What Is a Neighbourhood Plan
Community groups can set up neighbourhood planning forums to write their own policies for an area, which are used with the Local Plan to decide planning applications.
There’s good information on the BCC website about local neighbourhood planning https://www.bristol.gov.uk/planning-and-building-regulations/neighbourhood-planning
https://www.bristol.gov.uk/planning-and-building-regulations/supplementary-planning-documents
Bristol has a volunteer Umbrella group to help neighbourhoods with planning http://www.bristolnpn.net/home/guidance-for-the-community/
The process for making an approved plan is outlined here https://www.bristol.gov.uk/planning-and-building-regulations/make-a-neighbourhood-planning-application
the Neighbourhood Planning Network (NPN) gives good guidance http://www.bristolnpn.net/news-and-reference/how-to-do-your-own-plans/
and here are some existing plans in the Bristol area
https://www.bristol.gov.uk/planning-and-building-regulations/neighbourhood-planning-lawrence-weston
Why does Brislington want/need one
A neighbourhood plan helps shape the planning process and can significantly alter the impact and form of future development if implemented well
Currently council wards receive 15% CIL funding raised in the area but this is shared across a local area consisting in our case of 5 Wards so the money isn’t guaranteed to come back to Brislington
With a Neighbourhood plan in place we would receive 25% of this funding and it would be ring fenced to spend inside Brislington , in real terms that means instead of receiving £30,000 last Year we would have received £50,000 with a plan in place
with the likely Future Developments in Brislington the potential increase could be measured in hundreds of thousands of pounds
What are we doing
Our aim is to create a Neighbourhood plan for Brislington
this page explains the process we aim to follow in setting up our plan
http://www.bristolnpn.net/home/guidance-for-the-community/working-with-the-network/form-a-group/
Our plan will need to meet BCC’s requirements for a planning area
we can get help support and funding with this process from BCC and other sources https://mycommunity.org.uk/2018/03/15/new-neighbourhood-planning-programme-changes-to-my-community-everything-you-need-to-know/
we need to form a group of committed individuals from across the community to develop our plan
how do I get involved
We are looking for Volunteers to form a Planning group, if you are interested in getting involved please fill out our Neighbourhood Plan interest form
we will then contact you to arrange an initial meeting to form a planning group
If you want to know more about GBT and how our plan develops please join our mailing list https://greaterbrislington.org/get-involved/subscribe/
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