localism event presentation (paper f)
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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
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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
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Not all areas will want a Neighbourhood Plan, so it is NOT astatutory duty to prepare one, only a ‘right’ to do so
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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
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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
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Local Authority will act as mediator
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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
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Good engagement inspires and motivates, it generatesenthusiasm and commitment
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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?
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What is transferable from the best of the existingarrangements?
• How should development plans provide for community
planning?
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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
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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?
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Scope and Scale of plans will vary, as will costs
• Considerable interest from communities – but who will carryout the work? Planning officers? Consultants?
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• Jon Herbert at Colin Buchanan said ‘perhaps the bigger
question at this stage is who is going to pay: local authorities,communities or developers?
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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
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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”
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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
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Contact
• Martha James MRTPI
• Tel: 0870 2407552
• Website: planningaid.rtpi.org.uk