Updating the Ropley Parish Neighbourhood Plan

Why is the Neighbourhood Plan important?

Neighbourhood Plans have legal status: local councils and planning inspectors must make their planning decisions on the basis of the policies contained in the Neighbourhood Plan. Without a current one we are more at risk of over-development and will be less able to influence change in our area.

What does the current Neighbourhood Plan say?

You can read the current Ropley Neighbourhood Plan here

How can I get more involved?

The Ropley Parish Neighbourhood Plan Steering Group currently consists of seven volunteer residents; if you would also like to volunteer please contact the chair, Nicola Tindale ntindale@ropleypc.org,

Where can I find the Privacy statement?

You can read the questionnaire Privacy statement here

Where will I find updates of progress?

Updates about the Neighbourhood Plan’s progress and dates of public meetings will be published in
BisMonRopTis and on this website

Neighbourhood Plan update progress: May 2025

The Neighbourhood Plan steering group have now drafted an update to the plan making minimal changes to wording, updating out of date information and including any new planning permissions that have been granted. This modified plan has been reviewed by a planning consultant and is now ready for the public consultation stage.

We plan to hold a public consultation meeting, where you can find out about the modifications to the plan. @ The Parish Hall. Friday 16^th May between 7.30pm & 9.00pm.
Please come along to this drop in session anytime from 7.30 to talk to the team and discuss what we are doing.

A formal six week Public consultation on Ropley’s proposed new Neighbourhood Plan will run from 1^st June to 12^th July.
A copy of the modified plan and a link to the survey will be available on this page from the 1st June.

We will also have some physical copies of the questionnaire available at the shop.

Public consultation on the Ropley Neighbourhood Plan is now in progress.

This is your chance to have your say on the neighbourhood plan update. This version of the plan is intended to get protection back in place quickly and will cover the parish up until 2028. This will be followed by a completely new neighbourhood plan once EHDC issue their revised Local Plan and we know what the new housing targets will be for the parish. To make the process as fast as possible we have only made very small changes for this version of the plan. These changes include updating out of date information and updating the amount of new housing policy (RNP17) to remove housing that has already been built (the Chequers) and including new permissions that have happened since the last plan.

A copy of the draft plan is attached here.

This shows the changes to the wording (old wording is crossed out and new wording is in red) We recommend that you read this before you start the survey.

The survey is available here from 1st June: https://tinyurl.com/RNP2025-consultation

Hard copies will be available in the village shop too.

The consultation closes on 12th July so please make sure you complete the survey before then.

Last updated May 2025