We have created this Neighbourhood Planning Toolkit website with Birmingham’s Neighbourhood Planning groups in mind.

Throughout the website, we have shared links to relevant further reading where we feel it will add further context.

Remember: You don’t need to know everything there is to know about Neighbourhood Plans. Lots of help is available.

For further inspiration you might like to take a look at:

Produced by myCommunity in 2015, this video is still relevant today.
Find out more at mycommunity.org.uk

Links

• Locality’s Neighbourhood Planning Roadmap - with relevant and up-to-date news about funding and support on neighbourhoodplanning.org

• A plain English guide to the Localism Act - from UK government

• Birmingham City Council’s webpage about Neighbourhood Planning

  
  See our selected list of practical links here
  

Books

• Neighbourhood Planning in Practice
  Gavin Parker, Kat Salter, Matthew Wargent - Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd (2019)

• Localism and Neighbourhood Planning: Power to the People?
  Sue Brownill and Quintin Bradley - Policy Press, Bristol University (2017)

• Neighbourhood Planning: Communities, Networks and Governance By Nick Gallent and Steve Robinson, Policy Press, Bristol University (2013)

Podcasts

• Borehamwood Tales, podcasts relating to the town of Borehamwood in Hertfordshire. Hosted by Clive Glover.
  Episodes:

  • Introduction to the Borehamwood & Elstree Neighbourhood Plan

  • Neighbourhood Plan - Infrastructure (2023)

• Celebrate Melksham, podcasts relating to the town and its surrounding area in Wiltshire. Episodes:

  • Melksham Neighbourhood Plan Part 1

  • Melksham Neighbourhood Plan Part 2 (2023)

• Streets Ahead - news and views in the fast-paced world of active travel, cycling, walking and urban planning in a jargon-free safe space. Co-hosted by Adam Tranter, Laura Laker and Ned Boulting.

• Open City and Talking Landscape, dedicated to making the urban landscape more open, accessible and equitable.