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 communityled plans
CIL provides financial
backing to community
aspirations
Listening: Community Toolkit Events
Leading: Linking development with
improving places
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?
Much Wenlock
Issues:
Creating a sustainable community
Meeting local housing needs
Creating a prosperous local economy
Protecting our local environment
Improving community services
Much Wenlock
Thoughts:
Opportunity and cultural changes
Governance and momentum
Scope – the community’s ambitions
Human Resources – skills, commitment, cooperation
Project management disciplines
Communications 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 Planning
Community
Volunteering
Actions
e.g.litter picks,
newsletters etc
CCS
Community
Service Actions
e.g. police,
highways, GP, Business Actions
library, Broadband
e.g. Business
Directory,
Local website,
Broadband,
Local Produce
Volunteer
Time
Funding
Parish
Council
Shropshire
Council
AONB
Community
Community Actions
VCS Actions
e.g village hall,
e.g. Extend
Led Plan
shop, pub,
Classes, Good
playing
Neighbour Scheme Specialist
field
Support
Parish Council
Planning Actions
Actions e.g. lobbying, e.g. adoption into
improved
Place Plan, hubs/
communication,
Clusters, Full Neighaccountability
bourhood plan.
Local Businesses
Community led Planning: simple
Local Plan Provides Strategic overview
Spatial 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)
Sustainable Growth: Creating a
“virtuous circle”.
Core
Strategy
policies
A more
positive policy
approach
towards
development
Development is
linked to
improved
infrastructure
and affordable
housing for
local people
Landowners
have more
opportunities to
utilise their land
for building
CIL
&
s106
Land
supply
Infrastructure
and affordable
housing helps
make places
more
sustainable
Communities
are more
willing to
accept more
development
Place
Plans
Understanding
Places
Establishing
the Local
Development
Framework
Investing
Locally
SHROPSHIRE PLACE PLANS
Working
Across
Borders
Managing
Development
Transforming
Shropshire
Council
A better approach to planning
Squaring 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”