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Overview
What is it?
A Neighbourhood Plan is a document that works to deliver the scale and type of development that local people wish to see in their area.
Once adopted, it sits alongside the Local Authority’s Local Plan and will be used to help determine planning applications that are submitted for the area covered by the Neighbourhood Plan.
A Quick Guide to Neighbourhood Plans is available here (PDF)
Who does it?
A Steering Group made up of local residents who oversee and lead the production of the Plan.
A Steering Group is open to all members of the local community and consists of a mix of Parish Councillors and local residents.
What can it do?
A Neighbourhood Plan can be used to deliver development that the local community wish to see. It can allocate sites or list criteria that all new developments must meet, such as the design, location and type of development.
A Neighbourhood Plan can also allocate sites as protected green space and be used to protect important community facilities and environmental assets.
Neighbourhood Plan Now Under Review
The Sutton cum Lound Neighbourhood Plan has been reviewed by the Steering Group after several meetings, consultation events with the community and discussions with local stakeholders.
The latest version can be viewed here. You are encouraged to read it here:
- Sutton cum Lounds NHP Consultation Statement
- Sutton cum Lound NHP Basic Conditions Statement
- Sutton cum Lound Neighbourhood Plan – Full Review
The Survey can be taken at www.suttoncumlound.neighbourhoodplan.uk, or hard copies will be available at the review events.
Please email any comments/questions to sclneighbourhoodplan@gmail.com.
Design Guidance and Codes (December 2024)
Through the Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) Neighbourhood Planning Programme led by Locality, AECOM has been appointed to provide design support to the Sutton cum Lound Neighbourhood Plan Steering Group (NPSG) by preparing this Design Guidance and Codes document.
The NPSG seek to establish design guidance and codes to influence the character and design of future development across the Sutton cum Lound Neighbourhood Area (NA), an area equivalent to the parish. This includes both Sutton cum Lound village and the surrounding countryside.
Neighbourhood Plan Design Guidance and Codes (2024) (PDF)
Housing Needs Assessment (April 2025)
Sutton cum Lound Neighbourhood Plan Housing Needs Assessment (HNA) (PDF)
Neighbourhood Plan (2018)
See the existing Neighbourhood Plan here
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