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Neighbourhood planning in England ten years after the Localism Act: Housing Delivery Test, permitted development and design codes—constraints and the continuing case for neighbourhood development plans

Published on: 19 November 2021

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For many, the hallmark of the Localism Act 2011 was its far-reaching neighbourhood planning regime, which for the first time shifted statutory plan-making powers to parish councils and, in areas without parishes, to a new statutory body, the neighbourhood forum. The Neighbourhood Development Plan (NDP) emerged and took its place within the planning system.

The political rationale appeared twofold: to spread responsibility, and some of the financial burdens of plan-making, down to lower tiers of government and, alongside that, to involve local people directly in preparing plans. In this spirit of empowerment, neighbourhood planning was intended to be simple to navigate and unencumbered by undue regulation.

The ministerial foreword to the original National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF), issued six months later in March 2012, observed that planning had tended to exclude rather than include people and communities; it suggested neighbourhood planning answered this by replacing over 1,000 pages of national policy with about 50, written plainly and clearly, thereby bringing people and communities back into planning.

The recently updated 2021 NPPF now extends to 75 pages and contains no foreword, but were it to have one, it seems unlikely it would emphasise this in the same inclusive, deregulatory terms today...

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