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Preservation of neighborhood character is often given as a reason for [[NIMBY|opposition to development of an area]].
== Australia ==
Neighbourhood character has become a key term in the planning system of [[Victoria, Australia]].<ref>[http://www.dse.vic.gov.au/dse/nrenpl.nsf/FID/-CE458E11B5343AEDCA256D480003CF30?OpenDocument#character Victorian Government, Dept. of Sustainability and Environment]</ref>
▲Neighbourhood character has become a key term in the planning system of [[Victoria, Australia]]<ref>[http://www.dse.vic.gov.au/dse/nrenpl.nsf/FID/-CE458E11B5343AEDCA256D480003CF30?OpenDocument#character Victorian Government, Dept. of Sustainability and Environment]</ref>. Since 2001, it has been the mandatory starting point for assessing all permit applications for residential development in established urban areas in that state. In its formal use in the planning system, it refers to the qualities that make one neighbourhood distinct from another, and encompasses a range of physical components of the built environment, architectural style, street width and layout, vegetation, fence height and style, and so on. Every urban place has a neighbourhood character.
There has been much dispute in Victoria with regard to the use of this term because of its qualitative aspects, which rely mainly on subjective judgement. The planning system is focused on physical planning and the built environment, but residents groups such as [[Save Our Suburbs]] have suggested that the term is too vague on the one hand, and not broad enough on the other as it doesn't incorporate an understanding of the social and cultural character of residential neighbourhoods.
Neighbourhood character is regulated in Victoria through a variety of planning instruments within [[ResCode]], the statutory code for residential development. The [[Neighbourhood Character Overlay]] is the most stringent regulatory device and works in a similar way to a [[Heritage Overlay|heritage]] control. Its first implementation was for the [[Hedgeley Dene Gardens]] precinct in the [[Melbourne]] suburb of [[Malvern East]].<ref>[http://www.stonnington.vic.gov.au/news/media/mediaarchive/10056/2468/2740 Stonnington City Council]</ref>
== Canada ==
Neighbourhood character is a prominent term in the Canadian planning system. For example, since its adoption in 1995, Vancouver's strategic policy 'City Plan' has focused on the creation of a city of distinct neighbourhoods, each with its own identity and neighbourhood character.<ref>[http://vancouver.ca/commsvcs/planning/cityplan/dfvs.htm Vancouver City Plan]</ref>
▲Neighbourhood character is a prominent term in the Canadian planning system. For example, since its adoption in 1995, Vancouver's strategic policy 'City Plan' has focused on the creation of a city of distinct neighbourhoods, each with its own identity and neighbourhood character<ref>[http://vancouver.ca/commsvcs/planning/cityplan/dfvs.htm Vancouver City Plan]</ref>.
== UK ==
[[File:Arlington Row Bibury.jpg|thumb|Arlington Row [[Bibury]]]]
Neighbourhood character has become an important issue in planning policy in the UK, as a background study area for informing the Local Development Frameworks of the Core Strategies. This process is ongoing. A detailed and robust study of neighbourhoods is seen as essential to producing future plans for growth. It has been recognised in Brighton & Hove Urban Characterisation Study that people live in neighbourhoods, not character areas.<ref>[http://www.brighton-hove.gov.uk/index.cfm?request=c1162887 Brighton & Hove Urban Characterisation Study]</ref>
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