Guidance

How to address regeneration in your neighbourhood plan

This guidance provides practical tools to help with the analysis of an area’s regeneration challenges and to help develop solutions in the form of effective planning policies.

• From: Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
• Published: 24 July 2026

Applies to England

Documents

How to address regeneration in your neighbourhood plan

PDF, 348 KB, 24 pages

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Details

This guidance sets out a framework for analysing the characteristics and needs of an area in regeneration and economic development terms. It also suggests possible content for neighbourhood plans to address a range of local issues and provide a positive framework for growth and development.

It includes:

• an overview of neighbourhood planning, from a regeneration perspective
• a tool for looking at and analysing the causes of decline in an area, and opportunities for regeneration
• a tool for identifying regeneration policies for an area
• actions that can be taken in parallel to neighbourhood plans

We are currently updating our guidance and toolkits. This toolkit is provided for reference but has not yet been updated to reflect recent changes to planning policy. It remains useful as background information, but regularly check the neighbourhood planning page for updates to neighbourhood planning policy and guidance.

Published 24 July 2026