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Parish Liaison Meeting – 4 June 2014 W l Welcome John Richardson Head of Community Services

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General Updates Wendy May y y Community Focus Team Leader

Council website – www.nwleics.gov.uk

• The new council website is now

live www.nwleics.gov.uk live www.nwleics.gov.uk

• Thank you very much for your

feedback ahead of the launch – h ll l dl d this is still gladly received

• It’s currently in its ‘soft launch’

phase – live, but not promoted phase live, but not promoted

• We will start actively marketing

the new site from w/c 23 June d ld lik h l and would like your help

• Posters / postcards will be sent

to you, to distribute within your to you, to distribute within your parishes

• Thanks again for your ongoing

i h hi j C li A h C i ti T L d support with this project Caroline Ashman – Communications Team Leader tel: 01530 454546 email: caroline.ashman@nwleicestershire.gov.uk

Rural Affordable Housing

in North West Leicestershire in North West Leicestershire Paddock Close, Long Whatton

We work with Midlands Rural Housing:

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‐ consult with residents (surveys and drop‐in sessions) ‐ 2014 to 2018 all rural settlements will receive a survey ‐ survey timetable http://www.nwleics.gov.uk/pages/rural housing

Langley Close Diseworth

survey timetable http://www.nwleics.gov.uk/pages/rural_housing

‐ this is not unique to NWLeics and is happening across

Leicestershire as part of a countywide programme

Langley Close, Diseworth

Opportunities to find out more:

‐ Midlands Rural Housing could attend a future parish

David Taylor Close, Heather

‐ Midlands Rural Housing could attend a future parish liaison meeting, or ‐ a special meeting /workshop sessions for rural parishes

David Taylor Close, Heather

Richard Mugglestone (Midlands Rural Housing) tel: 01530 278080 email: richard.mugglestone@midlandsrh.org.uk

Parkfield Crst, Appleby Magna

Ruth Robinson (North West Leicestershire District Council) tel: 01530 454611 email: ruth.robinson@nwleicestershire.gov.uk

Precept and Council Tax Support Grant Precept and Council Tax Support Grant

In future both payments will be processed as separate transactions and will be shown as two amounts in your council’s account.

Pritesh Padaniya – Financial Team Manager tel: 01530 454707 email: pritesh.padaniya@nwleicestershire.gov.uk

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Local Plan update Steve Bambrick Director of Services

N i hb h d Pl i Neighbourhood Planning Gary Kirk

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Introduction

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Introduction

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Neighbourhood Planning

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What is it?

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What is it?

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What does it involve?

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Opportunities and issues

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Opportunities and issues

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Neighbourhood Planning in NWL

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Ellistown and Battleflat

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Ashby de la Zouch

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Discussion

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 Yourlocale – set up to support

community rights

 Gary Kirk – Former CEO of

y Government funded housing Regeneration Company; Neighbourhood Planning g g Independent Examiner; Parish Councillor

 Andrew Towlerton – Planner; former  Andrew Towlerton – Planner; former

Head of Planning; Local Council’s Officer; Parish Clerk Mik P t C it

 Mike Preston – Community

engagement specialist

P t f L li A d

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Part of Localism Agenda

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Simplification – planning seen as being remote and complex p

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Transfer of planning powers

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Opportunity for local people to shape and i fl Pl i P li influence Planning Policy

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Very different to the Parish Plan …

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Involves drafting of policies that form part

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Involves drafting of policies that form part

• f decision making process

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Covers housing; open space; buildings; d i hi h t i f t t design; highways; assets; infrastructure

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Wide ranging – needs strategic compliance p

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 12-18 months to complete  Very few prescribed stages:

D i ti Q lif i B d

 Designation as Qualifying Body  Consultation throughout  Evidence base profile; needs  Evidence base – profile; needs

assessments; policy conformity

 Writing of policies

Writing of policies

 Formal publication by local

authority

 Independent Examination  Referendum  If passes – Plan ‘Made’

St t f ti ti ith

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Structure for negotiations with Developers and local authority

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Neighbourhood Plan policies will be a k d i i ki d t key decision-making document

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More than just influence – you will be listened to ….

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If no plan – speculative development

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Passport to other funding streams

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Grant funding to cover costs

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Grant funding to cover costs

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Extra work for Council – especially Parish/Town Clerk!

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Recent decisions demonstrate importance

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Recent decisions demonstrate importance

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First 12 months policies summarised

D i t d b NWLDC i M h 2014

 Designated by NWLDC in March 2014  Funding secured

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 Steering Group established  Leaflet; questionnaire; promotion started

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 Evidence gathering – analysis of documents  Visioning exercise  Consultation in June  Policy development  Further consultation July  May 2015 approx. completion

D i t d b NWLDC i M h 2014

 Designated by NWLDC in March 2014  Consultation well underway

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 Some funding secured  Theme groups about to start

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 Town Centre vitality  Economic growth

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 Housing/built environment  Accessibility and transport  Leisure schools open spaces  Leisure, schools, open spaces

 End 2015 completion

Any Questions? Any Questions?

www yourlocale org uk www.yourlocale.org.uk

Sam Howlett Sam Howlett

Community Action Team Leader

• Method to engage the community in discussions

about how an area should develop/ improve.

