Alnwick Town Council, working with Denwick Parish Council, is responsible for the Review.

A steering group has been set up to prepare the Review and topic groups from the Alnwick Partnership have been doing the actual work preparing the plan. We prepared the draft review over the autumn and winter of 2024 drawing on all your comments at the options stage in Spring 2024 and it was published at the end of July 2025.

Consultation on the plan took place from end July till mid September 2025 and both the community and statutory consultees and other interested groups were encouraged to comment on the draft Review. We received a good range of comments and these have all now been considered by the Steering Group and the proposed response to the points raised is set out on this website under Stage 3 in the documentation section. The amendments to the Review have now been made and the amended plan has been submitted to Northumberland County Council to complete the formal stages. These final stages include a further consultation at the Publicity Stage (which started on 26th June and ended on 7th August), an examination by an independent examiner (Mr Timothy Jones - Barrister FCIArb) now underway which may result in further modifications before the plan goes to a local referendum. At the referendum stage all voters in the Neighbourhood Plan Area will have the final say on whether it should be adopted as the plan for Alnwick and Denwick.

We hope to reach the stage of the Local Referendum around the end of 2026/early 2027 when the Review should be ready to be adopted.

How can YOU get involved?

There is still time to vote in the local referendum when that happens hopefully later this year. The Review is your plan and we need your input.