NEIGHBOURHOOD PLANS

A neighbourhood plan is the best way of influencing planning decisions in your community.

Collective Community Planning based in Norfolk is at the forefront of providing expert advice and working closely with town and parish councils who are developing neighbourhood plans or undergoing reviews of their adopted neighbourhood plans.

Collective Community Planning consultants have guided over 40 neighbourhood plan groups across the East of England and further afield.

Neighbourhood Planning Services

Collective Community Planning in Norfolk can provide bespoke advice, develop supporting documents and write policy depending on your needs:

Advice from the outset
Assistance with grant funding applications
Developing the evidence base
Consultation support such as developing posters and surveys
Produce green corridors, local green space and views assessments
Plan and policy writing
Produce maps
Produce Consultation Statements and Statement of Basic Conditions Documents
Support Town/Parish Councils with questions from Independent Examiners
Provide independent health checks and review existing neighbourhood plans

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Funding

All groups undertaking a neighbourhood plan can apply for grant funding from Locality:

All groups can apply for a basic grant of £10,000
An additional £8,000 is available if you meet certain criteria
Take a look at the Locality website
We can assist you with a grant application

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We have received some great feedback on the neighbourhood plans we have written, as well as their supporting documents, from parish and town councils we have worked alongside, statutory stakeholders, and Independent Examiners in their final reports.

“I find Oulton Neighbourhood Plan in Norfolk to be well-researched, well-evidenced and clearly presented. It is of exceptionally high quality, a model for neighbourhood planning"

Christopher Lockhart-Mummery KC (Independent Examiner)

Plans We Have Supported

Burnham Market
West Norfolk

This plan focuses on achieving a better balance between residents and visitors and ensuring development respects the current character of the village. It includes policies on Principle Residency/ Furnished Holiday Lets, replacement dwellings and design. It passed a successful referendum in September 2023.

Ringstead
West Norfolk

Ringstead is a small village within West Norfolk. The plans vision is based on a desire to achieve organic growth that will be sustainable and protect Ringstead’s special characteristics. It includes a range of policies to protect the natural and historic environment as well as support local needs. The plan allocated a small site of up to 6 dwellings for affordable housing. It passed a successful referendum in February 2025.

Upwell
West Norfolk

The Upwell plan has a strong focus on delivering housing to meet local need. It allocates 5 sites for housing development, for approximately 47 homes. One of the allocated sites is owned by the Parish Council and another will help deliver much needed parking for the village hall. It passed a successful referendum in July 2021.

Filby
Great Yarmouth

Filby is small community on the Broads, their Neighbourhood Plan has a strong emphasis on promoted greener developments, it introduces wildlife corridors, requirements in relation to biodiversity improvements and Local Green Spaces. It passed a successful referendum in February 2022. CCP are now helping the parish council undergo a review of the existing plan.

Oulton
East Suffolk and Broads Authority

This plan focuses on influencing significant growth in the parish as part of the Lowestoft extension and enhancing the environment through the identification of green corridors and Local Green Spaces. It passed a successful referendum in February 2023.

Diss and District
South Norfolk and Mid Suffolk

This is a complex seven-parish plan in South Norfolk and Mid-Suffolk that’s allocating for 500 new homes and employment sites. It passed a successful referendum in September 2023.

Chet

South Norfolk and Broads Authority

This is a multi-parish plan covering Loddon and Chedgrave with a key focus on promoting a shift to zero carbon development, including some innovative policies in this area. It passed a successful referendum in November 2024.

Lingwood & Burlingham

Broadland

Lingwood and Burlingham is a rural parish based in Broadland. The plan focused on preserving the environment whilst ensuring that development in the future helps sustain and build the local community and economy. The plan includes policies focusing on social, economic and environmental needs such as housing mix, affordable housing, design, community facilities, green spaces, biodiversity and green corridors and economic development. It passed a successful referendum in May 2024.

Reedham

Broadland and Broads Authority

Reedham is an East Norfolk village situated on the north bank of the River Yare. The plans vision is to keep Reedham a vibrant community that retains its rural identity cherished by local people and tourists. The plan protects a number of community facilities, locally important views, green spaces and has provisions in place to meet local housing need, manage flood and surface water, light pollution, support new facilities and more. It passed a successful referendum in September 2024.

NEIGHBOURHOOD PLANS

Neighbourhood Planning Services

Collective Community Planning in Norfolk can provide bespoke advice, develop supporting documents and write policy depending on your needs:​

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Funding

All groups undertaking a neighbourhood plan can apply for grant funding from Locality: ​

All groups can apply for a basic grant of £10,000

An additional £8,000 is available if you meet certain criteria

Take a look at the Locality website

We can assist you with a grant application