Neighbourhood Planning for Parishes
Join the Brecks Fen Edge and Rivers Landscape Partnership Scheme (BFER) for an introductory lunchtime webinar on neighbourhood planning. In this webinar, BFER project partners West Suffolk Council, and Suffolk Wildlife Trust, will share their knowledge and experience surrounding neighbourhood planning and biodiversity.
West Suffolk Council have been assisting parish councils in preparing neighbourhood plans, from first meeting with a neighbourhood plan group to the ‘making’ of neighbourhood plans and using them in determining planning applications.
During this webinar they will share advice based on their experience of the process including:
- The benefits of preparing a neighbourhood plan
- Key factors you may want to consider when drafting policies
- The basic conditions that neighbourhood plans are required to meet
- The examination and referendum process
- Making the neighbourhood plan
- Advice on monitoring and reviewing a neighbourhood plan after it is made.
Suffolk Wildlife Trust engage with Parish Councils and neighbourhood planning in several ways – undertaking biodiversity audits, offering management advice, and engaging with the planning and neighbourhood plan process. During this webinar, they will share advice on how Biodiversity Duty can be an opportunity not a burden for parish councils, including:
- Exploring ways biodiversity can be supported
- Biodiversity Net Gain
- Monitoring and surveying wildlife can be undertaken
This webinar has been developed in collaboration with the Suffolk Association of Local Councils.
Neighbourhood Planning for Parishes
Date: Tuesday 24th June
Time: 12pm – 1.30pm
Where: Online (This webinar will be delivered via MS Teams)
Registration required