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#neighbourhoodplanning A quick reminder of what neighbourhood planning is POWER to make planning policy or grant planning permission RESPONSIBILITY to meet need and support growth INVESTMENT through Community Infrastructure Levy* * Communities with a neighbourhood plan in place receive 25% of CIL Slide 2 Designation Applications 1000 Slide 3 Designated areas 850 Slide 4 Slide 5 This data was informally gathered from internet monitoring and is being constantly updated A growing movement Slide 6 This data was informally gathered from internet monitoring and is being constantly updated A growing movement Slide 7 This data was informally gathered from internet monitoring and is being constantly updated A growing movement Slide 8 This data was informally gathered from internet monitoring and is being constantly updated Slide 9 Slide 10 In the pipeline 80+ full drafts for consultation 40+ submitted for publicity and examination Slide 11 Does this plan meet the basic conditions? Slide 12 The referendum question Do you want..... District Council to use the neighbourhood plan for the..... area to help it decide planning applications in the neighbourhood area? Slide 13 14 The number of neighbourhood plans to get to referendum. All passed. Slide 14 Referendums so far Slide 15 58% 1013 852 96 44 1410 ApplicationDesignationDraft Plan Examination ReferendumMADE Neighbourhood Planning From the Ground Up 195 188 Local Authorities ApplicationsDesignated 60% 188 Slide 16 Business Neighbourhood Planning Slide 17 Neighbourhood Development Orders Slide 18 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 towns 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 Slide 19 The early evidence from Leeds is that the neighbourhood planning process can have a positive role to play in the future of communities and creating a consensus around that future and the form it might take. This future is not just about managing growth in prosperous middle class areas, but crucially, as the evidence of Holbeck is beginning to demonstrate, has a real role to play in unleashing untapped resources and initiatives latent in the local communities in the more deprived areas of the UK. Neighbourhood planning is a welcome experiment in modern planning that deserves its chance to continue. Phil Crabtree, Chief Planning Officer & Ian Mackay, Team Leader, Neighbourhood Planning, Leeds City Council Journal of Urban Regeneration & Renewal, September 2013 Slide 20 Slide 21 Upper Eden Neighbourhood Plan approvals: 6 Applications: 3 Slide 22 WEVE 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 Exeters 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 Slide 23 Students and neighbourhood planning Slide 24 Slide 25 Slide 26 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 Slide 27 Masters Planning students at Oxford Brookes undertaking their dissertation are making a major contribution to the Headington Neighbourhood Planning process. The presentation from students had an extraordinary range of brilliant ideas to promote participation. Can we improve participation in our plan through Mad/Sad/Glad boards, visioning festivals, chair bombing or other means? Students have given us wonderful think pieces. Invigorating to have a fresh set of eyes. Some of their ideas will definitely feature in the plan. Headington Neighbourhood Forum Slide 28 Resources Slide 29 Slide 30 LPA = 30k 5k @ designation (+ 5k for forums) 5k @ submission 20k @ successful examination (+ 10k for business areas) Support, Examination and Referendum Slide 31 Communities Bespoke direct support And ( /or) 7k Mycommunityrights.org.uk Slide 32 Neighbourhood Planning Champions Network http://bit.ly/1gVcMbg Slide 33 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 Slide 34 #neighbourhoodplanning Planning Guidance: http://planningguidance.planningportal.gov.uk/ My Community Rights: www.mycommunityrights.org.uk/neighbourhoodplanning LinkedIn: Neighbourhood Planning @JJDadge@CommunitiesUK twitter.com/Billers_Roden/lists/neighbourhood-planning Pinterest: www.pinterest.com/nplanning/neighbourhood-plans/ Notes on Neighbourhood Planning https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/notes-on-neighbourhood-planning Slide 35 mick.duggan@communities.gsi.gov.uk james.dadge@communities.gsi.gov.uk