• Determine key issues, priorities, and local needs
• Help decide whether to progress with other projects

and initiatives (e.g. Neighbourhood Planning). ( g g g)

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Placecheck in North West Leicestershire

• Initiated by Ashby Woulds Town Council and

Oakthorpe, Donisford, & Acresford Parish Council p S ccessf l bid to LCC Big Societ Grants

• Successful bid to LCC Big Society Grants
• Match funding and support from NWLDC
• RCC contracted to lead facilitation of process

Placecheck in North West Leicestershire

• Awareness raising & initial consultation April 2014

Awareness raising & initial consultation April 2014

• Series of Community Walks in June 2014

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Moira – W/C 16th June Donisthorpe – W/C 23rd June Donisthorpe – W/C 23 June

• Follow up Questionnaire to all households

Follow up Questionnaire to all households

• Results determine priorities & recommend action

Results determine priorities & recommend action

• Toolkit / How to Guide to be produced - Sept 2014

Toolkit / How to Guide to be produced Sept 2014

COMMUNITY ACTION TEAM

0116 2662905 ruraladvice@ruralcc.org.uk @RCC_Bulletin

r ralcc org k www.ruralcc.org.uk

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Investing in our communities Wendy May y y Community Focus Team Leader

We are developing a number of initiatives to help groups and organisations undertake www.nwleics.gov.uk large and small scale projects in their communities:

• Large scale projects (worth over £40,000 ) – funding for new

g p j ( ) g and innovative projects that have significant community benefit

• Small grants scheme (previously One‐off grant) – launch October 2014
• Green Footprints Community Challenge – supporting communities

to be cleaner and greener

• 2014 tree schemes – free tree scheme and hedge fund,

community orchards and urban tree planting working in community orchards and urban tree planting, working in partnership with the National Forest Company

A free funding training session is being offered by Voluntary Action Leicestershire www.nwleics.gov.uk to groups in North West Leicestershire. Monday 30 June at 10am ‐ 12.30pm and Wednesday 2 July at 5pm ‐7.30pm Council Offices, Coalville

The session is an introductory session and will cover the following:

• Describe methods by which groups may be able to raise funds
• Describe the key features of a project plan
• Explain the importance of project plan in fundraising within the groups
• Compare and contrast good and bad funding applications
• Identify ways in which groups may identify possible sources of funding

To book your place contact:

Daphne Robinson tel: 01530 454704 il d h bi @ l i hi k email: daphne.robinson@nwleicestershire.gov.uk

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North West Leicestershire A d F C it C t Armed Forces Community Covenant John Richardson Head of Community Services

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Th A d F C i C i bli d l i h h il The Armed Forces Community Covenant is a public declaration that the council will work to support serving and former members of the armed forces community. As part of this commitment, the council will:

• Nominate an Armed Forces Champion
• Nominate an Armed Forces Support Officer
• Nominate an Armed Forces Support Officer
• Use its website to provide information
• Fly a Flag for Armed Forces Day

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• Mark Remembrance Day
• Recognise Armistice Day
• Provide housing support to members of the armed forces

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• Provide access to council leisure services
• Provide information on health services
• Continue to recognise the importance of local war memorials
• Promote the Community Covenant Grant Fund Support

www.nwleics.gov.uk COMMUNITY COVENANT GRANT ‐ CRITERIA AND GUIDANCE COMMUNITY COVENANT GRANT CRITERIA AND GUIDANCE

• Applications should meet at least one of the aims of the Community Covenant
• Bids may only be submitted from areas which have already established a Community Covenant in their area
• There needs to be a clear demonstrable benefit to Armed Forces Community and their local community
• Applications should be genuinely local projects and designed by local organisations
• Applications must demonstrate value for money
• Applications should not ‘gap fill’ a service that is or should be provided by others
• Applications should not gap fill a service that is or should be provided by others
• Projects submitted must not generate a profit, top‐up an existing Grant‐in‐Aid or raise funds the for

charitable sector

• MOD can only provide one off funding
• The application is more likely to be successful if the non‐Service element of the partnership (e.g. Local

Authority, or charity) also commit to incurring expenditure;

• Applications are invited for sums from £100 to £250,000

COMMUNITY COVENANT GRANT ‐ HOW IT WORKS AND CRITERIA FOR FUNDING Copy available at the meeting tonight and at www.nwleics.gov.uk/pages/parish_liaison

www.nwleics.gov.uk EXAMPLES OF PROJECTS COULD INCLUDE (BUT NOT RESTRICTED TO): EXAMPLES OF PROJECTS COULD INCLUDE (BUT NOT RESTRICTED TO):

• Bringing together Armed Forces dependants with others in the local community Activities

through community activities in rural, isolated areas;

• One‐off activities, such as an activity camp involving the Armed Forces and local young people, in which the

Scheme would meet the travel and subsistence costs of the Service participants;

• An exhibition at a local library/town hall etc, explaining what a local Armed Forces unit has recently been

going (eg in Afghanistan);

• An “oral history” project, where the local branch of a regimental association, locally based Armed Forces

personnel or a specific group of Armed Forces personnel recorded their experiences or discussed them with local schoolchildren;

• Enhancement of existing community facilities used by both local and Armed Forces communities to enable

new activities that will led to greater integration.

