NORFOLK PTS
HOW TO PREPARE A NEIGHBOURHOOD PLAN
Time:
7-9.15 pm
You'll be taken step-by-step through the process of preparing a Neighbourhood Plan for your parish. We'll look at the advantages of having a Neighbourhood Plan, the stages for producing a plan, and the time and resource commitment required. This course includes a case study example of a Norfolk village Neighbourhood Plan – what has worked and what hasn’t.
Date:
Thursday, 16 January 2025
Venue:
Held online
Tutor:
David Fowler
Cost:
£52 for subscribers | £65 for non-subscribers
This course is recommended for new and experienced clerks and councillors.
Course content
What is a Neighbourhood Plan? – meeting the basic conditions
The advantages of having a Neighbourhood Plan
Making a decision – time, resource and other commitments
Establishing a Steering Group – membership and terms of reference
Accessing grant funding
Engaging a planning consultant
Working with your District/Borough Council – conforming with local planning policy
Addressing key issues – housing need, environment and transport
Gathering key data
Community engagement
Drafting planning policies
The examination process – referendum and adoption
By the end of the session you will feel more confident about the steps involved in the Neighbourhood Planning process.
The tutor, David Fowler, is a recently retired local government Assistant Director of Planning with over 30 years of working in this field. He is now a parish councillor in Norfolk.
Training the whole council
This course can be delivered and tailored specially for your council, which can be a cost-effective approach if you have a number of councillors who require this training. You choose where and when you want our tutor to deliver.
Notes:
We'll send you a link via email a day or two before the session is due to be held, so you can just click on the link to join in. You'll need a laptop, tablet or smartphone with a camera; if you haven't tried this technology before that's fine - we'll happily conduct a quick test session with you the day before if you like.
Recent feedback from our Understanding Planning courses also delivered by David:
Surprisingly good! In that I felt that this was a rather dry subject and it would be difficult to keep our attention. And yet that was more than achieved as, I believe, the training was relevant, useful and informative.
Excellent, I certainly learnt a lot during the evening and it was a nice relaxed atmosphere.
Very professional and very relevant and useful.
For me it was spot on.
As always with Norfolk PTS, a very well planned and presented session.
I’m really pleased with how it went and I’m confident my councillors (and I) will be a lot more focused and structured with planning comments now.
Excellent: Informative, objective and delivered by knowledgeable presenters.
A brilliant and very useful course, will definitely be using some of the information given to help advise the Cllrs on how to comment on planning applications. I really appreciated how it was balanced for Clerks and Councillors.
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