That the Swanage
parish area in Dorset be designated a neighbourhood area.
Scheme of
delegation
Under the Officer
Scheme of Delegation (April 2019), the Executive Director of Place has the
power to ‘make a final determination as to whether to designate a neighbourhood
plan area and/or make such an area a business area’.
The Local Scheme of
Nomination sets out which functions have been nominated by the Executive
Director of Place and any conditions or limitations. This includes the power
‘to designate neighbourhood plan areas (where the Council must exercise its
powers to designate the specified area applied for as a neighbourhood plan
area) and neighbourhood forums’. The only condition/limitation is that the
‘Ward members and the relevant Portfolio Holder being informed’.