Friday, 14 September 2012

Neighbourhood plans

I occasionally plog on (that's where you plod and blog) about neighbourhood plans. Parish plans with slightly more significance. They talk of little else in  Marston.

They have now have a bit of a boost with more government money available to devise and draft them - they can cost several thousand pounds so cash-strapped town and parish councils might be wary. Following on from the last post from the Rural Services network visit
neighbourhood plan funding
to find out more.


CBC published its new Local Development Framework allocating new housing  sites through the area. Significantly 1,700 houses (I believe) are set aside for allocation by T and P councils through their neighbourhood plans. That means if you don't have one and you don't allocate any, someone else might decide what you are getting. Cynics will say that will happen any way.

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