The Draft version of the St Quintin and Woodlands Neighbourhood Plan has been reviewed by Chistopher Lockhart-Mummery QC.  Such ‘healthchecks’ are recommended for draft plans, to ensure that the various requirements and conditions set out in legislation are met.

The Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors now organises a pool of experts, who undertake these reviews at £375 a day.  We feel fortunate to have had input from such a well-respected planning QC, and this is helping us in our current discussions with RBKC planning officers on the various policy proposals in the StQW Plan.

The report from Christopher Lockhart-Mummery can be seen here.  It supports our view that the proposals in the StQW Plan, while proposing some variations to RBKC policies on conservation and on Latimer Road, have a good prospect of being accepted at the independent Examination stage as being in ‘general conformity’ with the ‘strategic’ policies of the Local Plan and London Plan.

Please note that the version of the StQW Plan reviewed is a slightly later one than that currently published on this website.  We will now be making further edits, to reflect comments from the ‘healthcheck’ and our latest discussions with RBKC planning officers.  The next version published here will be a formal ‘consultation draft’ on which responses will be invited during a minimum 6 week statutory period of public consultation.