Overview of Chapel Vision
• Alan Gamble. Member of Steering Group and
leader of Infrastructure Working Group
• Angela Milne. Member of Steering Group and
member of Housing and Countryside groups
What is Chapel vision
• Group of resident who want to involve as many of the
local residents as possible to plan and develop
improvements for our area
• Supported by High Peak Borough Council (HPBC) and
Chapel-en-le-frith Parish Council but independent from
it
• Investigate & identify support for community led plan
• Identify ways of involving the whole community &
gather views from local groups /organisations
• Identify priorities and timescales for local action in the
action plan and potential sources of funding
Formation of Chapel Vision
• Formed following 5 community events in Chapel
Parish with facilitator from Rural Action
Derbyshire
• Volunteers for steering group and working groups
requested at meeting
• Exercises captured key community concerns
• No formal record of output - would have been
nice
• E-mail addresses of attendees needed to be put
on formal database
Current status
• Formal structure with memorandum of understanding with
HPBC
• Steering group
• Working groups include housing, countryside, infrastructure
and transport
• Website available for information & communication
• Budget of £20,000 (£8000 for referendum)
• Questionnaire distributed to all residents with prepaid reply
envelope
• Transcription of the 900+ questionnaire responses in progress
• Some WGs have begun to draft the test for their section of the
Neighbourhood Plan
3 Way working CV /PC/HPBC
• HPBC provided officers support to provide
advice e.g. sustainability report requirements,
housing needs, identified brown field sites.
• HPBC requirements for a robust
neighbourhood plan defined
• PC has provided support via town clerk and
council members
• Channels of communications agreed avoid
bureaucracy but maintain efficiency
Things that worked well
• Regular meetings of the Steering Committee, and good
communication between meetings
• Use of local experts (e.g. lawyer)
• Involving local expert organisations (e.g. DWT, DCC, etc)
• Obtaining relevant documented examples: PC, HPBC &DCC
• Splitting work into subgroups
• Surveying local opinion through a questionnaire
• Obtaining list of interested residents with their interest
area
• The involvement of PCs on each subgroup
Challenges & how we overcame them
Challenge
Solution
Getting to as many residents as possible
Multi-location events
Trying to ensure that all communities felt
part of CV
Try to use examples from each area.
Try to involve volunteers from each area
Processing the huge number of returned
survey sheets
Paid data input person
Spread sheet pre-programmed
Ensuring all working groups are mutually
inclusive
Regular SG meetings; monthly reports
from WG’s, group leader dialogue
Challenges & how we overcame them
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Challenge
Solution
Understanding what is a neighbourhood
plan
Use parish plans, village design
statements, concept statements,
community lead planning toolkit,
neighbourhood planning guidance
Understanding the legal framework
requirements
Memorandum of understanding
Declaration of members interests
Understanding where your community fits Draft core strategy & timescales
into the new planning process
Local development framework
Ensuring the views of the community are
represented
Easy to represent the views of subgroup
Questionnaire returns & evidence of
response
Things we could have done better
• Involve local council (HPBC) earlier
• Get a robust questionnaire- everything covered
• Be less influenced buy unreal timescales that
continually shifted
• Set realistic and clear targets for subgroups
• Start early to think of key issues in the
community
• Get sub- group leaders to meet and go over key
issues per group
Next steps
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Analysis of all the survey data
Merging the outputs of the different groups
Documenting the neighbourhood plan
The referendum
Using the Neighbourhood Plan to generate /
support projects and initiatives in our parish