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The guidance explains the neighbourhood planning system introduced by the Localism Act, including key stages and considerations required.
Toolkits to support communities to draft their Neighbourhood Plan.
This collection brings together all the notes on neighbourhood planning.
This guidance explains how to implement, monitor and review existing neighbourhood plans.
This guidance contains policy examples that show the power and scope of neighbourhood planning.
Documents and guidance relating to the £1.5 billion Plan for Neighbourhoods programme, which will bring communities together, improve living standards and give people in 75 places more of a stake in their future.
Neighbourhood planners may use this tool to schedule the stages of a neighbourhood plan.
Local planning authorities can now claim for the costs they incur in meeting their neighbourhood planning duties in 2024-25.
Find out which environmental agencies you need to consult about your neighbourhood plan, neighbourhood development order or CRTBO.
This guidance describes each stage in the plan making process.
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