Delivering the Localism Agenda: The Shropshire Experience 28 th Sept 2010 The Shropshire approach to LOCALised planning Jake Berriman, Shropshire Council Rob Hindle, Rural Innovations
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
Rob Hindle