neighbourhood planning: the national picture
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Neighbourhood
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Planning
A TI ONAL
ICTURE
“I love Wells but I am concerned about
its future. I feel detached from the
political process and the
neighbourhood plan gives me a chance
to have a say.”
John Chettoe, Wells Neighbourhood Plan
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The POWER to make planning policy or grant
planning permission
Neighbourhood Plan
Local development plan
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Neighbourhood Planning
Means:
Local Plan
A growing
movement
January 2013
A growing
movement
April 2013
A growing
movement
October 2013
A growing
movement
March 2014
A growing
movement
January 2015
Designation Applications
Designated areas
Designation areas
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Woodcote NP
conforms with
existing parish
boundary
Huxley & Foulk Stapleford NP
covers several parishes
St James NP
covers a ward in
the city of Exeter
“We have spent a year engaging with residents in a whole range of ways,
everything from attending school parents’ evenings, to translating the information
into Polish. We wanted everyone to have an input”
Cllr Matthew Brown, cabinet member for community engagement, Preston on Fishwick & St Matthews
Chair bombing (Headington)
The writing’s on the wall (Downham Market)
Charrette (Kirdford)
Rave (Tattenhall)
Postcard competition (Winsford)
3D models (Heathfield Park)
Stadium tours Street champions School lessons and projects
Village fete NP tour bus
Draft neighbourhood plans
Submitted for examination
Examination
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The four basic conditions that a neighbourhood plan must conform with are:
1. Be appropriate, having regard to national policies and
advice
2. Be in general conformity with strategic policies of the
development plan
3. Contribute to sustainable development
4. Be compatible with EU obligations
The basic conditions in full can be found at:
http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2011/20/schedule/9/enacted
Thame Examination Hearing
Passed examination
Referendum
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"Do you want [local planning authority]
to use the neighbourhood plan for
[neighbourhood area] to help it decide
planning applications in the
neighbourhood area?"
Referendum
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“Voting NO for a neighbourhood
plan does not mean a vote for
no development, but for NO
CONTROL over development”
Nick Boles MP, former Housing and Planning Minister,
2013
1,300+Communities are
neighbourhood
planning
6.1 millionpeople
52Successful
referendums
TOP 5 AUTHORITIES FOR
DESIGNATIONS
Herefordshire – 88
Cornwall – 49
Leeds – 33
Wiltshire – 29
Stratford on Avon - 26
TOP 5 AUTHORITIES FOR
MADE PLANS
Arun – 10
Broadland – 3
Cheshire West & Chester – 2
Harborough – 2
South Oxon – 2
Wolverhampton - 2
Neighbourhood
Planning
Steps
STEP 1:Get informed:
mycommunityrights
E.g. Locality ‘Road Map’
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STEP 2:Designate
Neighbourhood Planning Area + Forum
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STEP 3: Consultation and
community engagement
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STEP 4: Local Authority
publicise the plan
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STEP 5: Examination of plan
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STEP 6: Referendum
STEP 7: Plan Made!
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6 weeks
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6 weeks
28 working days (double for business areas)
Made neighbourhood plans
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Number of policies per plan
The Power of Neighbourhood Planning
Neighbourhood planning policies can cover a broad spectrum of issues:
• Choose where new housing should go and what it should look like
• Plan for more housing than the Local Authority
• Grant planning permission for the developments you want
• Protect and enhance your High Street
• Decide how community infrastructure levy money is spent
• Protect and enhance your favourite green spaces
• Define and secure your local heritage
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We spent…
• In the small coastal village of Lympstone: £6,389
• In the large village of Broughton Astley: £14,312
• In the Exeter ward of St James: £10,450
• In the deprived urban area of Heathfield Park: £19,500
• In the coastal towns of Lynton & Lynmouth: £27,681
• In the small Norfolk village of Strumpshaw: £4,220
Average: £13,758
£3,455 Printing
£280 Wood for posters
£263 Stationary and ink
£141 Miscellaneous costs (CDs, post,
refreshments and photocopying)
£44 Land registry
£36 Room hire
TOTAL SPEND: £4,220
Sample of spend - Strumpshaw
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£5,000 Project planning advice & Graphic
design
£3,820 Rural Community Council
(consultation events,
design/analysis of survey)
£3,035 Printing & distribution
£360 Advertising in newspapers
£210 Environmental data from
Leicestershire Council
£130 Postage
TOTAL SPEND: £14,312
Sample of spend – Broughton Astley
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Resources for
Communities
£22.5million of grants for communities preparing a
neighbourhood plan.
• All groups can apply for up to £8,000
• Groups in ‘priority areas’ can apply for a further
£6,000, plus direct support
Applications for grants will open shortly, and money
will be available from the start of April
Resources for
Authorities
A new £12million pot to assist LPAs in their duty to
provide advice and assistance to communities.
Each LPA receives £30,000 per group:
• £5,000 at designation (plus £5k per designated
Forum)
• £5,000 at submission
• £20,000 after successful examination (plus £10k
per business area)
Tools, templates & support
www.mycommunityrights.org.uk
Neighbourhood
Planning
Champions
Network
http://bit.ly/1gVcMbg
Regulatory reform
Set time limits for local authorities to
take decisions on area designations:
• 20 weeks where area falls within
two or more local authorities
• 8 weeks for parish/town council
areas
• 13 weeks in all other cases
Time period runs from the date on which
the application is first publicised by the
local planning authority
Other impacts
• Catalyst to engagement - In Exeter St James, the neighbourhood
forum has formed a Community Trust to manage aspirational
projects identified within its plan. It has already renovated a
communal garden space, and intends to work next on allotments
and sustainable homes.
• Changing attitudes - In Woodcote, the neighbourhood plan helped
turn local attitude towards development around from 90% against to
90% in favour, because the community now felt in control of potential
development, rather than at its mercy.
• Catalyst to further work – In Uppingham, the community is now
working on a Town Centre and Business Zone Plan to enhance and
shape economic development of the town.
• Improving relations – the process of making a neighbourhood
planning brings communities together and also improves their
working relationship with local authorities.
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Parish council
Neighbourhood Plan
= 25% uncapped, paid to
Parish
Parish council
Neighbourhood Plan X
= 15% capped at £100 /
dwelling, paid to Parish
Parish council X
Neighbourhood Plan
= 25% uncapped, local
authority consults with
community
Parish council X
Neighbourhood Plan X
= 15% capped at £100 /
dwelling, local authority
consults with community
Community Infrastructure Levy
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Other Community Rights
• Community Right to Bid– ‘pause’ the sale of buildings or land you care about
• Community Right to Build– build new shops, houses and services without the usual planning
processes
• Community Right to Challenge– run a community service if you think you can do a better job
• Our Place– more power to deign local services in your area
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