Altrincham Town Centre Neighbourhood Business Plan

On 29th November 2017 Trafford Council decided to ‘make’ the Altrincham Town Centre Neighbourhood Business Plan under section 38 (A) (4) of the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004 as amended by the Localism Act 2011 (Schedule 9), and Regulations 19 and 20 of the Neighbourhood Planning (General) Regulations 2012.

The Altrincham Town Centre Neighbourhood Business Plan now forms part of the Development Plan for Trafford Council and will be used by the Council to help it decide planning applications within the neighbourhood area. The plan can be viewed via the following links:

Altrincham Town Centre Neighbourhood Business Plan

Altrincham Town Centre Neighbourhood Business Plan – Non Statutory Annex

Neighbourhood Area and Forum Designation

The Altrincham Town Centre Neighbourhood Business Forum was formally designated by the Council’s Executive on the 28th July 2014 as the qualifying body in order to prepare the Altrincham Town Centre Neighbourhood Business Plan. The Council also designated the proposed plan area at this time.

Associated documentation in relation to the designation of the Area and the Forum include:

Following its formal designation, the Altrincham Town Centre Neighbourhood Business Forum began the process of preparing a Neighbourhood Business Plan for the town centre.

In order to inform the plans preparation the Forum carried out two rounds of public consultation ahead of the pre-submission consultation, these were carried out in the autumn of 2014 and the spring of 2015.

It should be noted that this Neighbourhood Plan has been prepared by the Business Neighbourhood Forum, not the Council, therefore details in relation to past consultations and any further information on the Altrincham Business Neighbourhood Plan can be found by visiting www.myaltrincham.org or by contacting:

Anthony Collier Chair of the Altrincham Town Centre Neighbourhood Business Forum, MBL House, 16 Edward Court, Altrincham, WA14 5GL.

Tel: 0161 927 2727

Regulation 14 – Pre-submission Consultation

The Neighbourhood Business Forum prepared its draft pre submission version of the plan and published it for public consultation under Regulation 14 of the Neighbourhood Planning (General) Regulations 2012 between 16th January and 29th February 2016.

Regulation 15 - Submission plan

On 30 June 2016 the Altrincham Neighbourhood Business Forum formally submitted its Neighbourhood Business Plan to the Council. This follows three previous rounds of public consultation organised by the Forum. Under Regulation 16 of the Neighbourhood Planning (General) Regulations 2012 it is the Councils responsibility to organise the next formal consultation stage in order to receive comments on the submitted plan.

Regulation 16 Consultation

The Council carried out a six week consultation between Tuesday 30th August and Tuesday 11th October 2016 under Regulation 16 of the Neighbourhood Planning (General) Regulations 2012.

The Altrincham Town Centre Neighbourhood Business Plan and all associated documents are available to view here:

Regulation 17 Examination 

No hearing called

Regulation 18 Publication of Examiners Report

Referendum

Specified documents:

Regulation 19 Decision on the Plan Proposal

Decision Statement.

Regulation 20 Publicised neighbourhood development plan

See the top of page for the final adopted Plan.