiate a process for the purpose of requiring a local planning authority in England to make a neighbourhood development plan.

(2)     A “neighbourhood development plan” is a plan which sets out policies (however expressed) in relation to the development and use of land in the whole or any part of a particular neighbourhood area specified in the plan.

(3)     Schedule 4B to the principal Act, which makes provision about the process for the making of neighbourhood development orders, including—

(a)     provision for independent examination of orders proposed by qualifying bodies, and

(b)     provision for the holding of referendums on orders proposed by those bodies,

is to apply in relation to neighbourhood development plans (subject to the modifications set out in section 38C(5) of this Act).

(4)     A local planning authority to whom a proposal for the making of a neighbourhood development plan has been made—

(a)     must make a neighbourhood development plan to which the proposal relates if in each applicable referendum under that Schedule (as so applied) more than half of those voting have voted in favour

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