In order to access the neighbourhood planning initiative in areas where there is no parish or town council, a community needs to establish an appropriate qualifying body. This is typically a neighbourhood forum.

Malden Rushett Community (MRC) is the prospective neighbourhood forum for Malden Rushett.

MRC has been set up to undertake a task that cannot be done by the Malden Rushett Residents Association:

• to write planning policies for the village that will be used to assess future planning applications.