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What is Coleford Neighbourhood Development Plan?
CNDP helps guide and shape land use and development in the parish. FoDDC use this alongside their emerging Local Plan and the National Planning Policy Framework to decide on planning applications.
Coleford Town Council will be responsible for the final review document, but we need skills, expertise and interests of local people to create this. Please get involved. The current CNDP, now seven years old, runs until 2026 so it’s now time to review and decide how we see Coleford’s future. So whether you live, work, go to school or just visit Coleford regularly we’d like you to help create the vision of how the town might look in years to come, to shape decisions that will affect the way the town grows and flourishes.
This affects the whole Coleford area so your opinions are important if you live or are involved in any of the surrounding villages and areas, including Coalway, Milkwall, Broadwell, Mile End, Forest Grove, Scowles and Whitecliff.
Let us know what matters to you and listen to what affects others. Join a theme group: the town centre, the local economy, housing, community and community facilities, transport and infrastructure, the natural environment and historic environment.
We want your views on the future of Coleford!
Have you got a special space, a terrific tree, a beautiful building, a valued view in Coleford that you think needs conserving? It might already be in the Coleford Neighbourhood Plan, but it might not.
Send us its exact location, a picture of it, and give us the reason you think it is important for Coleford.
Send your contributions to us at CNDPReview@outlook.com
Find the existing Plan and its policies is at https://www.colefordtowncouncil.gov.uk/neighbourhood-development-plan/current-plan .
We are using this as a basis to review, at September 2025, progress is being made on the following:
- vision and objectives
- consultation findings to date
- work on comparing with other NDP reviews which have been made
- monitoring efficiency of existing NDP
- awareness of FoDDC Local Plan progress and consultation (open for comment until 11th Sept)
- updating of statistics
- integrating Community Regeneration Plan and Citizen Vision
- for each theme group, new evidence added to address changes and fill gaps
- looking forward to 2043 in terms of climate change and sustainability
If you’d like to know more/be kept updated, send us your contact details to CNDPReview@outlook.com
If you want to get more involved, come to one of our theme groups below.
Theme Groups
1. Coleford Town Centre and 2. Economy - 25th September 5.30pm
4. Community and Community Facilities - 16th September 5.30pm
5. Historic Environment - 2nd September 5pm
6. Natural Environment - TBC
7. Transport, infrastructure and Accessibility - 16th September 7pm