# The Neighbourhood Planning (General) Regulations 2012, Regulation 15: Plan proposals and modification proposals

Extent: E+W

(1) Where a qualifying body submits a plan proposal or a modification proposal to the local planning authority, it must include—
(a) a map or statement which identifies the area to which the proposed neighbourhood development plan or neighbourhood development plan as proposed to be modified relates;
(b) a consultation statement;
(c) the proposed neighbourhood development plan; ...
(d) a statement explaining how the proposed neighbourhood development plan or neighbourhood development plan as proposed to be modified meets the requirements of paragraph 8 of Schedule 4B to the 1990 Act or in the case of a modification proposal, how the neighbourhood development plan as proposed to be modified meets the requirements of paragraph 11 of Schedule A2 to the 2004 Act ...
(e) (i) an environmental report prepared in accordance with paragraphs (2) and (3) of regulation 12 of the Environmental Assessment of Plans and Programmes Regulations 2004; or
(ii) where it has been determined under regulation 9(1) of those Regulations that the plan proposal or the modification proposal is unlikely to have significant environmental effects (and, accordingly, does not require an environmental assessment), a statement of reasons for the determination;and
(f) in relation to a modification proposal, a statement setting out the whether or not the qualifying body consider that the modifications contained in the modification proposal are so significant or substantial as to change the nature of the neighbourhood development plan which the modification proposal would modify, giving reasons for why the qualifying body is of this opinion.
(2) In this regulation “consultation statement” means a document which—
(a) contains details of the persons and bodies who were consulted about the proposed neighbourhood development plan or neighbourhood development plan as proposed to be modified.;
(b) explains how they were consulted;
(c) summarises the main issues and concerns raised by the persons consulted; and
(d) describes how these issues and concerns have been considered and, where relevant, addressed in the proposed neighbourhood development plan or neighbourhood development plan as proposed to be modified.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2012/637/regulation/15 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/neighbourhood-planning-general-regulations-2012/regulation-15
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