planning aid england neighbourhood planning lessons learned (leeds)
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Planning Aid EnglandNeighbourhood Planning: Lessons LearnedMike Dando PAE Advisor
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What does Planning Aid England do?
• Provide free, independent, professional planning advice to people who do not have the means to pay professional fees
• Provide support and training to local communities so they can influence and contribute to planning strategy, policy and decision making
• Focus on Neighbourhood Planning Support
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Supporting Communities in Neighbourhood Planning 2013-2015
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• DCLG supported programme launched on 15 April 2013 and applications opened on 1 May 2013
• Two main aspects to support: grants and direct support
• Also a shared learning element • There is one consortium delivering the programme,
rather than four support organisations as before• The programme was open to groups who had already
had SCNP support and to new groups
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We Provide a Valuable Service…
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‘Top 10’ Community Challenges
• The Neighbourhood Area – a boundary that makes ‘community sense’ & ‘planning sense’• Forums – constitutions,
structures, management & maintenance• Project Plan – doing it,
seeing it, acting on it!
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‘Top 10’ Community Challenges
• Engagement – the ‘hard to reach’; getting beyond the residents; constructive!• Evidence Base –
technical & robust; fact vs opinion• The small matter of
‘Writing The Plan’ …………………………………….
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‘Top 10’ Community Challenges
- the planning context- ‘strategic elements’- adopted but out of date vs
emerging but 3 years off adoption; balancing trick
- writing ‘planning policy’- allocations: pin-sticking &
working backwards- consultants – who, how
much, how to instruct
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‘Top 10’ Community Challenges
• EU Obligations – building them in; getting the necessary done
• Supporting Statements - just when they thought it was safe…..• Resourcing – human,
financial, time• Time – flies by & yet is never
ending……….
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Examples of good LPA support - Camden• Supporting highest number
of Neighbourhood Forums in London (10); Kentish Town, Highgate, Somers Town, Fitzrovia, West Hampstead
• Dedicated officers• Cross-boundary plans &
complex issues (e.g. HS2)• Regular attendance at forum
meetings, comments on policies by email
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Examples of good LPA support - Doncaster
• 5 NAs designated• Regular officer meeting
attendance• Ceding of site allocations &
support, eg Armthorpe, Thorne Moorends
• Specialist support, eg flood risk in Thorne; SEA
• Detailed comment on emerging NP drafts, eg Burghwallis
• Good www – self-produced resources & signposting
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Examples of good LPA support - Wakefield• 2 NAs designated• Excellent support re
SEA/HRA/SA – officers did all the work for Walton
• Excellent support re preparation of NP proposals maps – again officers did the work for Walton!
• Detailed comments on emerging NP drafts & pre-submission plan
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Examples of good LPA support - Hambleton• 4 NAs designated• Good officer support – moving
to officers allocated to NPs by area
• Good support re SEA – new internal processes on way, eg Appleton Wiske
• Carrying out of housing needs assessments, eg Appleton Wiske & Huby
• Detailed comment on emerging NP drafts
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What can local authorities do to offer more support to groups?
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• Early engagement re NA boundary proposals• Community development/legal support for
emerging forums• Promote awareness of/access to evidence base• Explain policy context & its implications – strategic
elements!• Provide clarity re growth that a NP will need to
work with• Provide comments on early policy/land use
intentions & emerging NP drafts – include DM in this!
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What can local authorities do to offer more support to groups?
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• Carry out SEA/HRA for groups (resources/capacity allowing!)
• Timely engagement re post-submission stages• Commit staff time to attending group meetings• Signpost to external support sources• Provide funding (sic); facilitate smooth/fast access
to Frontrunner funding still being held• Provide consistency & clarity throughout the
process• Work fully in the spirit of the ‘duty to support’!
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Advice Line: 0330 123 9244E-mail: [email protected]
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