Report for the consideration of three applications to establish Neighbourhood Planning Forums and Areas within the borough.

DECISION

East Shoreditch Neighbourhood Planning Forum application:

1.            To designate the submitted Neighbourhood Planning Area for East Shoreditch in its entirety for the area within the London Borough of Tower Hamlets (shown on the plan attached at Appendix 1) pursuant to Section 61G of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990.

2.            To designate the East Shoreditch Neighbourhood Planning Forum as the Neighbourhood Planning Forum for the designated East Shoreditch Neighbourhood Planning Area within the London Borough of Tower Hamlets pursuant to Section 61F of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990.

Network Wapping application:

3.            To refuse to designate the Neighbourhood Planning Area submitted by Network Wapping but designate part of the submitted area as the Wapping Neighbourhood Planning Area (shown on the plan attached at appendix 1) pursuant to Section 61G of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 for the reasons stated in section 1 of this report.

4.            To refuse to designate Network Wapping as the Neighbourhood Planning Forum for the designated Wapping Neighbourhood Planning Area pursuant to Section 61F of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990. This is because there remains significant objection to the designation of Network Wapping as a Neighbourhood Planning Forum demonstrating a lack of community cohesion in terms of leadership for neighbourhood planning such that the Council is not satisfied that the proposed forum are representative of the local community to an extent that will lead to successful neighbourhood planning within the Wapping area.

Action by:

CORPORATE DIRECTOR DEVELOPMENT AND RENEWAL (A. DALVI)

(Strategic Planning Manager (M. Bell)

(Principal Planning Officer (P. Farnham)