Welcome to Neighbourhood Planning Support, where you’ll find everything you need to know about how to develop a neighbourhood plan or neighbourhood development order and what support is available to you.

Important notices for Neighbourhood Planners

Application deadline for grants for this financial year (2021/2022)

Applications for grant for the 2021-2022 financial year can be submitted until 5pm on 31st January 2022. This means the last date for completing an Expression of Interest form for a grant application is 5pm on 30th January (you will still need to complete your application form by 5pm on the 31st January). Expenditure through a grant must be completed on or before 31st March 2022.

Applications for technical support will be considered on a rolling basis and are not affected by these timeframes.

As noted below, as soon as we know more information about funding in April, we will update the website.

Support post March 2022

The current four year Neighbourhood Planning Support Programme run by Locality on behalf of DLUHC commenced in April 2018, and runs until the end of March 2022.

DLUHC are in the final stages of the Spending Review 2021 process which will allocate funds to all programmes across Government, beyond March 2022.  As part of this process the DLUHC Neighbourhood Planning Team have been exploring the allocation of further funds for neighbourhood planning. As soon as possible but within the confines of this bigger process, the DLUHC  NP Team hope to be able to provide us with more certainty as to whether they are able to extend the neighbourhood planning support along current lines (an extension from April 2022 for at least a year). As soon as we have further news on the continuity of funding, we will let you know.

All updates will be posted here, so please monitor this website for further updates.  We have no further information at this time and therefore we request that you do not get in touch with specific enquiries on this matter, as we will not be able to provide you with any further detail.

You can also subscribe to our quarterly newsletter for updates in due course (you can subscribe at the bottom of this page).

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