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Community Planning and
Local Government Reform
Anne Donaghy
Ballymena Borough Council
Chair of the Community Planning
& Pilots Working Group
NILGA 25th January 2013
Community Planning and
Local Government Reform
• Background
• Where this fits in the overall structure of LGR
• Role of the Community Planning & Pilots
Working Group
• Progress to date
• Future work programme
Role of Working Group and
Progress to Date
• Vision: new Councils will be equipped...to support local
government’s statutory planning, regeneration and
community planning requirements...and have a shared
understanding and strategic approach to their
implementation, application and delivery
• Work to date:
– Review of Community Planning in NI
– Review of Foundation Programme
– Identification of potential pilot projects
Community Planning and
Local Government Reform
Foundation Programme
Suzanne Wylie
Belfast City Council
Chair of the ad hoc group on Community
Planning & Foundation Programme
Foundation Programme
• To ensure the new Councils are prepared for the
introduction of community planning in 2015
• Previously developed by the PDPA in 2009
• Being reviewed and refined
Purpose of the Foundation Programme
To provide a support framework to:
• Ensure a consistent understanding of community planning &
its potential
• Lay the foundations for effective community planning
• Build relationships & capacity within each new council area
• Explore mechanisms and structures for effective
engagement and partnership working
• Identify key issues and learning to inform the development
of statutory guidance at the regional level
• Identify opportunities for aligning community planning with
government policy and delivery of new functions
Key Issues to be addressed by the
Foundation Programme
• Understanding what Community Planning can
achieve
– Being ambitious; what could it look like?
– Examples
• eg ILEX – Derry/Londonderry; Datahub – Newry & Mourne;
Community Planning model – Belfast; Waterside/Glenelly; Omagh
and Fermanagh; Community Hubs – Ballymena.
• A full report on practice being prepared.
– Link to transfer of functions
•
Creating a community plan
– Strategic & Local
•
Governance Structures
– Link to performance
Key Issues to be addressed by the
Foundation Programme
• Membership, duty to participate & partnership
working
– making it real; building trust; resourced
• Engagement
– Council Members; Statutory partners; communities;
CVS; business sector
• Performance Measurement & Accountability
• Information gathering & sharing
– Evidence based
• Links between local and central
Next Steps for Foundation Programme
• Further engagement: CVS & other statutory
partners
• Revised programme to be considered by
Regional Transition Committee
• Programme launched & implemented (Spring
2013)
Questions & Feedback
• Any initial questions?
• Roundtable discussion:
“Will the Foundation Programme prepare new
Councils for the Community Planning duty?”
• Is there anything missing that needs to be in the
programme?
• Are there any elements you think need to be
prioritised?
• How do we avoid being caught up in the detail of
the individual proposed actions and keep our eye
on the big picture?