Delivering the Localism Agenda: The Shropshire

Experience 28th Sept 2010

The Shropshire approach to LOCALised planningJake Berriman, Shropshire Council

Rob Hindle, Rural Innovations

The Localism Agenda

• Localism, Localism, Localism

• Transference of power

• Collaborative plan making

• Decentralisation and Localism Bill

• Community Right to Build

Positive Planning

• Planning failing communities • Need for planning which understands local

conditions, influences and aspirations• Connect “top down” with “bottom up”• What does this (PPS1, PPS3) mean here, for

us• Balance tensions between strategic

& local

The Shropshire Experience

• The LDF Journey so far, Dual Preparation• Shared evidence, experience and enterprise• A changing landscape, adaptive learning, listening

and leading• What LOCALised planning means in practice• Next steps and shared learning

The LDF Journey So Far: Duel Preparation

Adoption: End of 2012

Independent Examination: Autumn

2012

Submission: July 2012

Final Plan: January 2012

Preferred Options: Spring 2011

SAMDev

Issues and Options: June 2010

Adoption: March 2011

Submission: July 2010

Independent Examination: Nov 2010

Final Plan: February 2010

Preferred Options: August 2009

Issues and Options: January 2009

Core Strategy

Shared evidence, experience and enterprise

Shared evidence, experience and enterprise

• Enterprise and Growth, Strong market towns and Rebalanced Rural Settlements

• Responding to Climate Change and Enhancing the Environment

• Healthy, Safe and Confident People and Communities

A Changing LandscapeLiving Working Countryside 2008“planning is about the creation of new communities and the expansion of existing ones. A good plan will provide a clear and consistent vision taking Into account not just the buildings, spaces and street plans but also the social and environmental contexts of the Community. A master plan delivers the ‘bigger picture’ perspective of building a meaningfully sustainable community featuring housing, community facilities, transport links, private gardens and community green spaces as well as spaces for businesses.

Ultimately it is about making sure development creates new neighbourhoods that areattractive, vibrant, working communities for the people who live there, which link to andenhance surrounding existing communities.We need to use the tools of master planning, community engagement, and therange of planning powers, to involve the community and be genuinely visionaryand ambitious about what can be achieved, and to deliver it. This is not just about allocating land for development, we need to return to the origins of town and country planning itself.”

Adaptive learning Positive Planning

Adaptive learning Sustainable communities

A Changing Landscape The creation of an Open Source planning system means that local people in each neighbourhood – a term we use to includevillages, towns, estates, wards or other relevant local areas – will be able to specify what kind of development and use ofland they want to see in their area

Adaptive learning Top Down To Bottom up

• 292,800 people• 5 Spatial Zones• 1 county town• 17 market towns/kc• >500 settlements• 36% reside rurally• 0.9 persons per Ha

listening and leading

Shrewsbury

Market Towns

Community Hubs & Clusters

Policy CS5 applies to all Rural areas outside of Shrewsbury, Market Towns and Community Hubs & Clusters.Policy CS4 relates to Hubs & Clusters and allows development which helps communities become more sustainable, meeting their priorities, brings with it identified infrastructure, services and facilities.An “opt in” approach allows Community Hubs & Clusters to bebrought forward by their communities moving from CS5 to CS4.

Shropshire’s Rural Rebalance Approach

Shrewsbury

Rural Rebalance: development for sustainable community benefits

Community Hubs and Clusters emerge from consultation and engagement including use of Rural ToolkitMore Community Hubs and Clusters added as development centres via properly reviewed parish plans

Core Strategy

SAM Dev

Place Plans

Shropshire’s Rural Rebalance Approach

17 Market Towns and Key Centres

Community Options for inclusion at Issues

and Options stage: April – June 2010

SAMDev Process

Named settlement( s)Added as community hub/cluster.

Named settlements added

Development commitments begin to emerge in terms of identifying housing numbers, sites and settlement boundaries

Sustainable Settlement List refined

Informal engagement and feed back during Autumn 2010

Community Options for inclusion at Draft plan

stage: April – July 2011

Community refines previous proposal and seeks to clarify development levels/settlement

boundary issues and site allocations

Informal engagement and feedback Autumn 2011

Rural toolkit community testing tool available throughout

Deposit Plan final opportunity to name settlement and fix numbers prior to adoption

COMMUNITY HUBS AND CLUSTERS IDENTIFIED

Strategic vision, objectives and broad spatial strategy including Rural Rebalance approach

Adopted March 2011

Detailed Policies for decision makers

Identification of Rural Hubs and Clusters and Site Allocations sets ‘opt in’ clause for rural development

Adopted late 2012

Detailed monitoring and delivery of policies and community aspirations.

Addition of Community Hubs and Clusters

Plans drawn up with agreement of Parish Council and in ‘conformity’ with LDF.

Can ‘opt in’ adding to list of rural development centres - Hubs and Clusters

Core Strategy

Site Allocations & Management of Development

Dynamic Place Plans

Parish and TownPlans

18 LOCALised Place Plan, one for each market town and its rural area

From June 2011

Local Plans updated with maps

From late 2012

Local Plans updated, material planning consideration for Council

ongoing

Local Plans updated

ongoing

LOCALised Planning in Shropshire

Core Strateg

y

Local Infrastructure Delivery Plan

Local Implementation

Plan

Local Investment

Plan

Annual Monitoring & Review

Place Plans

Next steps and shared learning

Thanks for Listening

Jake Berriman

Head of Strategy and Policy

Jake.berriman@shropshire.gov.uk

Rob Hindle

Rob.hindle@ruralinnovation.co.uk