Collective Community Planning based in Norfolk is at the forefront of providing expert advice and working closely with town and parish councils who are developing neighbourhood plans or undergoing reviews of their adopted neighbourhood plans.
Collective Community Planning consultants have guided over 40 neighbourhood plan groups across the East of England and further afield.
Neighbourhood Planning Services
Collective Community Planning in Norfolk can provide bespoke advice, develop supporting documents and write policy depending on your needs:
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Advice from the outset
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Assistance with grant funding applications
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Developing the evidence base
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Consultation support such as developing posters and surveys
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Produce green corridors, local green space and views assessments
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Plan and policy writing
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Produce maps
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Produce Consultation Statements and Statement of Basic Conditions Documents
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Support Town/Parish Councils with questions from Independent Examiners
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Provide independent health checks and review existing neighbourhood plans
Funding
All groups undertaking a neighbourhood plan can apply for grant funding from Locality:
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All groups can apply for a basic grant of £10,000
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An additional £8,000 is available if you meet certain criteria
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Take a look at the Locality website
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We can assist you with a grant application
We have received some great feedback on the neighbourhood plans we have written, as well as their supporting documents, from parish and town councils we have worked alongside, statutory stakeholders, and Independent Examiners in their final reports.
Plans We Have Supported
Burnham Market
West Norfolk
This plan focuses on achieving a better balance between residents and visitors and ensuring development respects the current character of the village. It includes policies on Principle Residency/ Furnished Holiday Lets, replacement dwellings and design. It passed a successful referendum in September 2023.
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Ringstead
West Norfolk
Ringstead is a small village within West Norfolk. The plans vision is based on a desire to achieve organic growth that will be sustainable and protect Ringstead’s special characteristics. It includes a range of policies to protect the natural and historic environment as well as support local needs. The plan allocated a small site of up to 6 dwellings for affordable housing. It passed a successful referendum in February 2025.
Upwell
West Norfolk
The Upwell plan has a strong focus on delivering housing to meet local need. It allocates 5 sites for housing development, for approximately 47 homes. One of the allocated sites is owned by the Parish Council and another will help deliver much needed parking for the village hall. It passed a successful referendum in July 2021.
Filby
Great Yarmouth
Filby is small community on the Broads, their Neighbourhood Plan has a strong emphasis on promoted greener developments, it introduces wildlife corridors, requirements in relation to biodiversity improvements and Local Green Spaces. It passed a successful referendum in February 2022. CCP are now helping the parish council undergo a review of the existing plan.
Oulton
East Suffolk and Broads Authority
This plan focuses on influencing significant growth in the parish as part of the Lowestoft extension and enhancing the environment through the identification of green corridors and Local Green Spaces. It passed a successful referendum in February 2023.
Diss and District
South Norfolk and Mid Suffolk
This is a complex seven-parish plan in South Norfolk and Mid-Suffolk that’s allocating for 500 new homes and employment sites. It passed a successful referendum in September 2023.
Chet
South Norfolk and Broads Authority
This is a multi-parish plan covering Loddon and Chedgrave with a key focus on promoting a shift to zero carbon development, including some innovative policies in this area. It passed a successful referendum in November 2024.
Lingwood & Burlingham
Broadland
Lingwood and Burlingham is a rural parish based in Broadland. The plan focused on preserving the environment whilst ensuring that development in the future helps sustain and build the local community and economy. The plan includes policies focusing on social, economic and environmental needs such as housing mix, affordable housing, design, community facilities, green spaces, biodiversity and green corridors and economic development. It passed a successful referendum in May 2024.
Reedham
Broadland and Broads Authority
Reedham is an East Norfolk village situated on the north bank of the River Yare. The plans vision is to keep Reedham a vibrant community that retains its rural identity cherished by local people and tourists. The plan protects a number of community facilities, locally important views, green spaces and has provisions in place to meet local housing need, manage flood and surface water, light pollution, support new facilities and more. It passed a successful referendum in September 2024.
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