Policy Context

888 This document represents the Neighbourhood Plan for Shepton Mallet neighbourhood area, being one part of the development plan over the period 2006 to 2028, the other part being the Local Plan Part II for Mendip District Council 2006 - 2029.1 Following unitary authority status in April 2023, these policies will remain in force.

Mendip District Council, as the local Planning Authority (LPA), designated the Shepton Mallet Neighbourhood Area in February 2014 to enable Shepton Mallet Town Council to prepare the Neighbourhood Plan. The Plan has been prepared by the community through the Shepton Mallet Neighbourhood Plan Steering Group (SMNPSG) on behalf of Shepton Mallet Town Council. The Shepton Mallet Neighbourhood Plan has been prepared in accordance with the Town & Country Planning Act 1990, the Planning & Compulsory Purchase Act 2004, the Localism Act 2011 and the Neighbourhood Planning Regulations 2012 (amended in 2015). The SMNPSG has prepared the plan to establish a vision for the future of the neighbourhood area and to set out how that vision will be realised through planning and controlling land use and development change over the plan period 2014 to 2036. The map in Figure 1 shows the boundary of the Neighbourhood Plan area.