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Neighbourhood Plans

Neighbourhood planning gives communities the opportunity to direct the development of their areas through creating plans and policies.


Across 2016/17 there were several pilot studies undertaken with councils around neighbourhood planning. Some of the material may still be relevant to current work but not necessarily fully inline with the current NPPF and PPG.

In this section:

DCLG Neighbourhood Planning case studies

In January 2016 the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) awarded over £700k to 22 local authorities to redesign their support

Neighbourhood Planning FAQs

These FAQs came out of Neighbourhood Planning Frontrunner group meetings held over the past few months. These questions have been answered by DCLG.

Plan making - Neighbourhood Plan Project Management Tool

We have produced this simple project management tool that includes the key tasks needed in the production of a neighbourhood plan; with indicative dates as a guide for each task.

Plan making - Neighbourhood Planning: Local authority/neighbourhood agreements

Agreements can differ significantly in their scope and content but we have produced a model service level agreement that can be tailored to suit the needs of individual authorities and Parish Council or Neighbourhood Forum.

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