Neighbourhood Planning - Fleckney Neighbourhood Plan Review 2025

Record details

Current Neighbourhood Plan Stage Plan under review
Adopted Neighbourhood Plan

Read the adopted (May 2021) Fleckney Neighbourhood Plan - Referendum Version (6.95MB)

View a map of adopted Fleckney NDP Policies 2020 (9.29MB)

Fleckney Parish Coucnil commenced a review of the adopted Neighbourhood Plan in November 2022.
Neighbourhood Plan Review

Fleckney Parish Council commenced their Neighbourhood Plan review in autumn 2022.

SEA Screening

Fleckney Parish Coucnil submiited the draft Fleckney Neighbourhood Plan review for SEA screening in July 2025

Aug 2025 - the Council is waiting for the evidence base to be made public prior to commencing screening

The information required is;
  • Local Green Space assessments ENV1 (appendix 3)
  • Important Open Spaces evidence ENV2 (Appendix 2)
  • Sites and Features of Natural Environment Significance evidence ENV3 ( Appendix 2)
  • Sites of Historic Environment Significance evidence ENV5 (Appendix 2)
  • Non-Designated Heritage Assets evidence (ENV7)
  • Design Guidance and Codes D1 (Appendix 2)
  • Housing Needs Assessment (referred to in Policy H4 – Appendix x)
Approval of Neighbourhood Area

Neighbourhood Area Amendment October 2025

NOTICE: Designation of Fleckney Neighbourhood Area 2025

Dated – 28 October 2025

In June 2025 Harborough District Council (‘The Council’) received an application from Fleckney Parish Council for an amendment to the designation of the Fleckney Neighbourhood Area which was originally designated on 24 March 2016 with an amendment to the southern boundary designated on 13 December 2022.

Fleckney Parish Council is a Qualifying body for the purposes of neighbourhood planning

After a 6 week publicity period and consultation between 9 July 2025  and 20 August 2025 the Council did not receive any comments relating to the application for the amendment to the Neighbourhood Area.

In accordance with Part 2 Regulation 5 of the Neighbourhood Planning (General) Regulations 2012 the Council is able to confirm that the organisation is a relevant body for the purposes of section 61G of the 1990 Act and the application is in compliance with Part 2 Regulation 5 of the Neighbourhood Planning (General) Regulations 2012 and the Fleckney Neighbourhood Area is designated from the date of this notice.

Reason For Designation

The Council has determined that the amended Fleckney Neighbourhood Area is a logical amendment and allow for expansion of Fleckney to the north of the village. The  Reorganisation of Community Governance Order if and when proposed by the Parish Council for 2025/26 the boundary of the parish will be amended to be contiguous with the revised neighbourhood area boundary as part of this review. (Plan attached to this notice)

Copies of the application letter and plan of the Neighbourhood Area can be viewed on the Council website as per part 2 Regulation 6 of the Neighbourhood Planning (General) Regulations 2012.

The amended Fleckney Neighbourhood Area was designated by the Portfolio Holder for Planning and the Director for Planning on 28 October 2025.

Amendment November 2022

In November 2022 Harborough District Council (‘The Council’) received an application for an amendment to the designation of the Fleckney Neighbourhood Area from Fleckney Parish Council as the Qualifying Body.

The Neighbourhood Planning (General) and Development Management Procedure (Amendment) Regulations 2016 (SI 2016/873) (“2016 regs”) came into force in October 2016 and amended the Neighbourhood Planning (General) Regulations 2012 (SI 2012/637)  (“2012 regs”) to speed up and simplify neighbourhood planning.

Regulations 2(2) and 2(4) prescribes two cases where an Local Planning Authority must designate all of the neighbourhood area applied for.  These are:

•             Where a parish council applies for the whole parish to be designated as a neighbourhood area; or

•             Where a parish applies to enlarge an existing designation of a smaller part of the parish to cover the whole of the parish, (this requirement does not apply where some of the parish is already part of a neighbourhood area that extends beyond the parish boundaries).       

Regulation 5A  states that the Local Planning Authority must designate the neighbourhood area if it extends to the entire parish.

Reason For Designation

The new application amends the original boundary to take account of the Fleckney Parish boundary included as part of the boundary review in 2021.

Whilst the Regulations to not specifically allow for a Neighbourhood Area to be withdrawn a new designation can be submitted by the Qualifying Body (Parish Council). If the new Neighbourhood Area is the entire parish as updated then the LPA can designate without the need for a 6 week consultation. (Regulation 5A applies)

Where a parish council applies for the whole of the area of the parish to be designated as a neighbourhood area, the local planning authority must designate the whole of the area applied for. This includes where a parish applies to extend its existing neighbourhood area to its parish boundary. Exceptions to this are where the area applied for:

  • has already been designated as a neighbourhood area which extends beyond the parish boundary; or
  • forms part of another application that has not yet been determined.

Saddington Neighbourhood Forum amended its boundary in 2021 to take account of the boundary review so there is no conflict between the two neighbourhood areas (Saddington and Fleckney). Neither of the exceptions apply as a result of the boundary review and Fleckney Neighbourhood Area is approved for designation by the Portfolio Holder for Planning as the entire parish of Fleckney (as amended).