Part 1: Planning Neighbourhood Planning Schedule 1: New schedule A2 to the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004
This Schedule sets out the procedure for making a modification to a neighbourhood development plan. A qualifying body must submit the proposed modifications to the local planning authority. The procedure for making the modifications largely replicates the existing process for making a neighbourhood development order in Schedule 4B to the Town and Country Planning Act 1990, as applied to neighbourhood development plans by section 38A(3) of the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004. However, unlike the process for making a new neighbourhood development plan, examiners are expected to hold hearings only in exceptional circumstances and there is no referendum on the proposed modifications. A local planning authority will be required to make the modified neighbourhood development plan if that is what the examiner recommends (including modifications recommended by the examiner).
	The local planning authority may only decline to follow the examiner’s recommendation where it considers that would breach or be incompatible with any EU obligations or Convention rights.
	This Schedule extends to England and Wales but applies to England only.