Your Neighbourhood plan needs you!
This is your chance to help shape the future plans in your neighbourhood. If there is anything you are concerned about in your area or you would
like to make a comment regarding Neighbourhood Planning please contact your
local Neighbourhood Plan committee as soon as possible.
Click on a link below to go to the neighbourhood plan or parish council web page for that area:
Bersted Felpham Bognor (Town centre)
Aldwick Pagham |
Place Check
Place check is a simple way of getting communities to identify what they like and don’t like about where they live. You can do a place check!!
Download the documents below to find out more and to do your place check: 
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More about neighbourhood plans in the local area and how they work can be found on the Arun DIstrict Council website.
Can neighbourhood plans be used to block development rather than promote it?
No. Neighbourhood planning is about shaping the development of a local area in a positive (and we also think a sustainable) manner. It is not a tool to stop new development proposals from happening and should reflect local and national policies. Neighbourhood plans and orders should not promote less development than set out in the local plan or undermine its strategic policies.
Locality Guide to taking forward neighbourhood plans
Please follow this link below to read some very helpful guidance from "Locality":
Locality Guide
Locality Guide
Neighbourhood Planning and Community Land Trusts: something to consider...
There are 160 Community Land Trusts in England and Wales and these Trusts deliver everything from homes to meeting spaces, workspaces, shops, pubs, farms and gardens. Because a Community Land Trust holds these assets in trust for the benefit of the local community, the assets can be made permanently affordable, and provide a long-term income stream for the community.
Community Land Trusts add value by:
Community Land Trusts add value by:
- Being locally-controlled / democratically accountable
- Being flexible to meet local priorities
- Creating community support
- Providing locally affordable homes
- Delivering actions from community / neighbourhood plans
- Closer community & landowner involvement
- Generating re-investment for the community
- Enabling the long term stewardship of community assets
Princes Foundation Report to Bognor Town Council: Advice on taking forward a neighbourhood plan
This report and the community workshop it records follow a discussion between Bognor Regis Neighbourhood Plan Steering Group 1 and the Princes Foundation requesting assistance. The agreement for assistance stated the challenge for Bognor Regis is to balance future sustainable development with keeping and enhancing the town’s Victorian heritage and charm, and at the same time to identify specific site allocation opportunities to contribute to the town’s regeneration and identify what they may deliver.
This report offers advice to the Neighbourhood Plan Steering Group on how to take forward a neighbourhood plan, and captures ideas for planning policies and other actions the community representatives and stakeholders identified in the workshops held between 26 February and 1 March 2013. The ideas will need further consideration and consultation as part of the neighbourhood planning process. Comments welcomed.
This report offers advice to the Neighbourhood Plan Steering Group on how to take forward a neighbourhood plan, and captures ideas for planning policies and other actions the community representatives and stakeholders identified in the workshops held between 26 February and 1 March 2013. The ideas will need further consideration and consultation as part of the neighbourhood planning process. Comments welcomed.
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