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Central Saint Martins | Summer School | Day 3 | Controlling the City Refection on Professional Practice | M ARCH: ARCHITECTURE

Planning, Design and Building Places is a peopled business

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Angela Koch of ImaginePlaces 5 July 2016 | 10.30 to 17.00

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Controlling the City

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Our ambition is simple: Enable people from all walks of life to get involved, collaborate and decide together when the look, feel and prosperity of our streets, neighbourhoods, cities and regions is ready for change.

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A frame of mind …for good placemakinG with Stakeholders and other Users Appreciative Inquiry as principle ‘mode of working’ In the 1980s, David Cooperrider, professor at the Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University, developed a new model for organisational development and change which he termed “appreciative inquiry.” Appreciation has to do with both recognition and enhancing value. It is about affirming past and present strengths, assets, and potentials. Inquiry refers to both exploration and discovery. It is about asking questions, study, and learning. THE 4D-Cycle:

1. Discovery The Discovery phase is a diligent and extensive search to understand the “best of what is” and “what has been.”

It begins with a collaborative act of crafting appreciative interview questions and constructing and an appreciative interview guide.

Appreciative interview questions are written as affirmative probes into an organisation’s positive core, in the topic areas selected. They are written to generate stories, to enrich the images and inner dialogue within the organization, and to bring the positive core more fully into focus.

2. Dream

The Dream phase is an energising exploration of “what might be”: a time for people to explore their hopes and dreams for their work, their working relationships, their organisation, and the world at large. It is a time for groups of people to engage in thinking big, and thinking out of the boundaries of what has been in the past.

The intent of the Dream phase is to identify and spread generative, affirmative and hopeful images of the future.

3. Design

The Design phase involves making choices about “what should be” within the organisation or system. It is a conscious re-creation or transformation, through which such things as systems, structures, strategies, processes and images will become more fully aligned with the organisation’s positive past (Discovery) and highest potential (Dream).

4. Destiny

The Destiny phase initiates a series of inspired actions that support ongoing learning and innovation—or “what will be.” The Destiny phase focuses specifically on personal and organisational commitments and paths forward which result in changes in organisational systems, structure, processes or procedures.

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NATIONAL PLANNING POLICY FRAMEWORK & PLANNING PRACTICE GUIDANCE LONDON PLAN POLICIES

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LOCAL PLANNING POLICIES & GUIDANCE

NEIGHBOURHOOD PLANNING POLICIES CONSERVATION AREA DESIGNATION FAUNA AND FLORA PROTECTION (local, national, international)

Context & LICENCES, PERMITS AND REGULATIONS East Village incl.BUILDINGVision REGULATIONS

HIGHWAYS ACT 1980 TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT ACT 2004 & GUIDANCE

National Planning Policy Framework & collaborative working 7. Requiring good design ยง66 Applicants

will be expected to work closely with those directly affected by their proposals to evolve designs that take account of the views of the community. Proposals that can demonstrate this in developing the design of the new development should be looked on more favourably.

Pre-application engagement and front loading

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engagement has significant potential to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the planning application system for all parties. Good quality pre-application discussion enables better coordination between public and private resources and improved outcomes for the community.

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planning authorities have a key role to play in encouraging other parties to take maximum advantage of the pre-application stage. They cannot require that a developer engages with them before submitting a planning application, but they should encourage take-up of any pre-application services they do offer. They should also, where they think this would be beneficial, encourage any applicants who are not already required to do so by law to engage with the local community before submitting their applications.

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Planning Application Process Pre Application Consultation

Application is submitted

21 day consultation period

Officer’s report with a recommendation for approval or refusal

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Environmental Impact Assessments and checks against Development Plan and other considerations

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Section 106 / CIL contribution agreed

Planning committee

…then, after all this, a planning decision is made!

Planning Application Approved‌ What happens afterwards

Detailed / technical design plans

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Construction

On-going community engagement

Occupation of building

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Localism Act 2011 and regulations … England Only!

Localism comes with New Rights for Communities… and rights come with responsibility… https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/2010-to-2015-government-policy-localism/2010-to-2015-government-policy-localism

Community Right to Reclaim Land The Community Right to Reclaim Land helps communities to improve their local area by giving them the right to ask that under-used or unused land owned by public bodies is brought back into beneficial use.

Community Right to Challenge The Community Right to Challenge allows voluntary and community groups, charities, parish councils and local authority staff to bid to run a local authority service where they believe they can do so differently and better. This may be the whole service or part of a service. It came into force on 27 June 2012.

Community Right to Bid for …’Assets of Community Value’ The Community Right to Bid will give community groups the right to prepare and bid to buy community buildings and facilities that are important to them. It came into effect on 21 September 2012.

