Longhorsley Neighbourhood Plan

The Longhorsley Neighbourhood Plan (LNP) is going to be your plan for your parish.

It is a new type of plan prepared under the Localism Act where the local community is in ‘the driving seat’.

A Steering Group from the Parish Council is preparing the plan but an essential part of the process is that you, as members of the local community, continue to be fully engaged.

During 2014 and 2015 they asked for your views on what you thought were the main issues facing the area.

From your responses the Steering Group identified a number of key issues in the village and the parish that the neighbourhood plan will need to tackle together with a suggested vision and objectives for the plan.

These were communicated in the Moving Ahead consultation in July 2016.

The Steering Group have used what you have told them to create the main topics for planning policies to include in the LNP.

These form the basis of the Shaping Longhorsley consultation in February 2017.

The Steering Group have analysed all of the feedback from the Shaping Longhorsley consultation and put together a response to all of the points made.

These are presented on the February Feedback webpage.

The Pre-Submission Draft has been approved by the Parish Council and independent advisors.

We have produced a synopsis which can be viewed on the Pre-Submission Draft webpage.

The Neighbourhood Plan was submitted to NCC on November 29th 2017.

Their consultation ran from Friday 22 December 2017 until 4pm on Friday 16 February 2018.

You can see details on the Submission webpage.

The comments received during the NCC consultation were passed on to the independent examiner, appointed by NCC.

The examiner requested some modifications to the plan and these were made by NCC, with the agreement of Longhorsley Parish Council .

The examiner passed the plan and NCC arranged for a Referendum to be held in the parish on Thursday August 23rd.

There were 182 votes cast, a 24% turnout, and 90% were in favour of the plan.

More details on the Referendum webpage.

The Longhorsley Neighbourhood Plan was formally "made" at NCC's October 9th Cabinet meeting.

See the Decision Notice here.

Click on the images below to view the full Made version of the plan and/or the Longhorsley Policies Map (attachment)