Neighbourhood Planning Activity in East Herts

Current News

• Stanstead Abbotts and St Margarets Neighbourhood Plan Regulation 16 consultation is now underway, and you can comment on the Plan until Friday 14 March. Details of the Plan and how to comment are available here.
• East Herts Council's Executive agreed the Hertford Castle Plus Neighbourhood Area Designation on 9 July 2024. More information about the designation is set out in the neighbourhood area table below.
• Walkern Neighbourhood Plan First Revision was adopted by the Council on 24 July 2024.

Neighbourhood Plans

The Neighbourhood Plans that are at a more advanced stage are displayed below. Please click the name of the Neighbourhood Area to view further details of the individual Neighbourhood Plan.

Neighbourhood Plan Updates

Communities with Made neighbourhood plans can review or ‘modify’ their plans at any time, although it is not compulsory to do so. The nature of any proposed changes or modifications will affect the process that the neighbourhood plan will need to go through when being reviewed. National guidance sets out three types of update or modification which can be made: 

• Minor (non-material) modifications to a neighbourhood plan are those which would not materially affect the policies in the plan. These may include correcting errors, such as a reference to a supporting document, and would not require examination or a referendum. 
• Material modifications which do not change the nature of the plan would require examination but not a referendum. This might, for example, entail the addition of a design code that builds on a pre-existing design policy, or the addition of a site or sites which, subject to the decision of the independent examiner, are not so significant or substantial as to change the nature of the plan.
• Material modifications which do change the nature of the plan or order would require examination and a referendum. This might, for example, involve allocating significant new sites for development

Silverleys and Meads Neighbourhood Plan, All Saints, Central, South and Parts of Thorley Neighbourhood Plan and ~Walkern Neighbourhood Plan First Revision have all been updated recently. The revisions have now been adopted and the 'Made' plans can be viewed in the table above. Other Neighbourhood Plans that are being updated as part of a review will be listed below.

Designated Neighbourhood Areas

Below are the Neighbourhood Areas that have been designated in East Herts. These areas have not yet published a draft of their Neighbourhood Plan and therefore have not reached the Regulation 14 Consultation stage.