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 – Technical Support and Grant applications are now CLOSED for this financial year (2023/2024)

The continuing high demand for neighbourhood planning support means that we will have fully allocated support funding before the end of the financial year.

Accordingly, applications for grant and Technical Support for the 2023/2024 financial year have now closed. Any applications received after 5pm on 26 January will not be considered and we cannot process incomplete applications made before this deadline.

Due to the high volume of applications for grant and Technical Support, it is necessary to prioritise applications:

• For grant this means considering applications on a first come first served basis. If your grant application is incomplete, or does not meet the eligibility requirements, it will not be considered. Please note, expenditure met through a grant must be completed on or before 31^st March 2024.
• For Technical Support applications, the process for prioritising will be determined by the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC), but this will involve an assessment of the most time critical needs for individual packages of support in progressing neighbourhood plans. Please bear in mind that, unlike grant, Technical Support packages approved by DLUHC under the 2023/2024 programme do not have to be completed by end of March and delivery will continue into 2024.

Financial Year 2024/2025.

We are aware many people may have questions regarding future support for neighbourhood planning after the end of this financial year. DLUHC has confirmed the continued importance which the Government attaches to supporting neighbourhood planning and that the Government intends that support will continue beyond this financial year. We understand that options for the continuation of support provision remain under consideration. We will update the website as soon as we have further advice on this from DLUHC. At this time, however, our Advice Service will not have any additional information, so please bear with us and do not contact us on this matter as we will not be able to add anything to this notice.

Celebrating 10 years of Neighbourhood Planning

Throughout this month and beyond, we’re celebrating 10 years since the first neighbourhood plans were made.

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