Neighbourhood Plan for West Malling
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| Location | West Malling, Kent, United Kingdom |
| Coordinates | 51° 17' 43.45" N, 0° 24' 34.06" E |
This page has been created, following the public meeting in November 2024, to introduce and begin "Creating a Neighbourhood Plan to protect and enhance West Malling". It's intended to provide useful information on Neighbourhood Plans and Neighbourhood Planning additional and complementary to information on West Malling Parish Council (website).
News
Neigbourhood Plan Community Survey for West Malling, westmallingpc.org (Apr 16, 2025) — A survey form is dropping through West Malling letter boxes. It has been sent out by the Parish Council to collect information on how everyone would like to see West Malling develop, or be protected from change, in future. The Neighbourhood Plan will eventually be published and a public vote will take place before being submitted to TMBC. Once approved, it will carry equal weight to the Local Plan. Please have your say. You can also complete it on line at surveymonkey.com
Events
Jun 28, 2025 (Sat) — A future vision of West Malling, West Malling Parish Council
Video
Below: Example Vision video, Video introducing community energy from Kent Community Energy, Example Neighbourhood Development Plan video: Although from 2017 this short video mentions what I'm guessing are common themes of many Neighbourhood Plans.
Neighbourhood Planning
Since 2012, (and as of Sep 2017) over 2,200 groups have started the neighbourhood planning process, covering areas of nearly 12 million people across England. Over 400 successful neighbourhood planning referendums have now taken place, with an average 'yes' vote of 88%...gov.uk
Resources to help with Neighbourhood Planning
All the links below have been checked 14:20, 25 November 2024 (UTC)
- Neighbourhood planning in a climate emergency, cse.org.uk, Feb 2020, added 16:30, 5 December 2020 (UTC)
- Neighbourhood Planning Support, from Locality.
- Neighbourhood Planning, information from My Community
- Affordable and community-led housing, information from My Community
- Neighbourhood planning, Woodland Trust
- A Transition Guide to Neighbourhood Plans
Examples of completed Neighbourhood Plans
| Authors | Phil Green |
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| License | CC-BY-SA-4.0 |
| Cite as | Phil Green (2024–2025). "Neighbourhood Plan for West Malling". Appropedia. Retrieved November 28, 2025. |