{"id":6,"date":"2024-02-05T16:43:46","date_gmt":"2024-02-05T16:43:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.chilterns.org.uk\/neighbourhoodplanning\/?page_id=6"},"modified":"2024-07-02T14:03:49","modified_gmt":"2024-07-02T13:03:49","slug":"neighbourhood-planning","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.chilterns.org.uk\/neighbourhoodplanning\/","title":{"rendered":"Neighbourhood Planning"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: left;\">Welcome to the Chilterns National Landscape\u2019s Toolkit for Neighbourhood Planning<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Neighbourhood Planning gives communities power to develop a shared vision for their neighbourhood and shape the development and growth of their local area.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Our Neighbourhood Planning Toolkit helps communities to take action to conserve and enhance their local area within the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chilterns.org.uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chilterns National Landscape<\/a> through the Neighbourhood Planning process. It explains the special qualities of the Chilterns and why it is important to protect, conserve and enhance them.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This Toolkit aims to direct you to resources that explain the processes involved in Neighbourhood Planning. It will help you to decide if a Neighbourhood Plan is suitable for you, what topics should be included, and how the content should relate to the Chilterns National Landscape.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Browse our topics below to find out more about how you can help protect the special landscape, culture, biodiversity and tranquillity of the Chilterns through your local community.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Welcome to the Chilterns National Landscape\u2019s Toolkit for Neighbourhood Planning.\u00a0 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12:36:10","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.chilterns.org.uk\/neighbourhoodplanning\/?post_type=signposts&#038;p=116","menu_order":0,"post_type":"signposts","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}},{"signposts_item":false}],"layouts_block":[{"acf_fc_layout":"image_and_text_box_block","image_and_text_box_block_background_color":"#257226","image_and_text_box_block_image_position":"left","image_and_text_box_block_image":false,"image_and_text_box_block_title":"","image_and_text_box_block_copy":"<p><em>Our Chilterns Neighbourhood Planning Toolkit was created as part of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chilterns.org.uk\/chalkcherrieschairs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chalk, Cherries and Chairs Landscape Partnership Scheme<\/a>, made possible with funding from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heritagefund.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">National Lottery Heritage Fund<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Published by the <a 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An area is designated as an National Landscape if it meets criteria that relate to 'natural beauty' - a term enshrined in the 1949 National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act. Although seemingly obvious, legislation makes it clear that natural beauty is not just the <em>look<\/em> of the landscape, but also includes the landform and geology, the plants and animals, the landscape features, and the rich history of human settlement over the centuries. This set of <strong>\u2018special qualities\u2019<\/strong> includes things like the natural or man-made landscape, relative wildness, distinctive geology or habitats, and cultural heritage. They give a landscape its distinctive character, identity, and sense of place.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The\u202fChilterns National Landscape was designated in 1965 and extended in 1990 in recognition of its fine landscapes and unique features. It covers more than 883 km<sup>2<\/sup>(324 square miles) of countryside stretching across Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire and Oxfordshire. It is a living, working landscape, which has been shaped by people for centuries. It is home and workplace for more than 80,000 people and around 1.6\u202fmillion people live within 8 km of it. It is highly valued by both its communities and those who use it for peaceful relaxation and recreation. Today, it provides a cherished landscape, biological diversity (biodiversity) and many vernacular (local) buildings.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\r\n \t<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Find out more about the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chilterns.org.uk\/our-landscape\/about-the-chilterns-national-landscape\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Chilterns National Landscape designation and natural beauty<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<section id=\"section-copy-text-3\" class=\"block_long_text block-copy-text padding-bottom-remove\">\r\n<div class=\"container-txt-sm\">\r\n<h3 style=\"text-align: left;\">So what makes the Chilterns special?