New Neighbourhood Planning Support for Communities

This month, the popular My Community and Neighbourhood Planning programmes will both be going through some important changes. 
Over the last four years, Locality has supported over 2,300 local groups to develop a neighbourhood plan or Neighbourhood Development Order.
Locality will be extending its support for local groups to develop neighbourhood plans and neighbourhood development orders for another four years.
The new £23m programme will be different, with changes to grant and support eligibility criteria. The changes will also mean that neighbourhood planning will get a new and enhanced website, neighbourhoodplanning.org, independent of the My Community programme.
While the funding for My Community from the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (formerly the DCLG) is coming to an end in March, we are excited to announce that My Community is carrying on, with some changes. MyCommunity.org.uk will become a one-stop-shop for inspiration, information, advice and peer support for anyone wanting to take action to support their local community and change where they live for the better.