An stroll through the old &

emerging new Planning World

Testing a different kind of training module

Client: Clear Village Date: 31 March 2011

Concept&Delivery: Angela Koch (ImaginePlaces)

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Story 01: Breakfast Briefing at TCPA Localism: What does it mean for the planning and property sector?

Where:

TCPA Offices, London, 17 Carlton House Terrace, London, SW1Y 5AS

When:

07:30 buffet breakfast

08:00 Opening remarks by the Chair and presentations from the panel

08:45 Q and A followed by conclusions

09:15 Networking opportunity

09:45 End of event

Martin Edwards, Barrister, 39 Essex Street/ Hugh Roberts, Director of Planning & Design, Colin Buchanan/ David Waterhouse, Head of Local

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11:30 -13:00:

Story 2:The Old Planning World

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The functioning of the Planning system depends heavily on money and property markets. The drying up of cheap

investment money incl. mortgages is the chief

reason whyplans are not coming to

fruition currently.

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The tale of the flowering tree that wasn’t loved by the bees.

a) A tale of kingdoms, rulers, laws, broken promises and mantras.

b) The rise of the regions, top-down planning, urban design excellence, evidence based planning, consultation & bold projects.

c) The stars that led the way.

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13:00-14:15 A great Lunch!

14:15-15:15:

Story 3: The emerging New Planning World

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The tale of a tree that got told that it can grow juicy fruits from its leaves a) The death of the regional

spatial strategies and the rise of Localism: New kingdoms, new rulers, laws, promises and mantras

b) The rise of the Parish Council and its leafy subjects... that been told by the King that they’ll become citizens.

c) The new bright stars in the shire. > citizens

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Story 4: Looking into the crystal ball - The Future! A Rough Guide to Neighbourhood Planning & Improving: Introduction

(Collaboration ImaginePlaces/Clear Village/Colin Buchanan)

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Good place-making was always about places and people. Now there is an opportunity to take stock of best practice and use the emerging Localism legislation to mainstream it.

We believe that many challenges in PLANNING for and DELIVERING better places in our towns and villages can be resolved, if we focus what works already instead of what doesn’t. It’s the move from fixing problems to enabling solutions. This approach puts collaboration, learning, innovation, and importantly, people at centre-stage, as they are the change makers.

Neighbourhood Development Plans (NPlans) & Orders (NOrders) provide here an interesting opportunity to bring about a new balance between people, places and policy makers.

The biggest change in local governance lies possibly in the opportunity of direct collaboration between landowners and residents to plan and deliver better homes, more jobs and needed amenities.

In that sense, we consider, new partnerships forged between residents, local organisations, business and investors are as important, if not more important an adopted NPlans or NOrders.

We have put this Rough Guide 2011 together to support this more collaborative process with ideas, tools and some thoughts on WHY people might want to get involved, WHAT all the new terms mean and HOW one could go about building up local partnerships on a shoestring.

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What is it?

We see this NPlanning & Improving process as going on a journey with many other people that collectively have agreed on being relaxed about the final destination of the journey. While individuals are after an enjoyable and rewarding experience, they also have their own particular interests that they expect to see addressed, at least partly.

We suggest for this journey at least 6 different travel modes. They are DISCOVERY, DREAM, DESIGN, DELIVER, CHECK and CONSIDER. And as for every good journey to unknown territory, there are a couple of RULES of thumb on how to make it en enjoyable journey, many curious QUESTIONS, tough CHALLENGES and ample TRAVELTIPS in this rough guide. We are cutely aware of the fact that sometimes the best stories are written by those working outside the guide book suggestions, however we though it might not harm to share our ideas with you. For good measure we ‘ve also added some of our favourite web links into the mix. You might find them inspiring, challenging and surprising.

What this Rough Guide doesn’t do?

Every design and planning ‘journey’ is uniquely shaped by the people involved, the place it starts from and importantly by its desired destinations. Therefore, this rough guide can’t provide detailed directions on what is right or best for your journey but it does offer some stories and provides a couple of thoughts and tools that might be useful and inspire you to try something different.

Bottom-line is we believe planning for and improving of an area isn’t rocket science.

We’d like to leave you with a quote from Economics Foundation’s Manifesto for Co-Production which very much shaped the spirit and content of this first unfinished version of the Rough Guide.

“The fact that social needs continue to rise is not due to a failure to consult or conduct opinion research. It is due to a failure to ask people for their help and to use the skills they have. This is the forgotten engine of change that makes the difference between systems working and failing.”

A Rough Guide to Neighbourhood Planning & Improving: Introduction, part 2

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> Fin ... for today!

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