Boreham Neighbourhood Plan consultation
About Neighbourhood Plan consultations
Parish-tier councils, or other organisations, can take the lead in creating neighbourhood development plans, community plans and orders for planning in their area. We will help to create the plans, and make decisions at key stages.
Boreham Neighbourhood Plan
Boreham Parish Council has developed a draft Neighbourhood Plan for the Parish and formally submitted it to us. The plan proposes local planning policies for Boreham.
It covers the whole of the Parish, and includes planning policies for matters including heritage, natural environment, landscape, transport and access, community infrastructure, and building design. Once adopted, it will become part of Chelmsford’s Local Plan.
We are inviting comments on the draft Boreham Neighbourhood Plan until 4pm on 4 March 2026. We have set out details of the consultation arrangements in a Consultation Guidance Note.
Submission documents
The submission is made up of the following documents:
You can read and comment the draft Neighbourhood Plan on our Consultation Portal. This is a simple way of making your comments, and you can sign up to be notified about future planning policy consultations. You can also update your contact details.
You can view our portal guidance instructions to find out how to register, or for what to do if you have forgotten your registration details.
As an alternative to using the Consultation Portal you can print acomments form and return it by:
- email to planning.policy@chelmsford.gov.uk
- post to Planning Policy Team, Spatial Planning Services, Chelmsford City Council, Civic Centre, Duke Street, Chelmsford, CM1 1JE
You can also write to us, but you need to include your name and address.
If you do not have access to a computer, you can request paper copies of the documents. We can send you the comments form free of charge. However, for the draft Neighbourhood Plan we may make a charge to cover printing and postage costs. If you have difficulties making representations by email or post, you can contact us.
We will publish all comments on our Consultation Portal, in accordance with our privacy policy.
We will send all the submission documents and comments to an independent examiner. They will decide whether the Boreham Neighbourhood Plan should proceed to referendum. If we do hold a public referendum in the area covered by the Plan, and more than 50% vote ‘yes’, we will adopt it.