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Community governance review definition

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What does Community governance review mean?

A review of all or part of a principal council's area for the purpose of making specified recommendations about local community governance (see section 79 and generally Part 4 of the Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Act 2007).

The recommendations in question include: the constitution of a new parish; any review of existing parishes; recommendations concerning requisite electoral arrangements and the grouping or de-grouping of parishes. A principal council may undertake a review of its own motion (section 82) or following a valid community governance petition, compliant with section 80, to which the Council has a duty to respond as specified. Guidance on community governance reviews was issued in March 2010 by the Department for Communities and Local Government and the Local Government Boundary Commission for England.

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Introduction to neighbourhood planning

Introduction to neighbourhood planning What is neighbourhood planning? Neighbourhood planning was introduced in England by the Localism Act 2011. It empowers communities to shape the development and growth of a local area through the production of a Neighbourhood Development Plan (NDP), a Neighbourhood Development Order (NDO), a Community Right to Build Order (CRTBO), and once section 97 of the Levelling-up and Regeneration Act 2023 (LURA 2023) is in force, neighbourhood priorities statements. Neighbourhood planning regulations came into force on 6 April 2012. Provisions relating to NDPs, NDOs and CRTBOs came into force on 5 April 2013 and have been amended several times since. See also Practice Notes: • Preparing a neighbourhood development plan • Neighbourhood planning—independent examination and referendum • Neighbourhood development orders Guidance The NDP/NDO must be prepared in conformity with national and local planning policy, and from a date to be appointed, relevant national development management policies. National policy is that set out in the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF). The local plan sets out...

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Who is responsible for maintaining and insuring an unadopted road that has become escheat to the Crown? What options does the Crown have if frontagers refuse to take ownership of a road that the frontagers have rights of way over?

Who is responsible for maintaining and insuring an unadopted road that has become escheat to the Crown? What options does the Crown have if frontagers refuse to take ownership of a road that the frontagers have rights of way over? Escheat As set out in our Practice Note: Dissolution and bona vacantia—dealing with the Treasury Solicitor, when a company is struck off and dissolved, its property will vest in the Crown Estate through the treasury solicitor as bona vacantia. The Crown may disclaim any interest it has in property under the Companies Act 2006, ss 1013 and 1014 for example, because it is not cost-effective to sell the property. The effect of disclaimer is that the property escheats to the Crown. In Fivestar Properties Ltd, Re Justice Cooke explained the concept of escheat as follows: Escheat is an ancient term, denoting the principle that if the interest of an inferior tenant determines or is extinguished, the land reverts to the tenant's immediate feudal lord....

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