Neighbourhood Planning Review: What it’s achieving and how
This full day seminar looked at neighbourhood planning in both urban and rural locations, the ways in which local ideas are being captured in policy, and processes to draw in a wider range of residents. The speakers looked at the range of support available to communities from Locality and specialist advisors, how to embark upon a neighbourhood planning process and review it after 5 years, as well as noteworthy and innovative policies that examiners judged met basic conditions. While the statutory planning context sometimes shifts around neighbourhood plans, the presentations and discussions addressed innovative ways of embedding local knowledge and commitment to places into the plan-making process.
Programme
Neighbourhood Planning Review – John Wilkinson, Locality
Learning from a ‘front-runner’ Neighbourhood Plan – Dr Geoff Botting, Woodcote Parish Council
The Challenges for Neighbourhood Plans: External Pressures – Andy Yuille, Lancaster University
Lessons from supporting communities and examining Neighbourhood Plans – Liz Beth, examiner
How examiners work and pioneering policies in Submission Draft Neighbourhood Plans – Jill Kingaby, Intelligent Plans
Innovative Neighbourhood Planning approaches and policies – Gary Kirk, Your Locale
Effective Policies for the Historic Environment – Rob Lloyd Sweet, Historic England
Neighbourhood Planning with communities – Jon Herbert, Troy Planning + Design
Case studies from Lincolnshire – Ian Read, University of York