Neighbourhood Planning
What is Neighbourhood Planning?
Neighbourhood Planning helps communities shape development in their area. It is optional and Communities can choose whether they want one or not.
What are Neighbourhood Plans?
Neighbourhood Plans allow communities to set their own priorities and draw up plans for the use and development of land in their area. They focus on issues such as:
- Where new housing will go and what it should look like.
- Where new businesses should go.
- Where new shops should go.
- Identify and protect important local green spaces.
Neighbourhood Plans must broadly match what is in the Council's Local Plan. This sets out our planning policies e.g. how many new homes are needed in Fareham and where they broadly should go.
Neighbourhood Planning in Fareham
Neighbourhood Plans are often prepared by Parish or Town Councils. In places like Fareham, where there are none a Neighbourhood Forum can be set up to produce the Plan. You can find out more information about the progress of Neighbourhood Plans in the Borough below:
- Neighbourhood Planning in Titchfield
- Neighbourhood Planning in Warsash
The acting chair of the Warsash Neighbourhood Forum requested to withdraw from the neighbourhood planning process on 20th October 2020 and is therefore no longer working towards the production of a Neighbourhood Plan. The request was noted at a meeting of the Council's Executive on the 17th May 2021, where the Council also agreed to withdraw the Warsash Neighbourhood Area. The minutes of the meeting and supporting reports can be viewed here. The formal Withdrawal Statement was published by the Council and is available to view here
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How could a Neighbourhood Plan affect your community?
You have stronger influence over how land is used and developed in your area.
You have more responsibility for planning what your area will look like in the future.
It is not about saying no to development.
It can't influence non-planning issues such as traffic management or street cleaning.
Other Neighbourhood Planning Tools
Neighbourhood Development Orders will grant planning permission for a particular type of development e.g. shop in a particular area, without the need to submit a planning application.
Neighbourhood Development Orders can be produced at the same time as the Neighbourhood Development Plan for the area or separately.
Find out more
You can find out more about what's involved in preparing a Plan by reading our How to make a Neighbourhood Plan webpage.
If you have any questions about Neighbourhood Planning please contact our Planning Strategy and Regeneration Team on 01329 824409 or email planningpolicy@fareham.gov.uk