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Camden Blueprint: neighbourhood planning
Donna Turnbull, Voluntary Action Camden, June 2013.
Beginnings• Voluntary Action Camden (VAC) remit to support local
groups to ‘activate’ new policy developments.
• Localism seminar March 2011.
• Neighbourhood planning captures imagination of participants.
• Regeneration / built environment knowledge and skills. Including community-led planning expertise.
Voluntary sector support
• Relevance of council for voluntary service (CVS) type skills to setting up new projects and partnerships.
• Community development work.
• Enterprise and asset development.
• Networks, relationships, local knowledge.
Basic ingredients • Community / neighbourhood groups with broad constituency
and willingness to share power.
• Community development work, and up to date knowledge of local planning context.
• Building confidence, trust and working relationships to enable the shift from being consulted into leading.
• Keeping doors open: plan boundaries; neighbourhood planning forum; working groups…….
Somers Town• Population of approximately 7,000.
• Social housing, community groups and facilities, big businesses and institutions.
• Lifetimes of living with building development.
• Poor health, no jobs, fear of crime.
• Development sites include Francis Crick Institute behind British Library and High Speed 2 at Euston.
Somers Town neighbourhood
Bloomsbury Village• Neighbourhood of approx. 2000 residents, small businesses, students and
tourists.
• Vast gap between rich and poor, pockets of extreme social exclusion, crime and high levels of fear related to night time economy.
• No dedicated community facilities.
• Overlap with Business Improvement District.
• Big development sites on southern boundary and close proximity to Tottenham Court Road Crossrail.
Museum Street (north)
Museum Street (south)
Where is your Neighbourhood?
First Try Forum?
Planning process
• Events, surveys, workshops, walks, film ……. different ways to get people involved and share ideas.
• Working groups developing ideas into projects.
• Mobilising resources.
• Continually building involvement and consensus.
What have you got and what do you want?
Good, bad and most wanted.
Planning days
Planning context
• Planning Framework: Local Plan Site Allocations ‘bite sized briefings’; seminars; training.
• Working with planning officers leading on Camden’s Place Shaping Plans.
• Camden’s Community Investment Programme.
Bloomsbury pros and cons
• Business and social networks with resources and clout.
• Built environment / other professional skills and knowledge within community.
• Too few ‘leaders’.
• Small neighbourhood area.
Somers Town pros and cons• Civil society organisations, businesses and institutions with range of skills
and knowledge to support multifaceted project.
• Good working relationship with local authority, not just the planning officers.
• Publicising and communicating in community with low levels of internet use, but not having the resources for texting, frequent leafleting, door knocking etc.
• Community politics.
• BIG LOCAL ?!