Commentaries

A lot of comment has been generated about NP from different stakeholders. Here we point you to some of the best and  most pertinent of these.

 

Short commentaries from academics:

• Parker, G. (2015) ‘There goes the neighbourhood’ The Planner – Read on The Planner website
• Derounian, J. (2016) ‘The good the bad and the ugly of NP‘ The Planner.
• Salter. K. (2017) Neighbourhood plan examinations: why they need to be tough The Planner.
• Salter, K. (2017) Time for change? Modifying a neighbourhood plan RTPI Blogpost.
• Parker, G and Salter, K (2018) Neighbourhood Planning 2018: the year ahead (maybe?) UpFront e-bulletin, Jan/Feb 2018
• Salter, K and Parker, G (2018) Friend or foe? Understanding the stakeholders involved in neighbourhood planning. Upfront e-bulletin, March/April 2018

Briefings

• Neighbourhood Planning examinations
• Neighbourhood Planning amendments 
• Neighbourhood Planning User views – revisited (2017) http://www.reading.ac.uk/web/files/UoR-NPUR-Exec-Jan17.pdf

Other sources

Parker, G. and Wargent, M. (2017) ‘Participant Experience of Neighbourhood Planning in England’, Working Papers in Real Estate & Planning 01/17, University of Reading http://centaur.reading.ac.uk/70018/1/wp0117.pdf

Practitioners 

Many organisations involved in the delivery of Neighbourhood Planning produce frequent updates on policy and emerging practice. These include:

• DCLG notes on Neighbourhood Planning: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/notes-on-neighbourhood-planning
• Upfront – a bi-monthly email bulletin for those interested in neighbourhood planning: https://www.ourneighbourhoodplanning.org.uk/news/id/27 complemented by a bi-monthly video https://www.ourneighbourhoodplanning.org.uk/resources/videos
• Neighbourhood Planners.London: http://www.neighbourhoodplanners.london

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