Delivering the Localism

Agenda: The Shropshire

Experience 28 Sept 2010
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The Shropshire approach to LOCALised planning

Jake Berriman, Shropshire Council
Rob Hindle, Rural Innovations
 The Localism Agenda

• Localism, Localism, Localism

• Transference of power
• Collaborative plan making
• Decentralisation and Localism Bill
• Community Right to Build
 Positive Planning
• Planning failing communities
• Need for planning which understands local
conditions, influences and aspirations
• Connect “top down” with “bottom up”
• What does this (PPS1, PPS3) mean here, for us
• Balance tensions between strategic
& local
 The Shropshire Experience
• The LDF Journey so far, Dual Preparation
• Shared evidence, experience and enterprise
• A changing landscape, adaptive learning, listening and leading
• What LOCALised planning means in practice
• Next steps and shared learning
 The LDF Journey So Far: Duel Preparation
Core SAMDev
Strategy

Adoption: March 2011 Adoption: End of 2012

Independent Independent
Examination: Nov 2010 Examination: Autumn
2012
Submission: July 2010 Submission: July 2012

Final Plan: February 2010 Final Plan: January

2012

Preferred Options: August Preferred Options:

2009 Spring 2011

Issues and Options: Issues and Options:

January 2009 June 2010
Shared evidence, experience and enterprise
Shared evidence, experience and enterprise
• Enterprise and Growth,
Strong market towns and
Rebalanced Rural
Settlements
• Responding to Climate
Change and Enhancing the
Environment
• Healthy, Safe and Confident
People and Communities
 A Changing Landscape
Living Working Countryside 2008
“planning is about the creation of new communities and the
expansion of existing ones.
A good plan will provide a clear and consistent vision taking
Into account not just the buildings, spaces and street plans but
also the social and environmental contexts of the Community.
A master plan delivers the ‘bigger picture’ perspective of
building a meaningfully sustainable community featuring
housing, community facilities, transport links, private gardens
and community green spaces as well as spaces for businesses.

Ultimately it is about making sure development creates new neighbourhoods that are
attractive, vibrant, working communities for the people who live there, which link to and
enhance surrounding existing communities.
We need to use the tools of master planning, community engagement, and the
range of planning powers, to involve the community and be genuinely visionary
and ambitious about what can be achieved, and to deliver it.
This is not just about allocating land for development,
we need to return to the origins of town and
country planning itself.”
Adaptive learning Positive Planning
Adaptive learning Sustainable communities
A Changing Landscape
The creation of an Open
Source planning system
means that local people
in each neighbourhood –
a term we use to include
villages, towns, estates,
wards or other relevant
local areas – will be able
to specify what kind of
development and use of
land they want to see in
their area
Adaptive learning Top Down To Bottom up
• 292,800 people
• 5 Spatial Zones
• 1 county town
• 17 market towns/kc
• >500 settlements
• 36% reside rurally
• 0.9 persons per Ha
listening and leading
 Shropshire’s Rural Rebalance Approach

Shrewsbury

Market Towns

Community
Hubs & Clusters

Policy CS5 applies to all Rural areas outside of Shrewsbury, Market Towns and
Community Hubs & Clusters.
Policy CS4 relates to Hubs & Clusters and allows development which helps communities
become more sustainable, meeting their priorities, brings with it identified
infrastructure, services and facilities.
An “opt in” approach allows Community Hubs & Clusters to be
brought forward by their communities moving from
CS5 to CS4.
 Shropshire’s Rural Rebalance Approach

Shrewsbury Core Strategy

17 Market Towns and Key

Centres SAM Dev

Rural Rebalance: development Community Hubs and Clusters

for sustainable community
benefits
emerge from consultation and
engagement including use of Rural Place Plans
Toolkit
More Community Hubs and Clusters
added as development centres via
properly reviewed parish plans
 COMMUNITY HUBS AND CLUSTERS IDENTIFIED

Community Options SAMDev Process

for inclusion at Issues
and Options stage: April
Named settlement( s)
– June 2010
Added as community hub/cluster.

Informal engagement and

feed back during Autumn 2010

Community Options for Named settlements added

inclusion at Draft plan
Rural toolkit community testing to
stage: April – July 2011

Community refines previous

proposal and seeks to clarify
Development commitments begin
development levels/settlement
boundary issues and site to emerge in terms of identifying
allocations housing numbers, sites and
settlement boundaries
Informal engagement and
feedback Autumn 2011

Deposit Plan final opportunity Sustainable Settlement List refined

to name settlement and fix
numbers prior to adoption
 LOCALised Planning in Shropshire

Core Site Allocations & Dynamic Place Parish and Town

Strategy Management of Plans Plans
Development

Strategic vision, Detailed Policies for Detailed monitoring Plans drawn up

objectives and decision makers and delivery of with agreement of
broad spatial policies and Parish Council and
strategy including Identification of community in ‘conformity’ with
Rural Rebalance Rural Hubs and aspirations. LDF.
approach Clusters and Site
Allocations sets ‘opt Addition of Can ‘opt in’ adding
Adopted March in’ clause for rural Community Hubs to list of rural
2011 development and Clusters development
centres - Hubs and
Adopted late 2012 Clusters

18 LOCALised Place Local Plans updated Local Plans

Plan, one for each with maps updated, material Local Plans
market town and its planning updated
rural area consideration for
From late 2012 Council
From June 2011 ongoing
ongoing
 Core
Strateg
y
Place Plans

Annual Monitoring & Review

Local Local
Investment Implementation
Plan Plan

Local
Infrastructure
Delivery Plan
Next steps and shared learning
 Thanks for Listening
Jake Berriman
Head of Strategy and Policy
Jake.berriman@shropshire.gov.uk
Rob Hindle
Rob.hindle@ruralinnovation.co.uk