Shropshire Council –Planning for Neighbourhoods

Jake Berriman

Head of Strategic Delivery

LOCALised planning in Shropshire

Localism, Localism, Localism

Transference of power

Collaborative plan making

Local Plans

Place Plans

Parish and neighbourhood plans

LOCALised planning

Parish and Neighbourhood Plans

Place Plans

SAMDev

Core Strategy

NPPF

Neighbourhood Planning in Shropshire

5 Government Front Runners;

Much Wenlock Town

Oswestry Town and Lydbury North Parish

Kinnerley Parish and in Shrewsbury, Underdale, Monkmoor and Abbey Neighbourhood Forum

BUT…….

Shropshire: Planning 4 Neighbourhoods... Over 90 existing Town and Parish Plans

New opportunities for community Planning in Shropshire

Place Plans give voice to ALL community-led plans

CIL provides financial

backing to community

aspirations

Listening: Community Toolkit Events

Need to improve sustainability – radically in the case of rural areas.

Sustainability (Sustainable Growth) means different things in different places: the toolkit events help identify what is important locally.

Top of the list is usually:• Affordable housing for local people• Jobs & economic development • Community facilities• Transport

How is this achieved?

Leading: Linking development with improving places

Much Wenlock

Issues:Creating a sustainable communityMeeting local housing needsCreating a prosperous local economyProtecting our local environmentImproving community services

Much Wenlock

Thoughts:Opportunity and cultural changesGovernance and momentumScope – the community’s ambitionsHuman Resources – skills, commitment, cooperationProject management disciplinesCommunications including managed public launch Learn from others

Oswestry

Issues:

~ Aligning new work with on-going Town Plan review

~ Establishing new governance arrangements

~ Developing a pragmatic approach linked to LDF

~ Securing professional support

Community Led Plan

Community Planning

CCS

Parish Council

Community

Shropshire Council

Funding

Specialist Support

Volunteer Time

AONB

CommunityVolunteeringActions e.g.litter picks, newsletters etc

Community Actionse.g village hall, shop, pub, playing field

Service Actionse.g. police, highways, GP, library, Broadband

Parish CouncilActions e.g. lobbying, improved communication, accountability

VCS Actionse.g. Extend Classes, GoodNeighbour Scheme

Planning Actionse.g. adoption into Place Plan, hubs/Clusters, Full Neigh-bourhood plan.

Local Businesses

Business Actionse.g. Business Directory,Local website,Broadband,Local Produce

Community led Planning: simple

Local Plan Provides Strategic overviewSpatial plan role for parish/neighbourhood plans

~Shropshire will support Town/Parish Plan reviews as “neighbourhood plan” approach

Council will “adopt” neighbourhood plans as material considerations (informal), AND…

where requested support a hearing and referendum (formal approach)

Development is linked to improved

infrastructure and affordable

housing for local people

Infrastructure and affordable housing helps make places

more sustainable

Communities are more willing to

accept more development

Landowners have more

opportunities to utilise their land

for building

A more positive policy

approach towards

development

Sustainable Growth: Creating a “virtuous circle”.

CIL &

s106Core

Strategy policies Place

Plans

Land supply

Establishingthe Local

DevelopmentFramework

ManagingDevelopment

WorkingAcross

Borders

InvestingLocally

UnderstandingPlaces

SHROPSHIRE PLACE PLANS

TransformingShropshire

Council

A better approach to planningSquaring the circle when the public want

improvement but don’t like change –Shift the discussion to the positive benefits that

development can bring:Not, “Do you want this development?” but, “How can we improve your place?”

Place Plans put communities in the driving seat

Part of the Council’s corporate approach to locality working:• Provides an ongoing process for building a shared vision,

what needs to be done and how it will be achieved.• Identifies community priorities for developer contributions. • Reviewed annually to reflect changing needs and priorities.

Place Plans as a tool for co-ordinating investment

• Sets out infrastructure requirements by settlement • Provides transparency to local communities on

discussions with infrastructure providers• Identifies opportunities for other funding & co-ordination

between agencies

Development & investment go hand-in-hand

CIL receipts: 90% of CIL to be spent on ‘local infrastructure’ – defined as in or close to the settlement in which the development has taken place.

Affordable housing: mix of on-site affordable homes and financial contributions. Financial contributions to be spent in parish within 1 year, or within Place Plan area within 5 years. After 5 years extended to Shropshire-wide.

New Homes Bonus?

Planning for Neighbourhoods:Portfolio Holder Gwilym Butler, says Shropshire is

about:

“Putting local communities in driving seat about development in their patch, giving communities a clear and powerful opportunity to identify needs and opportunities, for instance, helping villages identify whether

they are willing to be hubs or clusters

for development”