Housing Minister, Alok Sharma, has announced £22.8 million of funding, which will be around £5.5 million per year until 2022, to provide communities with specialist support to help develop a Neighbourhood Plan.
Neighbourhood Plans are intended to give local communities a real say in the development of their area including where homes, shops, green spaces and offices should be built and how they should look.
Following the Housing White Paper, a further raft of measures to improve neighbourhood planning will be implemented later this year, as the Neighbourhood Planning Act comes into effect. This includes new rules to speed up and strengthen the neighbourhood planning process by simplifying how plans can be revised as local circumstances change.