Regulation 18 Local Plan Consultation 2025

Your plan, your future, your say

Breckland moves towards public consultation on its new Local Plan 

Following the decision by Breckland Council's Cabinet a major public consultation has taken place that gave local people the chance to help shape how the district grows and develops over the next 20 years. 

The consultation on the Council's new Local Plan invited everyone who lives, works, studies, runs a business in Breckland and/or is interested in how Breckland is developed to have their say on where new homes, jobs, and infrastructure should go, and how best to protect the character of the towns, villages, and countryside that make Breckland special. 

At its heart, the campaign asked a simple question: how should Breckland grow? 

Through the message "Your plan, your future, your say," the consultation invites residents to get involved in shaping the long-term vision for the district — ensuring that future growth reflects local priorities on housing, the environment, transport, jobs, and community facilities. 

The public consultation on the Draft Plan ended on Monday 15th December 2025. This stage of the local plan (known as Regulation 18) set out the Council's draft policies and growth strategy and is an important stage in the plan-making process. It provided an early opportunity for our communities, businesses, landowners, developers, partners and stakeholders to 'have a say' and comment on the draft Local Plan before it is considered further and then finalised for the next (Regulation 19) stage. Further public consultation will take place at the Regulation 19 Stage.

View a copy of the Draft Plan (PDF, 9 MB)(opens new window)

View the Policies Map (opens new window)

Documents supporting the Draft Plan can be viewed in the Evidence Base

Consultation events

The Council held a number of drop-in events where the Plan could be seen and where Council Officers were available to explain it and discuss matters.

Information on the dates and times of the public events were as follows:

• Swaffham - Swaffham Assembly Rooms (Indoor Market) - Date: Friday 7 November - Time: 9:30 - 13:00
• Thetford - Thetford Library - Date: Monday 10 November - Time: 10:00 - 13:00
• Dereham - Dereham Library - Date: Thursday 13 November - Time: 10:00 - 13:00
• Attleborough - Attleborough Library - Date: Friday 14 November - Time: 11:00 - 14:00
• Watton - Watton Library - Date: Wednesday 19 November - Time: 12:00 - 15:00

We also hosted four evening consultation events:

• Roudham and Larling Strategic Development Area - Tuesday 18 November - 17.30-19.30 at Attleborough Town Hall, Queens Square, Attleborough, NR17 2AF
• East Tuddenham Strategic Development Area - Wednesday 19 November - 1730-19.30 at the committee suite at Elizabeth House, Walpole Loke, Dereham, NR19 1EE
• North Open Consultation Event - Tuesday 2 December - 17.30-19.30 at the committee suite at Elizabeth House, Walpole Loke, Dereham, NR19 1EE
• South Open Consultation Event - Wednesday 3 December - 17.30-19.30 at the committee suite at Elizabeth House, Walpole Loke, Dereham, NR19 1EE

Virtual Event

In addition to all of the above in-person consultation events, we held an online event on 8 December.

Redacted versions of representations (e.g. without most of your personal information being made public) will be published after the consultation ends

All comments received by the 15 December deadline will be considered as part of the process of preparing the next version of the Local Plan, known as the 'Pre-Submission' or 'Regulation 19' version.

Last modified on 18 November 2025