York Minster has worked collaboratively with key stakeholders, including City of York Council and the local community, to develop a Neighbourhood Plan. It sets out an ambitious masterplan to sustain and enhance the cultural significance and environmental value of York Minster’s Precinct and its buildings through specially created planning policy. Delivery of the Neighbourhood Plan will signal the biggest programme of planned works at York Minster and within the Minster Precinct Neighbourhood Area in 150 years.

It is crucial in not only meeting the ongoing restoration challenges we face but ensuring the Minster and its Precinct continue to flourish for generations to come. Sustainability sits at the heart of its aims for the next 15 years, specifically around three core strands of environmental, financial and heritage craft.

It is the first time that a Neighbourhood Plan, prepared by the York Minster Neighbourhood Forum, has been used to map the future of a cathedral or heritage estate.

You can view all documents relating to the Neighbourhood Plan below.

York Minster Neighbourhood Plan Forum has submitted an application to the City of York Council for the re-designation of its Forum. The York Minster Precinct Neighbourhood Forum was originally designated on 14 March 2019 and the York Minster Precinct Neighbourhood Plan was formally made on 16 June 2022.

As a forum designation lasts for five years, the current Forum’s designation has expired and they have therefore applied to the City of York Council to be formally redesignated in accordance with the Town and Country Planning Act 1990, the Localism Act 2011 and the Neighbourhood Planning (General) Regulations 2012 (as amended).

Redesignation will enable the forum to continue to support the implementation of the York Minster Precinct Neighbourhood Plan covering the York Minster Precinct Neighbourhood Area, which remains unchanged.

The consultation is run by the City of York Council and runs from Wednesday 4 December 2024 to 11.59pm Wednesday 29 January 2025, and comments are invited from the public and interested parties.

You can view the York Minster Precinct Neighbourhood Plan Forum Redesignation application HERE.

Comments on the documents can be sent via email or in writing to this postal address:

Strategic Planning Policy Team

City Development Directorate

City of York Council

West Offices

Station Rise

York

YO1 6GA

Please note, comments (via email or post) should be sent to the City of York Council (who are hosting this consultation), and NOT York Minster or the York Minster Neighbourhood Plan Forum.