Great Brickhill Neighbourhood Plan submission consultation

Overview

We want to hear the views of local residents and organisations on the Neighbourhood Plan for Great Brickhill.

In August 2023, the Parish of Great Brickhill was designated a neighbourhood area by Buckinghamshire Council. This followed an application by Great Brickhill Parish Council.

Great Brickhill Parish Council has now completed a period of local community engagement on the Great Brickhill Neighbourhood Plan and have submitted the final version to us.

The next stage of the process is for us, as the local authority, to carry out a public consultation on the submitted plan.

This is the final opportunity for local people to comment on the plan before it goes to independent examination.

The Great Brickhill Neighbourhood Plan includes policies to shape local development to:

Protect the countryside and environment
- safeguard landscape character, important views, Local Green Spaces, biodiversity and wildlife corridors, dark night skies, green buffers betweeen settlements, and manage flood risk through sustainable drainage
Manage housing growth sensitively
- set criteria to guide any potential development north of the A4146, support homes that meet local needs including smaller and adaptable housing, provide for an ageing population, and control the scale and design of extensions and replacement dwellings
Protect heritage and secure good design
- conserve heritage assets and their settings, require high-quality design that reflects local character, promote sustainable and low-carbon construction, and support community-led renewable energy
Support village life, access and infrastructure
- protect and encourage community facilities and local employment, ensure development contributes to infrastructure, and improve transport safety, walking and cycling accessibility

How to submit a comment

You can submit a comment in one of the following ways:

complete the online survey using the link below
complete, and return, a printed version of the survey (PDF 0.20MB)
email us at neighbourhoodplanning@buckinghamshire.gov.uk
write to us at Great Brickhill Neighbourhood Plan, Planning Policy Team, Buckinghamshire Council, Walton Street Offices, Walton St, Aylesbury, HP20 1UA

If you have any questions about this consultation, please email us at neighbourhoodplanning@buckinghamshire.gov.uk or phone us on 01296 383 698.

You will need to provide your name and address when responding as planning law states that we cannot accept anonymous comments.

If you would like to be notified of future progress with the neighbourhood plan, please tell us in your response.

Please make sure we receive your comments by 11:59pm on Thursday 2 July 2026. We cannot consider any comments received after that deadline.

What happens next

Following consultation, we will collate the responses and submit them to an independent examiner.

The examiner will consider public comments and ensure the plan meets the basic conditions in the Localism Act and other relevant regulations.

If the plan passes independent examination, the next stage is a local referendum to see whether it has community support.

If the neighbourhood plan is supported, we will adopt it as part of local planning policy to assess planning applications in the neighbourhood area.

Privacy

We will use the information you provide here only for this activity. We will store the information securely in line with data protection laws and will not share or publish any personal details. Survey responses will be analysed using Microsoft products including Copilot, Excel and Word. For more information about data and privacy, please see our Privacy Policy.

If you have questions about data and privacy, please email us on dataprotection@buckinghamshire.gov.uk. Or write to our Data Protection Officer at Buckinghamshire Council, The Gateway, Gatehouse Road, Aylesbury, HP19 8FF.

Give us your views

Online survey

Areas

North Bucks Community Board

Interests

Communities
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