plunkett foundation: developing local assets
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Delivered by Peter Cleasby of the Plunkett Foundation at the Living Villages Summit in Hereford on 24 June 2011.TRANSCRIPT
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
01993 810730www.plunkett.co.uk
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