Neighbourhood Planning
The Localism Act (2011) and the Neighbourhood
Planning Regulations deliver the Coalition Government’s
commitment to create the ‘Big Society’ and neighbourhood
planning. We have produced a diagram that shows the roles
of the Neighbourhood Forum and the Council in the
neighbourhood planning process:
The Council has already made progress with a number of
initiatives that will help to deliver localism and neighbourhood
planning in the borough.
Core Strategy
The Council's Core Strategy has
defined a number of ‘places’ within the borough: our main town
centres, strategic sites and areas of change. For each of these
places we conducted urban design analysis to understand the issues
and opportunities and set the scene for workshops to discuss the
ideas of local residents and the local business community. This
approach means that the Core Strategy ‘places’ chapters are a set
of 18 mini neighbourhood plans that we can now build upon.
Neighbourhood Planning Team
The Council has set up a
Neighbourhood Planning team which is taking forward area-based
planning in the borough. Currently they are working on
Earl’s Court SPD, Kensal SPD and the campaign for a Crossrail
station on the site, reviewing our Conservation Area Proposal
Statements and Town Centre Initiatives.
We have two Neighbourhood Planning
Projects that each have £20,000 funding from CLG.
‘Modern living and protecting
heritage assets: seeking reconciliation’ is being produced with the
Markham Square Association and the Chelsea Society.The aim of the
study is to examine how high impact development can be designed and
implemented in ways that reconcile the desire to carry out major
alterations with a) the enhancement of heritage assets and b) the
avoidance of unreasonable or disproportionate disruption to the
lives of residents nearby. The output of this study could be a
Neighbourhood Plan but it may be the identification of best
practice that can be applied more widely.
The Norland Conservation Society has
undertaken a considerable amount of work to revise the Norland
Conservation Area Proposal Statement, originally prepared in 1981,
and we are taking this forward as a Neighbourhood
Plan.
The Norland Conservation Society has applied to the Council to
be designated as a neighbourhood forum and to designate a
neighbourhood area. The Council will be consulting residents and
other interested stakeholders on these applications until Tuesday
22 May. For more information please see Norland's application for designation.
You can contact the Neighbourhood Planning team via neighbourhood.planning@rbkc.gov.uk
Page updated on the 01 May 2012.