SARRATT PARISH
NEIGHBOURHOOD PLANSARRATT PARISH
NEIGHBOURHOOD PLAN
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Contact the Clerk:
All email correspondence should be addressed to clerk@sarrattparishcouncil.gov.uk
or telephone (01923) 262025
Visit the Parish Office:
(Located behind the Village Hall)
John Carter
John passed away on 17 November 2023. He was the Chairman of the Neighbourhood Plan Working Committee from its inception, through the public and initial statutory consultation processes.
Sarratt Says "Yes"
The Sarratt Neighbourhood Plan referendum took place on
Thursday 6th November 2025
689 votes were cast (46.1% turnout)
Yes: 666 No: 23
The result is conclusive: on a very high turnout, 97% voted in favour of the Neighbourhood Plan. This means that Three Rivers must adopt its provisions when considering all future planning decisions.
Neighbourhood Plans cannot stop all development, but they do help to prevent inappropriate development and they give local people more of a say in local planning.
Thank you for your strong and clear support, which will strengthen our local voice at a time when the District Council Local Plan and Government planning changes are introducing new development threats.
Sarratt Neighbourhood Plan:
Your Future, Your Plan
On Thursday 6th November 2025 the Sarratt Neighbour Plan referendum is taking place. The polling station will be Sarratt Village Hall.
A Neighbourhood Plan is a planning document. It sets out what things we, in the parish, would like to be considered as part of any planning application or call-for-sites consultation. The Neighbourhood Plan allows us to have different policies to the rest of Three Rivers, in order to address local needs and concerns in Sarratt. For example, to conserve the historic character of villages and hamlets, edge-of-settlement developments will not generally be supported, thus hopefully preventing urban sprawl into green fields.
The Parish Council started the process to make a Neighbourhood Plan for Sarratt in 2018, but it has taken seven years and five statutory consultations, navigating Covid-19 lock-downs preventing public meetings and the sad death of the Chair of the working group, John Carter, in 2023. We would like to thank all those who took part in the Public Consultations ensuring this plan represents local views.
The independent external examiner has now deemed that the Sarratt Neighbourhood Plan meets all legal requirements and Three Rivers District Council have issued a Decision Notice for it to go to a referendum.
If a majority of people vote ‘Yes’ in the referendum, then TRDC must adopt it. A large turnout gives the result more weight as the voice of the Parish.
The plan does not give us a right of veto, but if adopted it must by law be taken into account in planning decisions.
The Neighbourhood Plan consists of twelve policies and is available on this website.
and don’t forget to come to Sarratt Village Hall to VOTE on 6 November!
