#neighbourhoodplanning

THE WHAT

&

THE HOW

PAS

April 2014

#neighbourhoodplanning

A quick reminder of what neighbourhood planning is…

• POWERto make planning policy or grant planning permission

• RESPONSIBILITY

to meet need and support growth

• INVESTMENTthrough Community Infrastructure Levy*

* Communities with a neighbourhood plan in place receive 25% of CIL

Applications to designate

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Urban areas - fine grain detail & projects Pinterest: http://www.pinterest.com/nplanning/neighbourhood-plans

Meeting need & supporting growth

Business Neighbourhood Planning

Neighbourhood Development Orders & Community Right to Build

Artist’s Impression of Cockermouth http://www.allerdale.gov.uk/downloads/Vanguards_Scheme_Bid_-_Allerdale_BC.pdf

WE’VE DONE IT!

• Congratulations to all ESJF members and associate members

• On the evening of 16th July Exeter City Council adopted the Exeter St James Neighbourhood Plan.

• The Plan now forms part of Exeter’s statutory development plans and in future the policies it contains will be used to help determine planning applications.

• This decision can also be seen as the green light for projects which have been proposed.

• The Steering Group has been eager to make a start with Queens Crescent Garden, the top priority project, and plans are being made for the setting up of a Community Interest Company to assume responsibility for the development and future management of this community green space

Thame

• I have experience of community development work but somehow this was different. It involved understanding the constraints imposed by environmental and planning issues, of accepting growth in an area where everyone wanted to close the town’s gates.

• Instead of a top down approach – this is what is best for your area, it was a bottom up approach – this is what we want so go and make it work in planning terms. Tension erupted as the “professionals” had to listen and produce rather than produce and inform.

• The status of the town council has definitely changed, somehow it seems there is more respect for what a town council does and can do. The district council is involving us at the first stage of planning enquiries.

Helen Stewart, Town Clerk

“ The first major planning application judged against a neighbourhood plan

that allocates housing sites has been approved in an Oxfordshire town.

South Oxfordshire District Council’s planning committee unanimously

approved outline plans on Wednesday evening for 175 homes in Thame.”

(PlanningResource 15 November 2013)

Advice issued as guidance

Resources

Learning from others

Neighbourhood Planning Champions Network

http://bit.ly/1gVcMbg

Neighbourhood Planning and

Students• Give hard pressed neighbourhood planners an

injection of help and enthusiasm from students

eager to learn about planning and put their learning

to practical use

• Give students

experience of real world planning, community

perspectives, and a major reform to the planning

system

the basis for essays and research

• Help to embed neighbourhood planning in the

practice and culture of planning over the long term

“ We have, I think, now reached the point where there has been enough experience of neighbourhood planning with enough different kinds of communities for us to learn lessons and to ask whether there is not a version of neighbourhood planning that might be more easily accessible and quicker for some communities. We are doing that work, and we are very keen to hear from any hon. Members and communities with their thoughts on how we can achieve that”.

Nick Boles, Minister for Planning, 3 March 2014

Review Objectives

• Gather evidence on the implementation of neighbourhood planning to establish how the process could be improved

• Make recommendations on how best to improve the system to make it more efficient and least burdensome – so that more communities take it up and those that do get to the end of the process more quickly.

• Assess whether there is a case for new options, or revised processes?

• To understand the current take up of NDOs and CRtB to ensure whether these options are sufficient for areas who wish to permit growth can do so with, or without, the development of a NP.

• Understand what might enable a broad range of areas to undertake neighbourhood planning, e.g. urban, non-parished neighbourhoods

• Understand the effectiveness and targeting of the current support package.

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