Spitalfields Neighbourhood Planning Forum is a

Neighbourhood Forum Neighbourhood Forums are a construct of Local government in England and are defined in the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 as a body that organises the production of a neighbourhood plan. Where town or parish councils exist those bodies may a ...

made up of local

Spitalfields Spitalfields is a district in the East End of London and within the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. The area is formed around Commercial Street (on the A1202 London Inner Ring Road) and includes the locale around Brick Lane, Christ Church, ...

residents, business operators and community organisations who represent the range of interests in the ''Spitalfields Neighbourhood Area'' (which is a business neighbourhood area). The area covered is a small part of the London Borough of Tower Hamlets,

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, mainly along that borough's western border with the

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. The bounds of the neighbourhood area were designed to cover a similar area to the ancient

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of Spitalfields. The Spitalfields Neighbourhood Planning Forum (or SNPF) was officially designated by Mayor of Tower Hamlets John Biggs in April 2016. The conditions for neighbourhood forum designation are set out in the

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and the powers of Neighbourhood Forums to create Neighbourhood Plans are set out in the

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. Tower Hamlets has several other neighbourhood forums in Limehouse, East Shoreditch and the Isle of Dogs that have been similarly designated by the council and which allow local people to help shape neighbourhood planning policies and local services in their area.

External links

spitalfieldsforum.org.uk
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