What is a neighbourhood development order?
A Neighbourhood Development Order is a tool that allows the granting of planning permission for specified types of development without the need to submit plans to the District Council. The planning permission granted by a Neighbourhood Development Order can be granted in full or outline.
What is meant by Neighbourhood planning?
Neighbourhood planning gives your community the opportunity to plan for your local area, to decide what the place you live in should look like and define how your neighbourhood should grow and change in the future.
What are the basic conditions for a Neighbourhood plan?
The basic conditions for neighbourhood plans are that they must: have regard to national policy; • contribute to the achievement of sustainable development; • be in general conformity with the strategic policies in the development plan for the local area; and • be compatible with EU obligations.
What is the difference between a local plan and a Neighbourhood plan?
Neighbourhood Plans are a powerful tool to shape their local area, as Neighbourhood Plan policies take precedence over non-strategic Local Plan policies in decision-making. In other words, the Neighbourhood Plan “trumps” the Local Plan (on certain matters).
What is the status of a Neighbourhood plan?
A neighbourhood plan attains the same legal status as a local plan (and other documents that form part of the statutory development plan) once it has been approved at a referendum. At this point it comes into force as part of the statutory development plan.
What is the Neighbourhood plan for Cam?
Why produce a Neighbourhood Plan for Cam? A Neighbourhood Plan is a new type of document introduced in the Localism Act 2011. It is part of the district’s development plan and has legal weight. It allows local people to say how they want to see the future development of their parish or town.
Is a Neighbourhood plan a development plan document?
What is the purpose of a Neighbourhood plan?
What is neighbourhood planning? Neighbourhood planning gives communities direct power to develop a shared vision for their neighbourhood and shape the development and growth of their local area.
What is Neighbourhood planning in architecture?
Introduction. A neighbourhood plan gives a community powers to influence future changes to an area. Understanding how your place works will inform your vision within the plan, which will describe and illustrate the principles guiding future development.
How long does it take to prepare a Neighbourhood plan?
How long does it take to write a Neighbourhood Plan? It will be up to individual areas to decide on the pace at which they wish to progress their plans. However it is anticipated that on average the process is likely to take between one and two years.
What happens if a Neighbourhood plan is rejected?
If the public then reject the Plan at the referendum stage, we simply won’t have a Plan and as already explained, AVDC will then decide how many and where developments in our parish will take place.