Neighbourhood Planning guidance

Neighbourhood planning gives local communities the opportunity to plan for their local areas and decide what the place where you live should look like and how it should develop and grow in the future. 

Neighbourhood planning can be used to:

• choose where new homes, shops and offices should be built
• have a say on what those new buildings should look like
• influence the design and functionality of open spaces around where you live, and
• grant planning permission for the new buildings your community wants to see go ahead

Neighbourhood planning cannot be used to block the building of the homes and businesses considered to be necessary to meet the borough's current and future needs.  However, you can use it to influence the type, design, location and mix of new development.