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Emerging plans at local and neighbourhood level
Sarah O’Driscoll Service Manager City Planning 22nd April 2014
PAS London
22nd April 2014
Content
• Bristol’s statutory planning context
• How we have been working with our Neighbourhood Forums
• the challenges • the opportunities • Some of the lessons and learning
to date
Bristol – West of England Sub-region
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Bristol’s statutory planning context
Development Plan
Neighbourhood Development Plans
Bristol Local Plan
Core Strategy
Site Allocations & Development Management
Policies
Central Area Plan
National Planning Policy Framework
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Introducing Neighbourhood Planning to Bristol….local governance
Bristol• is entirely ‘un-parished
• has ‘Local Neighbourhood Partnerships’ of 2 to 3 wards
• is short on neighbourhood level governance structures
Implications….• Area and Forum designation
process required
• Too large to be ‘neighbourhoods’
• Weak on experience of neighbourhood elected representation
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Introducing Neighbourhood Planning to Bristol….local governance
Bristol• BUT the LPA has a history of
active working with community groups on neighbourhood planning predating Localism Act
Implications….• Ready experience of
community engagement in:– Character appraisals,
landscape appraisals, ecology assessments
– Commenting on Planning applications and emerging DPDs
– SPD preparation with LPA
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Introducing Neighbourhood Planning to Bristol….Neighbourhood Planning Forums
• Using existing Neighbourhood Planning Network• Identified 3 Front Runner Pilots• Provided training for established conservation area and
planning groups on emerging Act and Regulations• Explored options and alternatives using ‘Choices and
Choosing’• established a cycle of open application for Neighbourhood
planning Area and Neighbourhood Planning Forum designations
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Introducing Neighbourhood Planning to Bristol….Neighbourhood Planning ForumsProvided guidance on process and requirements
• Information leaflet and process sheet• Guidance on how to apply• LPA prioritisation of support• How to set up a constitution• Standards for working together – MoA• How to retain a consultant – outline
for a brief and contract process
Neighbourhood Planning Areas and Forums
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Designations5 Neighbourhood Planning Areas and Forums• July 2012 Lockleaze and Redcliffe Way
• May 2013 Lawrence Weston and
Old Market
• July 2013 Knowle West
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Lockleaze
Site allocation proposal map Issues and options map
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Redcliffe Way
BCAP section Redcliffe illustration
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Old Market Quarter
BCAP allocations Old Market Map
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Old Market Quarter
Community vision for Old Market roundabout
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Lawrence Weston
Site allocation Community allocations
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Lawrence Weston
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Knowle West
Site allocation KW Regeneration Framework
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Timetabling…..NPF
NPF designation date
Aims and ObjectivesConsultation
First Draft NDPConsultation
Revised Draft NDPConsultation
Submission independent examination
Examination Referendumanticipated
Consultants appointed
Lockleaze Voice
30.7.12
April 2012 April/May 2014
August 2014 October / November 2014
LDA Oct 2013
Redcliffe Way
30.7.12 February 2013
September 2014
March 2015 July 2015 September 2015
LDA/mufJan 2013
Old Market Quarter
1.5.13 April 2013 October / November 2013
May / June 2014
July / August 2014
October / November 2014*
January 2015
Consultant policy drafting
Lawrence Weston
1.5.13 Set in Community Plan published Spring 2013
April/May 2014
June / July 2014
August 2014 October / November 2014
January 2015
Planning Aid
Knowle West Area
1.7.13 Set in constitution, derived from work on KW Regeneration Framework
January 2015 June 2015 September 2015
October / November 2015*
January* 2016
Due end of April 2014
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Learning:Challenges – why not faster delivery?
• What has held up the process to date:– for Neighbourhood
Forums
– For LPAs
• Understanding the task• Getting community involvement• Identifying the skills required• Accessing finance• Appointing consultants• energy
• Access to resources• Existing DPD priorities• Existing commitments• Managing finances and legislative
processes
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Learning:Challenges – why not faster delivery?
- Joint LPA and Forum issues:
• No urban area is a ‘clean sheet’
• Ensuring common understanding …..
• History of Council projects and promises
• Existing regeneration projects• Aspirations that go beyond the
NPF remit• Significant Council land
ownership – highways, long leases, Housing Revenue Account
• Conflicting approaches to engagement
• ‘project ‘ownership’ and delivery issues
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Learning:Challenges – why not faster delivery?
• Clarity on plan content
• Ensuring community engagement
• What is a land use plan ‘policy’• What is a space ‘management’
issue• What is ‘policy’ vs ‘design guide’• What is an acceptable allocation• What is a deliverable allocation• Does the community really
understand?• Significant changes to the plan
need another consultation….
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Learning:Challenges - how might it work if…
• There is no extant / up to date statutory Plan
• Where the NDP has got ahead of the Local Plan preparation
• Where Statutory Local Plan in place
• Where the local authority is the major land owner
In each case….• What is the added value
that a Neighbourhood Development Plan can offer
• How can the NPF • contribute to the existing
processes• use the process to their
advantage
• What does the local authority need to accept / initiate
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Learning: Opportunities….
• for flexibility of response – no standard way to prepare a Neighbourhood Development Plan
• for new ways of partnership working with communities
• For greater corporate working with a neighbourhood focus on delivery
• There is – no standard response– no standard approach– no standard solution
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Sustainability Appraisal – what and when
• What– Scoping– Direction – Engagement with statutory
bodies
• When
• Depends on form of Neighbourhood Plan
• Extent of un tested proposals
• Extent of consistency with Local Plan
• Need confirmed content to work with…..
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Basic Conditions – what and when
• What– NPPF compliant– Local Plan strategic policy
general conformity – Statement of consultation
• When
• Early check with LPA on objectives and aspirations
• Contribution to content of Basic Conditions statements from early days
• Active support and engagement with LPA on product…..
• Need confirmed content to work with…..
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Needs
Resources, resources, resources• Funding and finance• Skills base• People• Organisation• Project Management• Enthusiasm• ……. and the right delivery mechanisms
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Conclusions
• Governance structures are an issue
• No urban context is a clean sheet
• It has to be voluntary…!• Flexibility is the key…….• Increasing delivery of
development is the target…..
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Sarah O’Driscoll Service Manager City Planning
[email protected]://www.bristol.gov.uk/page/planning-and-building-regulations/neighbourhood-planning-bristol