Community planning: Neighbourhood planning UK

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A guide to the community-led Neighbourhood Plans introduced by the UK Government’s Localism Act 2011

Neighbourhood Plans - introduction


The Localism Act 2011 is vital to the delivery of the UK government’s Big Society agenda which aims to shift power from central government to the local level. This decentralisation policy provides new rights and powers for community groups and voluntary organisations to:
The Act’s key proposals alter the policy landscape of community planning by introducing Neighbourhood Plans as a new tier in the statutory planning system and providing a series of mechanisms to enable communities to implement their plans, together with a requirement on developers to consult communities before submitting applications for planning permission.


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Thanks:
This page partly funded by the Department for Communities and
Local Government, 2011.





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Nick Wates Associates


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Last updated on:13 November 2012