Neighbourhood planning
Find out about local groups drawing up plans for their areas.
Ovingdean Neighbourhood Forum and Neighbourhood Area applications
In March 2025 residents of Ovingdean applied to create a neighbourhood area and forum. This would allow them to plan the future of their area.
The proposed neighbourhood area includes Ovingdean and parts of the South Downs National Park. It covered the 3 wards of:
- Woodingdean
- Whitehawk & Marina
- Rottingdean & West Saltdean
The consultation was open for 7 weeks from 26 March to 14 May 2025.
On 13 May 2025, the Ovingdean neighbourhood group withdrew their applications. They intend to resubmit an amended neighbourhood area application and forum application shortly.
Neighbourhood planning for your area
The following groups are already working on neighbourhood planning in the city, and you can get involved by contacting them.
There are 3 neighbourhood areas in the city with ‘Made’ Neighbourhood Plans that have been examined, been through a referendum and adopted by the city council, these are:
There are a further 4 neighbourhood areas designated in Brighton & Hove:
- Hangleton & Knoll area has a designated neighbourhood area and neighbourhood forum
- Coldean has a designated neighbourhood area and neighbourhood forum
- West Saltdean has a designated neighbourhood area and neighbourhood forum
- Hove Park area has a designated neighbourhood area. The neighbourhood forum designation has now lapsed.
Download a map showing the locations of the designated neighbourhood areas.
Neighbourhood planning assistance for neighbourhood forums
Find out how we can help neighbourhood groups with neighbourhood planning.