Armed Forces Support Officer Goff Lewis – Cultural Services Team Manager t l 01530 454601 il ff l i @ l i t hi k tel: 01530 454601 email: goff.lewis@nwleicestershire.gov.uk

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Fly tipping and dog fouling Jackie Sykes y Street Action Team Street Environment Manager

Fly Tipping Campaign

Launch: July

• Belvoir Shopping Centre
• Ashby Market Street
• Display of white goods (representing an ambulance) & display

Plans:

• Prevention using stop & search with Police
• Duty of Care visits
• Calendar leaflet drop to 40,000 homes (completed)

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• Road shows at DIY outlets
• Enforcement using cameras at hotspot areas
• Farm Watch

Farm Watch

• Signage

How can you help?

• Take our message back to your part of the District
• Look out for unlicensed scrap metal operators (licence should be displayed in

the front screen of the vehicle)

• Help the Enforcement Team by reporting vehicle details of suspicious activity

Dog Fouling

DOG WATCH DOG WATCH

North West Leicestershire District Council & Leicestershire Police to “embark”! on a new initiative to be launched 13th July at Ashby Show

• Recruiting dog walkers to report suspicious behaviour
• Compiling a data base
• Dedicated email address

Dedicated email address

• Facebook & Twitter
• Promote responsible dog ownership
• Working with vets RSPCA Dogs Trust & charities to assist with behaviour issues
• Working with vets, RSPCA, Dogs Trust & charities to assist with behaviour issues
• Combat anti social behaviour
• From 6th April 2016 there will be compulsory micro chipping
• The aim is to re-unite dogs with their owners

The aim is to re unite dogs with their owners

• Reduce the numbers of dogs destroyed (6000 per year are put down)
• Identify unruly dogs
• Reduce the cost of collecting/re-homing stays

Dog Fouling

Keep Britain Tidy Social Experiment

T t t b h i h if b i t h d

• To test behaviour change if being watched
• Took place March-April at 8 hot spot areas
• Signs with various messages-all glow in the dark eyes
• 12 other partners involved
• Results will be available shortly & we will adopt the most successful design

Dog Fouling

Flag & Tag

F ll i f l il t t Di th “Fl & T ” kit it bl f td

• Following a successful pilot at Diseworth “Flag & Tag” kits, suitable for outdoor

use, are being developed for use at hotspot areas. Th kit ill i t f ll i t & b f i ll d i d d

• The kit will consist of yellow spray paint & a number of specially designed card

flags “Is this Your Dogs?” to highlight dog fouling instances.

How to report an environmental crime……

• Telephone Customer Service Centre 01530 454545
• Email street enforcement@nwleicestershire gov uk

Email street.enforcement@nwleicestershire.gov.uk

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• Date, time and type of incident.
• Address/location of incident.
• Description of offender

Description of offender.

If applicable……..

• Details of vehicle, registration, make, model and colour.

Type/size and colour of dog

• Type/size and colour of dog.

What to do to discuss environmental

• Contact Jackie Sykes or Ruth Mulvany on 01530 454600

Further environmental information: l i k/litt

• www.nwleics.gov.uk/litter
• www.nwleics.gov.uk/dontmuckaround
• www.lovewhereyoulive.org
• www keepbritaintidy org
• www.keepbritaintidy.org
• customer.services@nwleicestershire.gov.uk
• Customer Service Centre 01530 454545

Thank you for your attention. Any Questions? Any Questions?

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Parish charter update Wendy May y y Community Focus Team Leader

P i h h t d t

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Parish charter update

• District and Parish/Town working party established

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Appleby Magna, Ashby de la Zouch Town Council, Belton, Castle Donington, Ellistown and Battleflat, Long Whatton and Diseworth and Oakthorpe, Donisthorpe and Acresford

Proposed timeframe

• June ‐ meeting/workshop session (awaiting responses)
• Sept‐Nov ‐ revised draft charter consultation

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• December – update to Parish Liaison meeting
• Adoption by District and Parish/Town Councils – Jan to March 2015

CONSULTATION

• 10. North West Leicestershire District Council will aim to give parish and town councils the opportunity to

comment before making a decision which is likely to have a “significant” impact on the local community... f g y g f p y

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O i Open session Proposed future meeting dates:

3 D b 2014 5 t 7 30 3 December 2014 – 5pm to 7.30pm 2015 – dates and times?

General enquiries (if direct contact not known): General enquiries (if direct contact not known):

wendy.may@nwleicestershire.gov.uk 01530 454769