neighbourhood planning

Use the community centred example of neighbourhood plans

18.04.2022

Rosie Pearson

Community Engagement | neighbourhood planning | Plan Making - Local & Neighbourhood | planning | UK

The ultimate goal of a local plan should be co-creation with all stakeholders, especially communities,...

Communities should discuss gain with developers on neighbourhood plans

06.04.2022

Charles Welsh

Community Engagement | England | neighbourhood planning | Plan Making - Local & Neighbourhood | planning gain

Neighbourhood planning, as practiced, does not give enough sway to communities to negotiate planning...

News in brief: Twyford backs neighbourhood plan; Report outlines climate change challenges for railway

01.02.2022

Laura Edgar and Prithvi Pandya

A round-up of planning news: Tuesday 1 February, 2022

Pilots launched to inspire people to engage with planning system

12.01.2022

Laura Edgar

christopher pincher | Department for Levelling Up housing and communities | England | neighbourhood planning | Plan Making - Local & Neighbourhood

The government has launched two pilot schemes to encourage more people in urban and deprived areas in England to engage with the planning system.

Carbon offsetting fund needed for development

06.10.2021

Laura Edgar

Separate funds are required to address the challenges of ‘generating popular consent for local housing growth and making new developments both sustainable and commercially viable’, a report recommends.

Appeal: No policy conflict from industrial units

17.09.2021

Huw Morris

Business & Enterprise | East Midlands | industrial estate | neighbourhood planning

A plan to build four industrial units with offices on land not allocated for employment in Northamptonshire has been approved after an inspector found the proposal would not conflict with local policy....

Appeals round-up: Danger from protected trees precludes home beneath; Vacant pub will not make way for houses

27.08.2021

Matt Moody

A round-up of planning appeals: 21 August-27 August, 2021.

Appeal: Housing would ‘drive a coach and horses’ through NP process

27.08.2021

Matt Moody

Plans for 35 homes on the edge of a Sussex village that were contrary to a just-adopted neighbourhood plan have been blocked by an inspector, who commented that allowing the appeal would ‘significantly...

Appeals round-up: Traveller pitch refused in Essex green belt; Airport authority overruled on public safety zone scheme

23.07.2021

Matt Moody

A round-up of planning appeals: 17 July-23 July, 2021

Appeal: Affordable homes allowed contrary to recently adopted plan

23.07.2021

Matt Moody

An inspector has approved plans for 44 affordable homes on a site allocated for only 15 homes in a neighbourhood plan adopted just two months ago, citing ‘clear tension’ between the plan’s aspirations and...

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