In more detail
Local plans are spatial plans that add a more local policy layer to the overall guidance contained in a council's Local Development Plan. Before they are adopted by the council, they are consulted on. When they are adopted by the council, they become 'supplementary planning documents' (SPDs): part of the Local Development Framework.
Most local plans are prepared by the council. Neighbourhood plans do the same job as council-produced local plans (they add a local policy layer to the development framework), but they carry more policy weight because they have been produced through a community-led Neighbourhood Planning process set out in the Localism Act 2011. There are also local plans which have been made through community-led processes which are not those set out in the Localism Act. And there are rather more local plans which have been planner-led but which have involved the community significantly. Once adopted by the local council, all of these plans - regardless of how they were made - have policy status within the local planning framework.
Four Ways of Making a Local Plan
You can differentiate four approaches to making a local plan:
- Neighbourhood Planning as described in the Localism Act
- community-led planning not according to the process in the Act
- planner-led planning with significant community involvement
- planner-led planning with less community involvement.
Of the three processes highlighted in this toolkit in Birmingham, the plan in Balsall Heath and the one being made in the Jewellery Quarter are both Neighbourhood Plans. The process in Moseley, was a community-led plan which just pre-dated the Localism Act. Moseley's Plan was written by local people and led by Moseley Community Development Trust - which is a community body which more or less fits the description of a neighbourhood forum under the Localism Act. The plan was the city's first community-led SPD and was adopted by the council in 2014.
SPDs which are made by the council do not require a ballot- they are adopted by the council after a period of public consultation. If your local community can work with the council planners and elected councillors, you can produce a local SPD (which can be community-led or significantly community-influenced), quicker than you would normally be able to produce a Neighbourhood Plan.
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Supplementary Planning Documents make up part of the local development framework, regardless of whether they have been made by the community or by the local council. If you are able to work with your local council, you may be able to make a local plan which is led by the community or is significantly community-influenced in less time than it would take you to make a Neighbourhood Plan using the process set out in the Localism Act. |
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