Tuesday, 6 January 2015

Planning Reforms Put Power Back In the Hands of Local Residents

The New Year has brought new powers to make it quicker and easier for communities to create their own neighbourhood plan, says Housing Minister Brandon Lewis. More than 5.2 million people live in one of the 1,274 areas across England where the community is working together to create a neighbourhood plan. But agreeing an area for a neighbourhood plan to cover takes an average of 19 weeks. The measures will cut weeks off this process – encouraging even more communities to have a greater say over the future development of their area. Read more on the CLG website.

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