The Lawrence Weston Neighbourhood Development Plan (NDP) sets out objectives on key themes including housing, traffic and transport, parks and green spaces, jobs and skills, community facilities, retail, health and wellbeing and urban design.
Neighbourhood Development Plan explained
For a clear overview of the Neighbourhood Development Plan, please watch this video
Why a Neighbourhood Development Plan?
Planning applications within Lawrence Weston must be considered against the Lawrence Weston Neighbourhood Development Plan (NDP) as well as existing planning policy. It supports achieving land-use objectives in the Lawrence Weston Community Plan.
The NDP means local people now have more say in how Lawrence Weston will develop. The objectives of the NDP are:
- Promote sustainable development
- Encourage the provision of new housing on a variety of sites in general conformity with the Bristol Local Plan
- Provide a diverse range of tenures, forms and size of housing to encourage a wide variety of prospective residents to Lawrence Weston
- Ensure that the highest standards of building, public realm and landscape design are achieved and maintained
- Promote more sustainable, active travel options for the residents of Lawrence Weston
- Improve accessibility and connectivity between Lawrence Weston and the rest of Bristol
- Safeguard and create local employment through the provision of flexible commercial floor space in Lawrence Weston
- Create a more diverse and affordable convenience retail offer and support existing independent shops and services
- Safeguard and improve existing, and allocate new, community services and facilities
Get involved
You can help influence how Lawrence Weston is developed: join our Planning Group or contact Ambition Lawrence Weston to find out more.
Documents and references
- Lawrence Weston Neighbourhood Development Plan
- Lawrence Weston Development Plan (Design Statement)
- Lawrence Weston Neighbourhood Development Plan (feedback)
- Lawrence Weston Neighbourhood Development Plan 2016 (Consultation Statement)
- Lawrence Weston Lettings Policy
- Neighbourhood planning: Lawrence Weston (Bristol City Council website)
- Map of the Lawrence Weston neighbourhood planning area (Bristol City Council website)
- Background on the development of the NDP and referendum on the Bristol City Council website
