About neighbourhood planning

Extra resources

The council highly recommend looking at the central government's advice on neighbourhood planning, 'Locality's Roadmap Guide', and the Leicestershire County Council Neighbourhood Planning website:

• National Planning Practice Guidance: Neighbourhood Planning  (GOV.UK)
• Locality's 'How to create a Neighbourhood Plan: Your step-by-step roadmap guide' (neighbourhoodplanning.org)
• Leicestershire County Council - Leicestershire Communities, Neighbourhood Planning  (leicestershirecommunities.org.uk)

Guidance documents

The guidance documents below have been written by the HBBC Planning Policy Team to assist neighbourhood planning groups and Parish Councils with certain technical elements, or certain phases, of the neighbourhood plan process.

• Neighbourhood planning flowchart
• A guide to locality's technical support packages
• Area Designation (Regulations 5 to 7)
• Pre-Submission (Regulation 14)
• Submission (Regulation 15)
• Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA)

If groups have any further questions, please feel free to contact us using the contact form at the bottom of this page.

Last updated: 05/03/2025, 15:30