Hi, welcome to my blog site, in which news and views about Neighbourhood Development Planning is the focus, (although I’m sure other things will from…
NDPs and ‘Planning for the Future’: Are we wasting our time?
HM Govt. is consulting on a radical reform of the Planning system to make it ‘fit for purpose’, the aims being to streamline and modernise…
Have your say on proposed England Tree Strategy
Another Govt. consultation is out. A consultation on the England Tree Strategy was launched by the government on 19th June to seek views on how to…
Use Class and PD Reform
New regulations have been introduced to reform and simplify the Use Classes Order. These include: a new broad category of ‘commercial, business and service’ uses…
More funding for COVID measures and ‘deprived’ NDP areas
Govt. has announced increased financial support for NDP groups to reflect the additional costs for communities when preparing and consulting on NDPs during COVID-19 restrictions.…
Cornwall Council climate emergency DPD draft published
Consultation runs from 9am 10 August to 5pm 25 September 2020 Cornwall Council has published its DPD on Climate Change, heralded by the declaration of…
St Cleer NDP successful at Examination and now has ‘significant weight’
The Draft St Cleer Neighbourhood Development Plan was published for consultations on 31st March 2019 for a 7 week period ending 19th May 2019. Over…
Calstock Parish NDP submitted to Cornwall Council
The pre-submission draft of the Calstock Neighbourhood Development Plan (NDP) was published for consultation with the local community from 3rd September 2019 to Monday 21st October…
Falmouth NDP successful at Examination and now has ‘significant weight’
The Falmouth Neighbourhood Development Plan has been successful at Examination. The NDP information was sent to the Independent Examiner on 18 October 2019 and the…
Keep Going!
Because of Covid-19 there can be no Neighbourhood Plan referendums until 6 May 2021 under new regulations made by HMG. In order not to frustrate…
Don’t let the virus stop you neighbourhood planning.
Neighbourhood Plan development involves colts of people getting together and talking, discussing, and agreement, so Covid-19 could be a big barrier to progress! But it…