Cookham Neighbourhood Plan – Supporting Documents

This is the submission version of the Neighbourhood Plan for Cookham Parish. It covers the entire Parish Council area.
It sets out the local community’s aspirations for the Plan area over the period to 2038 and establishes policies in relation to land use and development. These are policies that will influence future planning applications and decisions in the area. But the Neighbourhood Plan is much more than this. It represents the community’s manifesto for the Parish, bringing together more than just traditional planning matters and presents, in the Appendix, a series of wider projects and aspirations that will help deliver change and improvement in the area.

The purpose of neighbourhood planning is to give local people and businesses a much greater say in how the places they live and work should change and develop over time. Neighbourhood planning is designed to give local people a very real voice in shaping the look and feel of an area.

The Cookham Neighbourhood Plan Working Party has surveyed, spoken to and listened to members of the community, and has used the issues, and opportunities, raised during that process to help inform production of the policies and projects now presented in this draft Neighbourhood Plan.

It has been subject to consultation and has been submitted to the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead for the purposes of independent examination. Subject to the recommendations of the Examiner, a referendum will be held, where all people of voting age residing in the Parish will be able to cast a vote on whether they think the Neighbourhood Plan should be brought into force (‘made’).
If more than 50% of those people who turnout vote ‘yes’, the Neighbourhood Plan will be used to help shape planning decisions and applications in the Parish.

> Click here to read the full Submission version.