The Emsworth Neighbourhood Forum appointed Feria Urbanism to support the preparation of its neighbourhood plan.

Emsworth is a small town in Hampshire on the south coast, near the border of West Sussex, with a population of about 10,000. It lies at the north end of an arm of Chichester Harbour, a large and shallow inlet from the English Channel — and has a basin for small yachts and fishing boats, which fills at high tide and can be emptied through a sluice at low tide.

Our role was to rework the extensive amount of material already prepared by the community into a neighbourhood plan of an appropriate format and with the right content, also preparing maps, diagrams and other visual materials that have been integrated into the plan.

The final plan was approved at referendum in July 2021 with a 91% yes vote on a turnout of 23%.