Delivering the Plan
& Sustaining Communities through
Assets and Enterprise
Andy Perkin & Peter Jones
Development Officers
Locality
Delivering the Plan
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Delivering the Plan
Influencing planning decisions
• more say in what development happens
where
• encouraging appropriate development and
discouraging inappropriate development
• using Section 106 Agreements
• using the Community Infrastructure Levy
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ring-fenced for Neighbourhood Plan areas
Funded projects
• Government national programmes
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Regional Growth Fund through LEPs
• Lottery funds
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Big, Heritage, Arts, Sports
• European funding
• Private funding
Local authorities and other public services
• management of parks and public realm
• management of public buildings
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schools
libraries
leisure and community centres
sports facilities
markets
heath and social care facilities
• Community Right to Bid and Challenge
Partnerships and collaboration
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housing associations and housing trusts
community development trusts
building preservation trusts
other not-for-profit and community
organisations
local authorities
health and social care bodies
private developers
local firms
local institutions
universities and educational institutions
Delivery vehicles
• formal or informal partnerships
• housing trusts or cooperatives
• community or social enterprises
• building preservation trusts
• community development trusts
NEF’s leaky bucket
© New Economics Foundation
Delivery vehicles
Locality
Locality is the leading nationwide network of settlements,
development trusts, social action centres and community
enterprises.
Locality was formed through the merger of bassac and the
Development Trusts Association, two leading networks of
community owned and led organisations.
Locality members
£643m
community
assets
Fabulous Beasts!
… business start ups, managed workspace, recycling,
environmental improvements, management of public space,
micro credit, advice and debt counselling, welfare advice,
energy efficiency advice, family support, child care
services, community grants schemes, affordable housing,
volunteering, job training, supplementary education, youth
work, community safety, transport schemes, festivals and
arts activities, sports and leisure, community cafes and
restaurants, food markets, healthy living schemes…. and
much, much more.
Locality Members
grant funding
assets
enterprise
Enterprise
sales / retail
Butchers shop
– Mull and Iona
Development Trust
Craft sales web site
– Moseley Community
Development Trust
Garden furniture
- Colebridge Trust
Enterprise
services
Distribution
- Colebridge Trust
Gardening
- Old Hall People’s
Partnership
Training
- Burslem School of Art
Social Enterprise
social
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environmental
economic
Social Enterprise
social
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environmental
economic
The Right Balance
A little help?
Funding reliant
Collapse
Building running costs: £10,000 p.a.
Gross Sq Ft: 2000 sq ft
Running cost per gross sq ft: £5 sq ft
Net Sq ft: 1300 sq ft
Running cost per net sq ft: £7.69 sq ft
And then generate a surplus….!!
Sweating the Asset!
Asset development
Types of assets…..
Managed workspace, industrial buildings, visitor
centres, marina, sports facilities, training
facilities, shops, cafes, cinema, housing, green
space, car parks, community centres, live/work
space, health centres, nursery, transport
(buses), wind farms, arts centres….
…and an abattoir!
Mull and Iona Community Trust
Local distinctiveness
Ledbury and Area Development Trust
Public realm improvements
Stourport Forward
Using the public realm
Burslem Community Development Trust
Assets
All Saints Action Network (ASAN)
Transport infrastructure
All Saints Action Network (ASAN)
Community transport
Goodwin Development Trust
Supporting high streets
Planning gain
South Wye Development Trust
Scaling up
Witton Lodge Community Association
Scaling up
Coin Street Community Builders
St Eval, Cornwall
St Eval, Cornwall – MOD Land for Sale
St Eval, Cornwall
St Eval, Cornwall – Assets of Community Value
Exercise
• What opportunities are there for
community ownership in your
neighbourhood?
• How could NP be used to help this to
happen?
meanwhile.org.uk
atu.org.uk
mycommunityrights.org.uk
www.locality.org.uk
0845 458 8336
andy.perkin@locality.org.uk
peter.jones@locality.org.uk