Newton Flotman Neighbourhood Plan

Newton Flotman Parish Council has prepared a Neighbourhood Plan which will be used to help guide and shape future development across the parish.

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The Newton Flotman Neighbourhood Plan was made (adopted) by South Norfolk Council on 27 October 2025. This follows a local referendum on Thursday 4 September, where 92.3% of those voting did so in favour of the Plan. This means that the document now forms part of the statutory Development Plan for the district and it will be used in order to help determine planning applications within the parish.

Please view the adopted Neighbourhood Plan and related documents by clicking on the ‘documents’ link, below.

Background

In October 2023, Newton Flotman Parish Council submitted a Neighbourhood Area application for the purpose of developing a Neighbourhood Plan. The designated area is the whole civil parish and, in accordance with Regulation 5A of the 'Town and Country Planning, England - Neighbourhood Planning (General) Regulations 2012' South Norfolk Council has confirmed the designation. The parish council is the relevant body for preparing the Neighbourhood Development Plan.

Newton Flotman Parish Council submitted the Newton Flotman Neighbourhood Plan and other required documents to South Norfolk Council in February 2025. The submitted documents have been checked by the local planning authority against the relevant criteria in Schedule 4B of the Town & Country Planning Act 1990 and were approved for publication.

In accordance with Regulation 16 of the Neighbourhood Planning (General) Regulations, 2012 (as amended), there followed a period of consultation on the Neighbourhood Plan. A summary of the representations received during the consultation can be viewed in the documents section, below.

Mr Derek Stebbing was appointed to carry out an independent examination of the Plan following this consultation period. The examiner considered not only the submitted Neighbourhood Plan documents, but also the representations that were submitted during the consultation, and the responses to the examiner’s clarification note.

On 3 July 2025, the Examiner issued his final report. It contains a number of recommended modifications and states that, subject to these being implemented, the Newton Flotman Neighbourhood Plan meets the basic conditions and that it should proceed to a local referendum.

South Norfolk Council subsequently issued a decision statement detailing their intention to send the Neighbourhood Plan to a referendum, subject to modifications being made as specified by the examiner.

The Neighbourhood Plan and supporting documents can also be viewed in the documents section.

View the Neighbourhood Plan documents.