From Parish Plans to Neighbourhood From Parish Plans to Neighbourhood PlansPlans
Keith Harrison, Chief ExecutiveKeith Harrison, Chief Executive
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• Introduction & definitions• The journey to Neighbourhood Plans• Planning for the future…
From Parish Plans to Neighbourhood From Parish Plans to Neighbourhood PlansPlans
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“no-one should be disadvantaged because they live or work in a rural community”
• Formed in 1923: 15 staff, 25 contractors, 43 volunteers: Circa 700 projects per year.
• A charity (number 212796)
Action with Communities in Rural Action with Communities in Rural KentKent
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Key work areas:
• Community-led Planning, Community Asset Management, Affordable Housing, Access to Services (including broadband, retail, grants, healthcare etc.), policy-influence from a rural perspective
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• “Community Led Planning (CLP) is a step-by-step process that enables every citizen to participate in, and contribute to, improving the social, economic, environmental and cultural well-being of their local area.”
Parish Plans: A definitionParish Plans: A definition
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• A process for producing an evidence-based assessment of local need, and mandate for acting to address it
• An opportunity to ‘reality-test’ ideas and support innovation
• Something done already by 4,000 communities in England
• Something underway, or complete in 110 communities in Kent
Community-led PlanningCommunity-led Planning
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Community-led PlanningCommunity-led Planning
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• “many civic organisations and many parishes up and down the country have already instigated processes that are pre-cursers to this…for those areas that have produced a plan of this sort, this is a great opportunity to give teeth to the provisions that they’ve
worked on”Rt. Hon. Greg Clark MP, Minister of State for Decentralisation & Planning
Policy, March 2011
• A Community-led Plan with teeth, or just part of a Community-led Plan?
Neighbourhood Plans: a definitionNeighbourhood Plans: a definition
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• c.1972 – Stocksfield Neighbourhood Working Group
• 1980s, 1990s – Village Appraisals• 1990s, 2000s – Village Design Statements• 2000s – Parish Plans & Market Town Health-
checks• 2008 – Community Led Planning• 2011 – Neighbourhood Plans
The journey to Neighbourhood The journey to Neighbourhood PlansPlans
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• Participatory democracy: “get heard / share your vision”
• Save money: £80,000 per plan if done correctly?
• Opportunities for your community
Planning for the Future: Why?Planning for the Future: Why?
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• With help. ACRK and Govt. Schemes available• Using Community-led Planning Approach• Work with your local planning authority• As part of a suite of Localism Bill activity
Planning for the Future: How?Planning for the Future: How?
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• In your civil parish or, if this does not exist, a neighbourhood
• Within or across local planning authority boundaries
Planning for the Future: Where?Planning for the Future: Where?
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• Neighbourhood Plans are an evolutionary step from a community development point of view
• Neighbourhood Plans present an opportunity for all of us to inform our own futures
In conclusionIn conclusion
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Websitewww.ruralkent.org.uk/ourwork/community-planning.htmRural Officers: Carl Adams & Kathy [email protected] or
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