Neighbourhood Plan
Presenting the council's neighbourhood plan status and documents.
A neighbourhood plan is a community-led, legally binding framework that guides the future development, regeneration and conservation of a local area. It allows residents, employees, and businesses to directly shape their area by defining where new homes, shops, and offices should go and how they should look.
Key aspects of a neighbourhood plan include:
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- Purpose: It sets out a vision and planning policies for a neighbourhood over 5 to 20 years.
- Legal Status: Once adopted following a local referendum, it becomes part of the statutory Development Plan, meaning local authorities must use it to decide planning applications.
- Content:
Plans can designate local green spaces, influence design standards, and address social, environmental, and economic issues
- Requirement: It must conform with national planning policy and the strategic policies of the Local Plan.
Introduced by the Localism Act of 2011, these plans empower local people to determine the future of their surroundings.
This is a short video produced by Locality which explains a neighbourhood plan:
