A consultation has launched today on the Pre-submission Draft Neighbourhood Plan for Findern Parish (2024-2039), Residents are invited to study and offer comments on this draft Plan.
The Parish Council is consulting across the Parish to ensure that the final Neighbourhood Plan for Findern Parish (2024-2039) reflects the views of the community. The Neighbourhood Plan has been produced based on the initial consultation in 2024, when members of the community were asked to consider the local issues and concerns that affect them, their families, and their neighbours; and to identify what it is about their neighbourhood that they value and want to protect. We now need to know that the community agree, or otherwise, with the emerging Plan and consider any changes that need to be made.
By making a full response to the qualifying body, Findern Parish Council, you will be helping us to complete the Consultation Process and move forward with the development of the Neighbourhood Plan for Findern Parish (2024-2039), which we hope will be of benefit to the Parish in future years. The Plan is a draft until it is agreed by South Derbyshire District Council and by referendum of the residents of Findern Parish.
The public consultation will take place between the 10 March 2025 and 25 April 2025.
The link to the on-line survey is here.
Word and pdf. versions of the form are available to download here.
Before commencing the survey, the main document that we advise everyone to read is the full Pre-submission draft Neighbourhood Plan for Findern Parish 2024-2039, which has all the key information from all of the research documents. Alongside this, please read the Neighbourhood Plan for Findern Parish Appendices document, which offers more detail on some of the areas within the draft Plan.
The other documents are the research that was conducted to build this plan: –
- The Housing Needs Assessment looks at the demographics of Findern Parish, now, and the future growth over the next 15 years. It analyses the population and the type of houses that we currently have compared to the type we will require in the next 15 years; it also provides an analysis and understanding of the role of the Parish within the wider housing market area.
- The Findern Design Guidance and Codes 2024 analysis shows what makes Findern Parish special and its unique characteristics. The report details the design code that any future development needs to adhere to.
All supporting documents and more background information is available on the Neighbourhood Plan page of the Council’s website Pre-Submission Consultation March 2025 – Findern Parish Council
A Neighbourhood Plan gives communities the opportunity to take a pro-active role in developing a shared vision for their neighbourhood and to shape the development and growth of their local area; therefore, we hope that you will take some time to study the draft Neighbourhood Plan and the supporting documents and respond via the survey to give us your views.
The link to the on-line survey is here.
Word and pdf. versions of the form are available to download here.
The consultation will close on 25 April 2025.