A New Guide: Your Neighbourhood – Your Voice

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New guide: Your Neighbourhood - Your Voice

Planning can be complicated with many terms, rules and jargon that most people do not understand.

But it does play an important role in creating the places that we see and use everyday, so it is important to try and engage with it. This guide has been produced to help people understand the role that planning plays in everyday life and some examples of how you can use it to make your local area even better.

This guide explains:

  1. Why planning is important
  2. The role of Central government in planning
  3. The role of Regional government in planning
  4. The role of Local government in planning
  5. How you can partake in planning (and examples of other community groups that have done this successfully)

  Read Your Neighbourhood - Your Voice here

Illustrated city scene- with colourful buildings of all different sizes, there are roads with diverse people walking on as well as some black cabs and red double decker buses. People are walking with bags, riding bikes, in wheelchairs, walking dogs etc. There are green trees dotted about the city scene as well as red telephone boxes and street lights.