Commentary Part 6: Planning Chapter 3: Neighbourhood Planning Section 116: Neighbourhood planning
263.Section 116 gives effect to Schedule 9 – Part 1 of which amends the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 by inserting a number of new sections in to it - and Schedules 10 and 11 which insert two Schedules (Schedules 4B and 4C) into that Act. These new provisions will allow for planning permission to be granted through neighbourhood development orders – including a category of such orders to be known as “Community Right to Build Orders”. Part 2 of Schedule 9 amends the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004 to make provision in that Act on a new category of development plan – neighbourhood development plans. These plans and orders will be made by local planning authorities on the initiative of parish councils or neighbourhood forums.