living villages 1 - developing local assets
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Developing Local Assets
Peter CleasbyChair, Plunkett Foundation
Living Villages, Hereford, 24 June 2011
PROBLEM?Loss of rural
services:
• Privately owned ££££££
• Public sector owned ££££££
• Community owned
£££ + ACTION£££ + ACTION
CHOICES Loss of rural
services:
Do nothing
OR
Take control
Helping rural communities
through community
ownership to take control of
the issues affecting them
NEEDS
• Belief
• Support
• Plan
• Assets
BEINSPIRED
There are over 250 community shops in Britain.
10% of all village shop closures are saved through community ownership
They continue to open.
BE INSPIRED
And it’s not just shops …
• Energy schemes
• Broadband
• Farms
• Pubs
• …. and more
PUBS?
There are 5 community-owned pubs in Britain.
4 are in rural areas.
PUBS!
• 1 pub closes for good every 8 hours
• 1300 pubs closed in 2010
• There are 5 community-owned pubs in Britain.
WHY SO FEW?
ENABLERS
• The False Start (2010)– 82 communities asked for help to
save their pub
• Localism Bill (2011)– Neighbourhood plans– Right to Buy
• Support programme (?)
GET READY
• Build community support for pub
• Demonstrate need for pub in neighbourhood plan
• Persuade council to register pub as “asset of community value”
• Carry on drinking
TAKE ACTION
• Council notification
• Mobilise support
• Develop business plan
• Secure funding commitments
• Submit bid
• Persuade owner to sell
TRICKY BITS
• No right of appeal against non-inclusion on register
• Narrow window for submitting bid
• No business support scheme
SUPPORT
You won’t be alone ….
• Experience of existing 5 pubs
• Plunkett Foundation advice
….. and for the future?
• Financial support package?
• Community pubs network
REMEMBER
It’s a business
It’ll be hard work
You can do it
GET IN TOUCH
mike.perry@plunkett.co.uk
info@plunkett.co.uk
01993 810730www.plunkett.co.uk
Facebook – Plunkett Foundation@PlunkettFoundat
@Mike_Plunkett
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