Regulations 17 and 18 - Examination
Cheshire West and Chester Council appointed Mr Andrew Freeman BSc (Hons) DipTP DipEM FRTPI as independent examiner of the neighbourhood plan (NP) and neighbourhood development order (NDO). He will consider the plan and all comments made.
Mr Freeman wrote to the Council and the Qualifying Body (Blacon Neighbourhood Forum) on 19 February 2026 with some questions and to clarify some initial procedural matters:
Cheshire West and Chester Council responded to Mr Freeman's questions on 3 March:
Regulation 16 - Neighbourhood Plan publicity stage consultation and Regulation 23 - Neighbourhood Development Order consultation
The proposed plan and Neighbourhood Development Order have now been submitted to Cheshire West and Chester Council and a period of publicity took place between Thursday 11 December 2025 and 5pm on Friday 30 January 2026. You can read all comments which were submitted during this period below:
Regulation 14 - Pre-submission consultation
The regulation 14 consultation ran from 25 March to 22 July 2025
Regulations 5, 6 and 7 - Neighbourhood Area designation
An application was made to designate Blacon Neighbourhood Alliance Neighbourhood Forum and Blacon Neighbourhood Area for the purposes of producing a Neighbourhood Plan for the area.
Following a six week consultation period, Blacon Neighbourhood Alliance Neighbourhood Forum and Blacon Neighbourhood Area were designated on 22 August 2023.
- Blacon Neighbourhood Forum - delegated report (PDF, 1.01MB)
- Blacon Neighbourhood Area - delegated report (PDF, 559KB)
- Blacon Neighbourhood Area map (PDF, 2.37MB)
- Blacon neighbourhood area and neighbourhood forum - application notice (PDF, 497KB)
The secretary of the Neighbourhood Forum can be contacted by email at secretary@blaconneighbourhoodalliance.co.uk