Regulation 14 consultation (6 weeks)
You must ask for comments from:
People who live in the area
People who work in the area
Local businesses
Landowners
Community groups
Neighbouring parish and town councils
Statutory organisations such as:
Environment Agency
Natural England
Historic England
Please use our full list of statutory consultees for your consultation:
You should publish the draft plan on your parish council or neighbourhood plan website. Let people know:
Where they can read the neighbourhood plan
How they can send comments
When the consultation starts and ends
You can also use:
Surveys
Public events
Newsletters
Social media
Consider all the comments and make changes where needed and as you go along in your consultation statement.
Local Green Space
Without protection, valuable green spaces may be at risk of loss over time. If you want to protect local green spaces through your neighbourhood plan you will need to show why each space is important.
Use our local green space appraisal template and gather evidence to support your choices.
Local Green Spaces Appraisal template
You must try to contact landowners when doing this.
Environmental checks
Environmental checks should have been undertaken before submission.
Submit your neighbourhood plan (Regulation 15)
When your consultation is finished and changes have been made, you can submit your neighbourhood plan to us.
You will need to send:
Your neighbourhood plan
A consultation statement
A basic conditions statement including consideration of equality impacts
Environmental reports
Email addresses for consultees and any people that made comments on the neighbourhood plan so we can contact them
Send your documents to:
neighbourhoodplanning@cornwall.gov.uk
Consultation statement
The consultation statement explains:
Who you consulted
How you consulted them
What comments you received
How those comments helped shape the neighbourhood plan
We have a template to help you prepare this document.
Consultation statement template
Basic conditions statement
The basic conditions statement explains how your neighbourhood plan:
Follows national planning policy
Supports sustainable development
Fits with Cornwall's planning policies
Meets legal requirements
Considers how different people and communities may be affected with an equality impact asessment
We have a template to help you prepare this document.
Basic conditions statement template
Government guidance
The Government has produced a range of documents in their neighbourhood planning toolkit to help you prepare your neighbourhood plan.
These cover:
We recommend using these guides alongside our advice.
After your neighbourhood plan is submitted
We will check that all the legal requirements have been met.
If your neighbourhood plan is legally compliant we will carry out a Regulation 16 consultation. This gives people another chance to comment on the sumbitted plan. The consultation lasts at least 6 weeks.