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Action for Market Towns’ advocacy of community-led planning fits in with the new coalition government’s  policy to ‘give neighbourhoods far more ability to determine the shape of the places in which their inhabitants live’.

A new AMT briefing note looks at the coalition programme and also the Conservative Open Source Planning Green Paper and concludes that ‘AMT’s track record and campaign for community-led planning is in-tune with the new Coalition Government’s focus on helping people shape the places where they live through a collaborative process.’

Click here to download the briefing paper.

AMT research in Northumberland shows that new coalition policies for involving local people in planning have much to learn from the rural experience.  From the findings of the research, it would seem that community-led planning processes -widely used in rural areas for years- can play a pivotal role in delivering the new coalition government’s aspirations to help people shape the places where they live.

Click here to download more details of the Northumberland research.