localism event presentation (paper f)

8/7/2019 Localism Event Presentation (Paper F)

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Neighbourhood Development Plans and

Neighbourhood Orders

• Localism bill which is currently at committee stage – Gov hope

receive Royal Assent by the end of 2011 – but could be as late

as 2012

• Neighbourhood Development Plan sets the desires and needs

of a community

• Neighbourhood Order is for a specific land use on a given site

or specific type of development – the Order grants permission

– thereby bypassing normal planning process



Neighbourhood Development Plan

• Linked to the community right to build – recognised a topdown target driven approach has alienated communities – theaim is to offer real opportunities for the community to have asay

• Either Parish Councils or neighbourhood forums have tofacilitate the process

•

Not all areas will want a Neighbourhood Plan, so it is NOT astatutory duty to prepare one, only a ‘right’ to do so



Neighbourhood Planning (2)

• A Neighbourhood Plan must:

– Specify period for which it will have effect

– May not include provision to exclude or stop development

– May not relate to more than one neighbourhood area

• Require them to take into account certain matters

– Prescribe their form

– Regulations may require Neighbourhood Plans to undergo

independent examination



Cont…

• 50% of the community have to vote in a referendum in favour

of the plan for it to be brought into effect and form a new local

level of the planning system

• Local authority must publish each neighbourhood

development plan that they make

•

Local Authority will act as mediator



Successful neighbourhood plans

• Role of Parish Council and Neighbourhood forum is not to do

the plan – but to facilitate and help people develop a local

approach to shaping future

• Successful neighbourhood planning built from balanced,

inclusive and widespread involvement of local people

•

Good engagement inspires and motivates, it generatesenthusiasm and commitment



Neighbourhood plans and the LDF

• What kind of plans does the coalition government want?

• Combining strategic and local Greater engagement, or plan-

making by communities?

•

What is transferable from the best of the existingarrangements?

• How should development plans provide for community

planning?



Funding

• Groups will have to find the cash to pay for the plans

themselves

• Neighbourhood planning vanguard initiative will be provided a

grant of up to £20,000 in 12 pilot neighbourhoods

• Local authorities will have to help put the plans together, but a

charge will be payable to LPA when work commences on a

development authorised by a neighbourhood plan



Questions

• The LPA would define the boundary – what if the LPA don’t

agree with the defined boundary

• The ideas in the Neighbourhood plan have to accord with local

and national policy – so important that the community still

have a say in IOW plan

• How does a community reach the hard to reach groups

• Who pays?



Scope and Scale of plans will vary, as will costs

• Considerable interest from communities – but who will carryout the work? Planning officers? Consultants?

•

• Jon Herbert at Colin Buchanan said ‘perhaps the bigger

question at this stage is who is going to pay: local authorities,communities or developers?



Neighbourhood Development

Orders

• Neighbourhood Development Order (NDO) grants permission

in relation to a particular neighbourhood area for

(a) development specified in order

(b) class of development specified in order

• Regulations expected to cover consultation



Cont.

• Process includes:

– Independent examination of order – includes hearings in

public

– Holding local referendums on orders

• The Local Authority must make a Neighbourhood

Development Order if “more than half of those voting in a

referendum …have voted in favour of the order”



Threats

• More likely that well resourced plans will be more successful in

higher growth neighbourhoods

• Problems in areas with weaker markets

• Caroline Flint questioned them ‘a vehicle for those with the

loudest voices and deepest pockets to impose their will on the

rest of the community’.

• CLG have published an impact assessment on the proposals at

the end of Jan 2011



Contact

• Martha James MRTPI

• Tel: 0870 2407552

• Website: planningaid.rtpi.org.uk

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