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Neighbourhood Planning – The New Landscape
Andrew LynchDepartment for Communities and
Local Government
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Content
• Understanding the new powers– Neighbourhood plans, neighbourhood
development orders, community right to build
• Opportunities for communities– How the new powers can be used, what are the
advantages over traditional routes
• The role for housing providers– Examples from front runners
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Neighbourhood plans
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Neighbourhood plans – the basics
• Communities can establish local planning policies for the development and use of land in a neighbourhood.
• They will be able to say, for example, where new homes and offices should be built, and what they should look like.
• Becomes part of the development plan for the area, giving real weight to local views.
• Aligned with strategic elements of local plan
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Neighbourhood Development Orders
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Neighbourhood development orders – the basics
• NDOs can grant planning consent and remove the need to apply for planning permission for development that is consistent with the order.
• Allows new homes and offices to be built without the developers having to apply for separate planning permission.
• Could also permit houses to be extended in a neighbourhood or allow changes of use beyond those permitted by the use classes order without the need to apply for planning consent.
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Community Right to Build
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Community Right to Build – the basics
• Another means of obtaining planning permission
• Intended for smaller-scale, site specific schemes.
• Subset of neighbourhood development orders - can allow for development on the green belt in certain circumstances, and provide for enfranchisement rights to be disapplied on housing schemes, ensuring housing remains affordable in perpetuity.
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Process (Engagement runs throughout)
Define the neighbourhood
Prepare the Plan / Order
Submit Plan / Order to LPA
Independent Examination
Referendum
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What’s in it for communities?
• Take control of their areas - planning is something they do, not have done to them
• Makes areas more accepting of growth – some frontrunners are taking higher levels of growth than under the previous top-down system.
• If an area is designated for growth, can’t use Neighbourhood planning to prevent or block that – but can influence design / mix / etc.
• Govt support – advice and funding assistance
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The role for housing providers
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The role for housing providers
• Housing providers have several potentially influential roles:– As important community organisations– As investors– As landlords
• Providers are experienced in engaging / supporting communities
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Conclusion
• Remember these are rights, not requirements – communities have the choice to use them
• As with all new processes, there is space to share experience, good practice
• Housing providers can be well placed to fulfil this role to the benefit of communities and themselves
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Contacts / Information
• Andrew Lynch – 0303 444 3594• [email protected]• Locality support hub• http://mycommunityrights.org.uk/community-ri
ght-to-build/• HCA fund• http://www.homesandcommunities.co.uk/com
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