Birmingham City Council’s Neighbourhood Planning Toolkit. Funded through the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities’ Neighbourhood Planning Pilots Programme.

Co-produced by Birmingham Community Matters, Locality, with the Neighbourhood Development and Support Unit and the Planning team at Birmingham City Council. Learn more about our Local Visions partnership.

With thanks to the city’s Neighbourhood Planning groups.

External Neighbourhood Planning Toolkit (Local Visions)
website project team

Birmingham Community Matters (BCM)
Kerry Leslie (Project Manager), Marie Kreft (Writer) and Jo Burrill (CEO)

Locality
Francis Shaw (Programme Manager) and Meena Bharadwa (Development Manager)

Neighbourhood Development and Support Unit
Claire Hardwick (Community Support and Development Officer) and Karen Cheney (Head of Service)

Birmingham City Council Planning team including Noreen Akhtar and Alice Jones

With thanks to Birmingham’s Neighbourhood Planning groups and their lead representatives

Website - Kerry Leslie
Words - Marie Kreft
Technical writing - Francis Shaw
Visual identity - Kat Tromans
Animation - Rachael Redfern
Illustrations - Sharonjit Kaur Sutton
Video production - Blue Monday
Video editing (zoom voxpops) Nicole Eveleigh
Photography - out on location: Blue Monday
Photography - workshops: Nikki Cooper