SOLD OUT! Neighbourhood Plans - Looking Beyond Allocating Sites for Housing

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Course Category: Community Planning

course description 

  • Introduction
  • Presentation on place analysis - we will draw upon a case study
  • Workshop - focusing on integrating green infrastructure, local green spaces, views and vistas and non-designated heritage assets into a plan
  • Discussion - policies and made plans, with Examiner tips
  • Q and A

*PLEASE NOTE. If you are part of a mission community involved in the Growing the Rural Church Project, please book the DCT members rate and ensure that you include the name of your parish and mission community when booking.

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aims and objectives

  • An understanding of the wider opportunities for neighbourhood plans to shape places.
  • A better understanding of the benefits that an effective neighbourhood plan can deliver.

about your tutor

Julie Tanner

Jo Widdecombe

Deborah McCann

Julie is a chartered town planner with over 25 years experience in the public sector and is Panel Manager for Creating Excellence. Design support at Creating Excellence has evolved as a customer facing delivery function using collaborative methods, including Design Review and Building for Life 12, working with local authorities, communities and developers. Julie is an expert in her own right in economic development, place making and regeneration. Julie established Design Review arrangements for Tresham Garden Village in East Northants – currently promoted by MHCLG as best practice. She also led the Sid Valley NDP Place Analysis exercise that established the evidence base to secure design policies in the emerging NP.

Jo is a chartered town planner with over fifteen years of planning expertise, having been a Senior Development Management Officer at East Devon District Council and most recently supported in excess of nineteen neighbourhoods towards the goal of producing a draft neighbourhood plan (at least three of which, have passed Examination). For the past 5 years has been employed by Planning Aid England, as a Planning Advisor, focused on delivering planning support to community groups; including amongst other things facilitating community workshops and delivering training sessions on the neighbourhood planning process; latterly, as a freelance private consultant providing plan making support including reviewing plans, drafting policies and acting as critical friend.

Deborah is a Chartered Town Planner and Chartered Surveyor with over 30 years experience of the Public, Private and Voluntary sector primarily working in the South West. She is an NPIERS examiner and has carried out over 30 Neighbourhood Plan Examinations and a number of Hearings. She also uses her experience as an examiner to work with communities to develop their Neighbourhood Plans.

Special Requirements

Please let Support Services know if there is anything that would affect your learning and if there is anything we can do to enable you to fully participate in our courses and we will do our best to accommodate you.

Call Support Services on 01392 248919 or email info@devoncommunities.org.uk

Cancellation Policy

In the event that this course does not reach the minimum required number to proceed we will contact you and offer a credit against the next available course, the option to book an alternative course or a refund.

By proceeding with this booking you are agreeing to this cancellation policy.

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