The Planning Portal is the Government’s online planning and building regulations resource for England and Wales. it includes lots of information on the background to Neighbourhood Plans. You can find it here.
Neighbourhood Plans Roadmap Guide
Keep it simple, say Locality
You can find the Keeping it Simple guide here
The Power of Neighbourhood Planning
Locality has issued a new document explaining how Neighbourhood planning is ‘designed to provide a powerful set of tools to ensure you get the right types of development in the right place for your community’.
It says that local residents and businesses are now in a position to make planning policies that reflect their priorities, deliver tangible local benefits and have real weight in the planning system. Hear Hear!
A copy is available here
National Planning Practice Guidance
As well as the NPPF the Government has also published the National Planning Practice Guidance portal which provides guidance to Planners, Councillors, planning applicants, developers, and the public as to how the National Planning Policy Framework is to be used. The portal can be found here.
The NPPG includes a section specifically about neighbourhood planning. This provides advice on the neighbourhood planning system introduced by the Localism Act including key stages and decisions (e.g. deciding neighbourhood areas, the legal tests for neighbourhood plans, and the process of independent examination and referendum).