Help Wanted – Community Consultation: Long Leys 2025-2040 Neighbourhood Plan

The community consultation on the 2025-2040 Long Leys Neighbourhood Plan is NOW OPEN and will run until 8 March 2026. Read the plan and its supporting documents.

How You Can Help

Read the 2025-2040 Draft Neighbourhood Plan:

• • Online at https://long-leys.org/neighbourhood-plan/
  • A loan hardcopy is available for those with no online access.

Ask any questions you may have:

• • Via email: planning@long-leys.org
  • At one of the drop-in events at the Discovery Café
    • 10am-12 noon Sat 24 January
    • 10am-12 noon Sat 21 February

Give feedback on the Plan and its policies by 8 March 2026

• • Online at https://long-leys.org/consultation-feedback-on-2025-2040-long-leys-neighbourhood-plan/
  • At the drop-in events

Share photographs

If you have any photos which capture the best of Long Leys and would be happy to see included in the final document, then email them to LLRA@long-leys.org

What is the Neighbourhood Plan?

The Plan represents the culmination of several years of community effort – gathering evidence, surveying residents, and consulting on what we want for our neighbourhood’s future. It presents a clear vision and set of planning policies that will help shape Long Leys into a greener, more connected, and thriving community over the next fifteen years.

The Neighbourhood Plan sets out our community’s aspirations and policies on sustainable development, our environment, housing, and local facilities.

Future Steps Beyond the Consultation

Once the consultation period has finished (8 March 2026) then the feedback will be reviewed and the plan adjusted where appropriate. It will then be submitted to the Local Planning Authority (City of Lincoln Council) for a further review and then inspection by an independent planning inspector (likely Summer 2026). Subject to approval, a local referendum will then determine whether residents accept the plan.

Once the plan is accepted or “made”, it will become part of the statutory ‘development plan’ alongside the Central Lincolnshire Local Plan, meaning that its policies must be taken into account when planning decisions are made.

We believe this plan reflects local needs and priorities while conforming with national and local planning guidance. Above all, it is a plan by the community, for the community, to steer the ongoing development of Long Leys in sustainable and positive directions.