Transcript Neighbourhood Planning - Newcastle City Council

Community Right to Build
David Cross
Planning Policy Officer –
Neighbourhood Planning
What is the Community Right to
Build?
• Introduced by the Localism Act 2011:
• Community Right to Build
• Neighbourhood Plans
• Other Community Rights – ‘Bid’ and
‘Challenge’
• An alternative to a Planning Application
What is the Community Right to
Build?
• A new tool for communities to deliver
development in their local area
• Communities will be able to propose:
• Housing including family homes to sell on the
open market, affordable housing etc.
• Community facilities such as a community
centre, children’s playground
• Benefits retained by the Community
• Managed by a ‘Community Organisation’
Community Organisation
• Acts for a Neighbourhood Area or a Particular
Area
• 10 members who live in separate dwellings.
• established for the “express purpose of
furthering the social, economic and
environmental well-being of individuals living, or
wanting to live, in a particular area”
• Other controls on voting rights, winding up etc.
Process
1. Agree Neighbourhood Area and
Community Organisation with Council
2. Prepare scheme (including consultation)
and submit to Council
3. Independent examination
4. Community referendum (simple 50%
majority)
5. Legal adoption of CRTB
Support
• ‘Locality’ appointed by Government to
support Community Organisations
• £17.5 million ‘seed corn’ funding
• Announced on 30 May 2012
• Available until end March 2015
• Administered by Homes and Communities
Agency
Funding
• ‘Seed Corn’ funding covers 4 stages:
1.Body corporate established.
2.Initial proposals developed, project eligibility
tested, outline feasibility study produced.
3.Detailed proposals developed.
4.Valid Community Right to Build Order
proposal submitted.
Experience Elsewhere
Further Information
Locality:
http://mycommunityrights.org.uk/community-right-tobuild/
Homes and Communities Agency:
http://www.homesandcommunities.co.uk/communityright-to-build
Newcastle City Council:
www.newcastle.gov.uk/neighbourhoodplanning