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What Is A Neighbourhood Plan?

Neighbourhood Planning is a way for communities to take a proactive approach to deciding the future of the places where they live and work. Communities can use their Neighbourhood Plan to inform the development and use of land and to make other improvements to their neighbourhood, including the development of homes and infrastructure, environmental matters and health and well-being. The Neighbourhood Plan can: 

  • propose more development than the Local Plan
  • identify the most suitable sites for development
  • help to determine what type and design of development should take place

The Neighbourhood Plan cannot:

  • propose less growth than in the Local Plan
  • prevent any development from ever taking place in an area
  • be prepared without community input and support
  • be in conflict with local, national or EU policies

A Neighbourhood Plan helps set out a community’s vision for their area over ten, fifteen, twenty years. Unlike a Parish Plan, once agreed the Neighbourhood Plan has the same legal status as the Local Plan so, decisions on planning applications must take the Neighbourhood Plan into consideration. Communities can put in place planning policies that will help deliver that vision or grant planning permission for the development they want to see.

The Parish Council initiates the process and works with the community to develop their proposals. The consent of local people must be secured through a referendum before the Plan can be agreed and adopted by the local planning authority (Shropshire Council)

Condover Parish Neighbourhood Plan

At its meetings on 7th February and 7th March 2017, the Parish Council resolved to proceed with developing a Condover Parish Neighbourhood Plan. Work is in the very early stages and there are discussions to be held with Shropshire Council. Updates, progress reports and details of how to get involved will be regularly posted on these pages.

Shropshire Council has given notice that an application under Regulation 5 of the Neighbourhood Planning Regulations has been received from Condover Parish Council for Shropshire Council to designate the area comprising the civil parish of Condover as a “neighbourhood area” within the meaning of section 61 G of the 1990 Act (see explanatory note below).

A copy of the application made by Condover Parish Council, a map of the proposed area, and the application advert can be accessed through the links below. They can also be viewed at Shirehall, Abbey Foregate Shrewsbury during weekdays 8.30 am to 5pm and on parish noticeboards in Condover.

This consultation ends on 12th June 2017.

Following the Introduction of the Localism Act 2011, the purpose of designating a neighbourhood area is for a neighbourhood plan to then be prepared for that area. Condover Parish Council is in the earliest stages of considering a neighbourhood plan, and this application seeks now to formalise the process.

Dorrington Development Hub Preferred Sites

Under the emerging revised Shropshire Local Plan, Dorrington is the only Development Hub within the Parish. The minimum number of new homes required in Dorrington has been set by Shropshire Council at 69 new homes, in addition to those already in the planning process or approved but not yet built.

An independent assessment and evaluation was undertaken on behalf of the Parish Council of all the sites put forward for new housing in Dorrington.

As it is the development hub for the Parish, the Neighbourhood Plan must consider the needs of the whole Parish, not just Dorrington.

The Parish Council considered the site evaluations and selected three preferred sites for development, based on accessibility and suitability, and taking account of the overall ‘shape’ of the village.

The Parish Council held a consultation evening on 2nd December 2019 to display the preferred sites and explain why they had been selected.

People were able to make comments at the event. You may also make comments by contacting the Parish Clerk at Dorrington Village Hall, or by email: condoverpc@gmail.com

To see a map showing the preferred sites and to read details of each site, please click on the links below:

Housing Needs Assessment

Under the emerging revised Shropshire Local Plan, Dorrington is the only Development Hub within the Parish. The minimum number of new homes required in Dorrington has been set by Shropshire Council at 69 new homes, in addition to those already in the planning process or approved but not yet built.

The question for the Neighbourhood Plan is not so much how many new homes are required in Dorrington, but the type and size of these new homes.

As it is the development hub for the Parish, the Neighbourhood Plan must consider the needs of the whole Parish, not just Dorrington.

The Parish Council had an independent Housing Needs Assessment carried out. This looked at the current supply of housing in the Parish and at the existing and future housing needs, and from this put forward recommendations about the size and type of homes required.

You can read a summary of findings or the full Housing Needs Assessment report here:

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BACKGROUND PAPERS

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