The Group noted V16 of the Travelling Draft had been sent to Simon Nott, Wiltshire Council Link Officer who has responded by email with some comments and has requested a meeting once the group have had time to digest and address these.

The Group reviewed the comments:
•    Policies within the Preshute NP must be either new or amendments to the current Core Strategy, they must not repeat what is already there.
•    All policies need to be positively written.
•    The term ‘Development’ does not just relate to building work therefore ‘No Development’ is classified as too restrictive, if used at all it should be very specific to the type of development the Group is seeking to exclude and be backed up by sound reasoning giving an outline of what would be acceptable.
•    Some of the policies are more ‘aspirations’, these should be moved to the end and identified as aspirations.

The group reviewed suggestions from Ian Mellor to the policies which included a pre-amble outlining the lack of policies within the Wiltshire Core Strategy specific to the North Wessex Downs AONB.
It was agreed to remove policy PRES 2 making the existing policy 3 now policy 2.
Additions were made to newly numbered policies 3, 4 and 6.
The original policy 11 was retained and became policy 7 and a new policy 8 about supporting equestrian and agricultural business was added.
The original policies 8, 9 & 10 become ‘aspirations’ under a new heading of ‘Community Aspirations and recommendations to Preshute Parish Council, Wiltshire Council and AONB and voluntary groups’.   

It was agreed to revise the draft to incorporate the policy changes.  Action IM & PM
Cllr Simon Mills agreed to take photos of views to record on maps.  Action SM
Dialogue to be opened with the owner of a piece of land to explore the possibility for very small-scale development.  Action IM & PM
A list of Scheduled Monuments and Listed Buildings to be added to the appendixes.  Action PM

Once the new revisions have been made to the Travelling Draft it should once again be shared with the Wiltshire Council Link Officer and a Zoom meeting arranged.
The Draft will then need to be shared with Key agencies for comment.

The next stage will be to finalise the draft plan to be considered by the PC.  A six-week public consultation would follow.  Any revisions to the plan following the consultation would need to be made and a report compiled.  The final draft should be approved by the PC in January/February and then submitted to WC formally under Article 15 in March 2022.

The group agreed the proposed timelines were currently being met.