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Information Classification: PUBLIC Neighbourhood Planning Mabe Parish Council Esther Richmond September 2019 Information Classification: PUBLIC Contents What is a Neighbourhood Plan what can it do? The Policy Framework in

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Neighbourhood Planning

Mabe Parish Council

Esther Richmond September 2019

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Contents

  • What is a Neighbourhood Plan – what can it do?
  • The Policy Framework in Cornwall
  • Process
  • Support
  • Communication and declarations of interest
  • Next Steps
  • Templates and examples
  • Questions
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What is a Neighbourhood Development Plan?

  • A parish plan with teeth and development/ land

use focus, to be adopted by Cornwall Council following referendum

  • Sets out policies in relation to development and

use of land in the parish A Neighbourhood Development Plan can:

  • Express local priorities
  • Set local design and quality criteria
  • Allocate sites for housing and other development
  • Safeguard important assets

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What can Neighbourhood plans do?

Neighbourhood plans must:

  • Be permissive
  • Be about land use planning
  • Be produced by the community

Neighbourhood Plans cannot:

  • Conflict with local or national policy
  • Propose less growth than strategic plan
  • Override strategic policy
  • Specify higher levels of building regs above the

National Standards (i.e. Code for Sustainable Homes level 4)

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Where does a Neighbourhood Development Plan fit in?

National National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) & Guidance (NPPG) Cornwall Cornwall Local Plan:

  • Strategic Policies
  • Site Allocations
  • Minerals Safeguarding
  • Community Infrastructure

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Parish Neighbourhood Development Plan

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Neighbourhood Planning in Cornwall

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Neighbourhood Planning Cornwall

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Process

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Cornwall Council Core Support Offer

  • Community link officer – initial options, funding,

project planning communication and engagement

  • Neighbourhood planning officer– project support,

consultations, toolkit, mailbox

  • Neighbourhood planning officer – plan

development, evidence base, policy writing

  • Toolkit and guide notes
  • neighbourhoodplanning@cornwall.gov.uk
  • Monthly e-bulletin
  • Quarterly Surgeries

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Use the templates on the toolkit!

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Use the mapping tool!

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Funding Support

Locality can provide a grant and/or technical support through professional assistance and advice for groups developing Neighbourhood plans. The programme will provide support to groups through the following:

  • Basic grant of up to £9,000
  • Technical support through expert partners AECOM and
  • ther specialists
  • Affordable Housing for Sale Grant Funding
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Locality Funding

  • The grant can be used by groups to fund things such

as training sessions, help with developing the evidence base, carrying out housing a housing survey and developing a website.

  • The grant cannot be used towards administration

costs, funding salaries, paying for volunteer time and purchasing capital items such as a laptop.

  • Each application should be for an amount between

£1,000 - £9,000.

  • All grant funding needs to be spent within 12 months
  • r by the end of the financial year by 31st March
  • 2020. Any grant unspent by this date will need to be

returned.

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Communications

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Consultation

  • Check that you have established exactly how the

steering group will work with the Town Council.

  • Building on what you have already gathered,

decide which of the emerging issues should be included in your plan.

  • You could put other issues aside as a draft

community action plan that you can come back to later.

  • Using your agreed themes, bring people together

to discuss. Consider workshops

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Top Tips – Early stages

  • Project management focus – keep going!
  • Recruit volunteers and use existing community

resources and equipment before sourcing funding

  • Focus on key issues – don’t replicate the Local Plan
  • Consult residents via questionnaires, community

events, tailoring engagement to demographic in parish

  • Keep Parishioners informed of progress through

parish newsletter, local press

  • Create a NDP website/webpage and keep it

updated with meeting minutes, consultation and progress

  • Engage early on with stakeholders
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Examples of consultation

  • Mawnan consultation branding
  • Roche – publicity & questionnaire
  • Carlyon Bay

– questionnaire analysis

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Weight of Emerging and Made NDPs

excerpt from Briefing Note: Weight of Emerging Neighbourhood Plans

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Top Tips – Monitoring & Implementation

  • Hold an open meeting to launch the NDP.
  • Refer to NDP Policies when considering & discussing

planning applications.

  • Discuss and clarify any particular policies at PC meeting

and agree a common understanding/interpretation.

  • List relevant NDP policies when responding to CC planning
  • fficer.
  • Work with CC planning officers to clarify any

issues/applications that conflict with the plan.

  • If and when required both PCs meet to discuss a particular

issue and agree a joint course of action e.g. petition.

  • Continually work with the NDP and local community to

share “Best Practice” and improve understanding.

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Recent Appeal Decisions

  • Principal Residence
  • Appeals to lift the condition dismissed in St Ives Area

and St Minver Parishes

  • Condition applied when appeal to build new house in

Rame Peninsula allowed

  • Development Boundary
  • Appeal for new site outside settlement boundary

dismissed – St Minver Parishes

  • Appeal for site outside settlement boundary dismissed -

Liskeard

  • Design
  • Larger replacement dwelling allowed – Roseland
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Lessons learned from Appeals

  • Ensure your justification and evidence is robust -

the test at appeal will be tougher than examination

  • Design policies which describe character and ask

proposals to respond are stronger than set restrictions

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Further Information

  • Neighbourhoodplanning@cornwall.gov.uk

Cornwall Council Neighbourhood Planning Toolkit https://www.cornwall.gov.uk/environment-and- planning/planning/neighbourhood-planning/

  • Locality https://neighbourhoodplanning.org/
  • NP Examiners reports https://www.cornwall.gov.uk/environment-

and-planning/planning/neighbourhood-planning/neighbourhood- planning-regulations-and-legal-requirements/neighbourhood- planning-examinations-and-referendums/ Esther Richmond Falmouth & Penryn Community Link Officer esther.richmond@cornwall.gov.uk 01872 324809 / 07528983366