We know how important Neighbourhood Plans are to a Local Council, and we know how much better they are when maps are included during the drafting and consultation phases. That's why we've taken learning from user feedback and neighbourhood plan consultant professionals to create a new set of pre-built layers in Parish Online.

These layers show up automatically in your account, and by default will be blank. They're there ready for you to use when you begin your Neighbourhood Plan. We're particularly proud of the new Views and Vistas layer which we'd urge you to try out.

We confess to knowing more about mapping than we do the ins-and-outs of a Neighbourhood Plan, which is why we've enlisted help and support from two leading Neighbourhood Plan consultants; Maureen Chaffe and Jacqueline Veater. They've helped hundreds of councils use Parish Online to produce great plans and they could help you too.