Autumn 2016 will see the council consulting on its new Borough-Wide Local Plan. The North Kingston Forum invites the residents of North Kingston to join us in preparing our own plan, a positive vision of our future made by us, for us. Do you want to be somebody who has a say over where new homes, shops and offices are built? And how they look? Or maybe you want to improve your local shopping street? Or protect your local favourite spaces? Or ensure there are enough new homes

The Housing and Planning Act 2016 introduced a range of measures to speed up and simplify the neighbourhood planning process and give more power to neighbourhood forums. Building on those reforms, the 2016 Queen’s Speech set out how new legislation would be introduced to further strengthen neighbourhood planning. It does this by ensuring that planning decision-makers take account of well-advanced neighbourhood plans and by giving neighbourhood plans full force as soon as they