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Background Documents

These are selected documents which have a direct bearing on the process and production of our Neighbourhood Plan. More will be added if found to be useful.  We have attempted to give a brief description of their content.

• Neighbourhood Planning - What is neighbourhood planning? - There are some 'ground rules' for Neighbourhood Plans:
• " they must generally be in line with local and national planning policies.
• " if the local planning authority says that an area needs to grow, then communities cannot use neighbourhood planning to block the building of new homes and businesses; they can, however, use neighbourhood planning to influence the type, design, location and mix of new development.
• " neighbourhood plans must contribute to achieving sustainable development

• A one page guide produced by the Royal Town Planning Institute - an excellent, brief, summary.
• Neighbourhood Planning Road Map Guide - This is essential reading for anyone who wishes to know more about the process or answer more detailed questions about the process and getting it started. You can ignore references to Neighbourhood Forums as that is applicable to Pirton.
• Neighbourhood Planning Road Map Guide Worksheets - This gives a step by step guide to the process and may form the basis our programme of work and the Steering Group’s agenda for meetings.
• A Plain English Guide - This a guide to the Localism Bill is 24 pages - potentially will save you reading (and struggling to understand) the '481' pages (below) of the Localism Act 2011.

More if you wish:

• National Planning Policy Framework - This sets out the Government’s planning policies for England and how these are expected to be applied.At the heart of the NPPF is the presumption in favour of sustainable development which should be seen as the golden thread running through both plan making and decision taking.

The link to this NPPF document on the Department of Communities and Local Government - DCLG - web page is as follows. The link also provides a covers the link to the Planning Practice Guidance

• The full Localism Act 2011 - This is the full act and is 481 pages, so be patient if downloading.