How is the Neighbourhood Plan made (adopted)?
Following a successful referendum of the neighbourhood plan, we will formally make the neighbourhood plan. This means the neighbourhood plan will form part of the local development plan. The policies will carry full weight when assessing planning applications in the neighbourhood area.
Please publish the neighbourhood plan on your website. You will now be allocated 25% of the neighbourhood part of CIL to support the delivery of infrastructure projects. You may want to identify a priority list of projects and publish this on your website or as an appendix to the neighbourhood plan.
How do you monitor and manage your neighbourhood plan?
This may feel like the end of the process but it is important to check how your policies are performing. As planning applications come forward, you should assess them against the policies in your neighbourhood plan. Please highlight any areas of concern.
Responding to planning applications guide note
You may want to make changes to your neighbourhood plan from housing needs challenges and development boundaries to site allocations. Reviewing your neighbourhood plan will help ensure that the policies remain up-to-date in respect of decisions on planning applications/appeals and changes in national legislation. Our annual monitoring reports can help you assess whether you need to review your plan.
If you are thinking of reviewing your neighbourhood plan, our current advice is to wait until national planning changes have been made. There is significant change proposed to the planning system, including housing numbers and a need for us to produce a new Local Plan. Waiting until we know the impacts of those changes will ensure that any work that goes into your new plan from allocations to policies will be up-to-date and robust.
Grant allowances from Locality are currently reset if you are reviewing a made plan.