<\/h3>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The Chilterns is an\u00a0iconic chalk landscape giving rise to a rich and varied ecology, including internationally important chalk streams and beechwoods, and a distinctive cultural heritage, encompassing settlements, designed parklands and archaeological assets. The Chilterns' special qualities include:<\/p>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"b_l_t__txt no-bottom-padding\">\r\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\r\n \t<li>A <strong>rich natural tapestry<\/strong> of ancient hedgerows, trees, orchards and parkland weaving across farmland.<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Unspoilt countryside with relative <strong>tranquillity and dark skies<\/strong> on the doorstep of 10 million people.<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Nationally important concentrations of<strong> species-rich chalk grassland<\/strong>, home to scarce and threatened species, such as Chiltern gentian and glow-worm.<\/li>\r\n \t<li><strong>One of the most wooded landscapes in England<\/strong>, including the Chilterns beech wood Special Area of Conservation (SAC).<\/li>\r\n \t<li><strong>Nine precious chalk streams<\/strong>, home to some of the UK\u2019s most endangered species, such as otter, water vole and brown trout.<\/li>\r\n \t<li>A <strong>diverse archaeological landscape<\/strong>, with ancient parishes, medieval field patterns, Iron Age hillforts, and remnants of woodland heritage, such as sawpits.<\/li>\r\n \t<li>More than <strong>2,000 ha of common land<\/strong>, heaths and greens, rich in wildlife and cultural heritage.<\/li>\r\n \t<li>A <strong>network of 2,000 km of rights of way<\/strong>, including two national trails and numerous ancient routeways.<\/li>\r\n \t<li>A <strong>rich industrial heritage<\/strong> of woodworking, quarrying, brick making and food production.<\/li>\r\n \t<li><strong>Distinctive buildings<\/strong> made from local materials, attractive villages, notable stately homes and monuments, and medieval churches.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Discover the special qualities of the Chilterns and how they can be protected and enhanced within the Neighbourhood Planning process by following the links below.<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/section>","post_title":"Chilterns Special Qualities","post_excerpt":"The Chilterns is a globally rare landscape type - a dramatic chalk escarpment, interwoven with intimate valleys, rolling fields and sleepy villages","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"chilterns-special-qualities","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-03-17 14:32:30","post_modified_gmt":"2025-03-17 14:32:30","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.chilterns.org.uk\/neighbourhoodplanning\/?page_id=305","menu_order":4,"post_type":"page","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},"page_links_cta":""},{"page_links_colour":"#1c4220","page_links_link":{"ID":245,"post_author":"9","post_date":"2024-03-18 13:44:29","post_date_gmt":"2024-03-18 13:44:29","post_content":"<h2 style=\"text-align: left;\">A Neighbourhood Plan is a community-led planning framework that guides the future development, regeneration and conservation of an area<\/h2>\r\n<p class=\"Default\" style=\"text-align: left;\">Neighbourhood Plans were introduced in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/localism-act-2011-overview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Localism Act 2011<\/a> (subsequently amended) to allow local communities the power to help guide future development within their parishes, town councils or defined neighbourhood areas.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The following statement from <a href=\"https:\/\/locality.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Locality's<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/neighbourhoodplanning.org\/toolkits-and-guidance\/create-neighbourhood-plan-step-by-step-roadmap-guide\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Neighbourhood Plans Roadmap Guide<\/em> (2012)<\/a> explains what Neighbourhood Plans aim to do (see also <a href=\"https:\/\/neighbourhoodplanning.org\/toolkits-and-guidance\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Toolkits and Guidance<\/a> on their <a href=\"https:\/\/neighbourhoodplanning.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Neighbourhood Planning website<\/a>):<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u2018<em>A Neighbourhood Plan is a community-led planning framework for guiding the future development, regeneration and\/or conservation of an area. It may contain a vision, aims, planning policies, proposals for improving the area or providing new facilities, or allocation of key sites for specific kinds of development. It may deal with a wide range of social, economic, and environmental issues (such as housing, employment, heritage and transport) or it may focus on one or two issues only. These may be issues that are relevant to the whole neighbourhood or just to part of the neighbourhood.\u2019\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Chilterns National Landscape supports communities who want to make a difference in the area in which they live and work. Neighbourhood Plans are one of the tools with which communities can influence local planning, so we have created this toolkit to guide people through the process. Neighbourhood Plans are produced by individual communities, often through the Parish Council or a specifically set up forum. 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