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Planning and how it works in the Town
The Town Council is not a Planning Authority and therefore does not determine planning applications. In the civil parish of Newby and Scalby there are two organisations which carry out a decision-making role in planning applications – North Yorkshire Council and the North York Moors National Park. If you live in the national park then all planning applications are determined by the North York Moors National Park. If you live outside the national park, then they are determined by North Yorkshire Council.
Regardless of who decides a planning matter in the parish, both North Yorkshire Council and the North York Moors National Park manage planning applications along broadly the same lines – each manages the planning process for their area and receives, assesses and approves/rejects planning applications.
Also each authority has a long term ‘Local Plan’. Once adopted the Local Plan is a statutory document which sets out planning policy for the next 15 to 20 years and forms the basis for determining planning applications. There’s more on Local Plans further down the page.
So what’s the Town Council’s role in all this? We’re formally consulted by North Yorkshire Council and the North York Moors National Park on planning applications within the civil parish of Newby and Scalby. When the Council receives a letter of consultation, the Clerk informs all councillors of the details. The application is then considered at a meeting of the Planning Committee (or a Town Council meeting if that is sooner).
The days of being able to study paper plans are, unfortunately, long gone – everything is now online. The Clerk either downloads relevant plans from the planning sections of the North Yorkshire Council or North York Moors National Park websites and prints them off on A3 paper so they can be studied in detail or displays the relevant plans on the large screen TV in the hub meeting room.
Members of the public can attend Planning Committee and Town Council meetings and make representations, especially if the particular application affects them; all comments made are taken into account when the formal reply is agreed.
Some of the things councillors consider when looking at a planning application are:
- The proximity to neighbouring boundaries.
- Design of the application against other properties in the area.
- Street scene (how it will look from the street it is in).
- Scale of the design.
- Suitability of the proposed use
- Impact on the surrounding area
- Topography, and in some cases any tree preservation orders.
The Clerk notifies the planning authority of the comments agreed. Objections have to be based on material planning considerations so, if an application has been objected to, the grounds for objection will be referred to in those comments.
Once the planning application is being considered by the planning officer or planning committee of the higher authority, then it is for them to ensure the material considerations relevant to any particular application are weighed in the final decision process according to their seriousness and relative importance.
The Local Plan
Once adopted a Local Plan is a statutory document which sets out planning policy for the next 15 to 20 years and forms the basis for determining planning applications. It will include which sites will be released from the greenbelt and will be developed.
Scarborough Borough Council’s Local Plan runs from 2011 to 2032 (though it will over time be replaced by a North Yorkshire Council local plan). The current local plan intends that circa 1400 new homes are built in the next 10 years or so; 1200 are in Scalby (with just over 1100 on greenbelt sites on the outskirts of Scalby). The other 200 are in Newby (or just over the boundary) but less than 60 will be on greenbelt land. These proposals will increase the population of the parish by somewhere between 35% and 40%.
The North York Moors National Park’s Local Plan runs from 2016 to 2035. It does not show there are plans for any large developments, hence any new homes are likely to result from the conversion of existing buildings.