Neighbourhood planning New neighbourhood planning measures allow communities to shape new development by coming together to prepare neighbourhood plans. They came into force on 6 April 2012.

Community Right to Build (a special Neighbourhood Dev. Order) The Community Right to Build allows local communities to propose small-scale, sitespecific, community-led developments. It came into force on 6 April 2012.

Neighbourhood planning New neighbourhood planning measures allow communities to shape new development by coming together to prepare neighbourhood plans. They came into force on 6 April 2012.

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NEIGHBOURHOOD PLANNING…

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Y|our Neighbourhood Planning Journey Getting started...

01 Getting designated: NPlan Area + Forum

02 Building your local network & team

03 Finding out what matters to people

04 Building and refining your evidence base

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Getting there...

Getting stUck in...

05 Developing a shared Vision, Objectives, Policy & Project Ideas

06 Designing and agreeing your Draft Policies & Projects

07 Working towards more robust & justified policies

09 Consulting on Draft Plan by LA (REG 15)

08 Consulting on Pre-Submission Plan (REG 14)

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10 Independent Examination

11 Referendum

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12 Plan made

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- Max. 5 years from creation of forum and area designation to produce your Neighbourhood Plan - takes about 2 to 3 years - Local People are doing it (NForum or Parish Council Group) - About 15k of grant funding + technical support in the region of 20k (depending on need) via Locality

Getting started...

01 Getting designated: NPlan Area + Forum

Getting stUck in...

02 Building your local network & team

03 Finding out what matters to people

04 Building and refining your evidence base

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06 Designing and agreeing your Draft Policies & Projects

Getting there...

07 Working towards more robust & justified policies

09 Consulting on Draft Plan by LA (REG 15) 08 Consulting on Pre-Submission Plan (REG 14)

10 Independent Examination 11 Referendum

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Response Votes Yes 2,620 (69%) No 1,160 (31%) Turnout 16%

Source: DCLG, 2015

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Consultation Statement When submitting your neighbourhood plan to your local planning authority, the legislation requires you to submit a number of other documents to accompany it. One of these is a “consultation statement�.

You must include the following information in your consultation statement: - details of who was consulted on the proposed neighbourhood plan (including any of the consultation bodies) - an explanation of how they were consulted - a summary of the main issues and concerns raised through consultation - a description of how these issues were considered, and where relevant, addressed in the neighbourhood plan proposal. http://www.ourneighbourhoodplanning.org.uk/storage/resources/documents/ How_to_write_a_consultation_statement.pdf

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Croydon Old Town Masterplan ImaginePlaces for Prince’s Foundation and in partnership with Croydon Council| 2012

Doing|Making| Building| your evidence together ...

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...meeting up for light touch Place Check Walkabouts...

Southbank and Waterloo Neighbourhood Forum: Walkabout with Debate, May 2014 Photo by Angela Koch

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Working in teams‌ Business Engagement & Survey, 2014: Team from Corbett Estate Neighbourhood Forum working with ImaginePlaces

Corbett Neighbourhood Forum Team working with ImaginePlaces, Nov 2014

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Business Engagement & Survey, 2014: Team from Corbett Estate Neighbourhood Forum working with ImaginePlaces

Draw it. Discuss it. Understand it.

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Selected Landscape features and patterns : As illustrated in Figure 2 Bognor Regis comprises of a number of Green Infrastructure Assets such as open spaces, parks, playing fields and beach as well as the Gap between Settlements and Public Right of Ways. The sea and the about 1900 hours of sunshine a year further underpin the importance of outdoor spaces and important role of green infrastructure in the ecological, economic and social fabric of Bognor Regis. Individually and together they form part of the local landscape character. The emerging Local Plan Policy GI SP1 Green Infrastructure and development will provide a level of protection of these spaces by stating the following:

“All major development must be designed to protect and enhance existing Green Infrastructure assets, and the connections between them, in order to ensure a joined up Green Infrastructure Network.� (July 2014) Along the seafront we find a landscape pattern framed by staggered and set back building blocks and linear parks of different scale.

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Figure 2: GreeN Infrastructre ASSEts, Emerging Local Plan, July 2014

seafront urban form/ typical Landscape Patterns

Source: Arun Local Plan, Regulation 19 - Publication Version, 2014

Bognor Regis Neighbourhood Development Plan - Submission Draft

On-line Survey: Q5. What is unique about the Corbett Estate and should be kept/protected?

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ImaginePlaces working in partnership with the Corbett Estate Neighbourhood Forum | 2014 Residents Survey Analysis

ImaginePlaces on behalf of RTPI Planning Aid and in Partnership with East Shoreditch Neighbourhood Forum | 2014 maginePlaces

Video here:

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Grove Park Neighbourhood Forum: Vision Day | ImaginePlaces

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Elephant and Walworth Neighbourhood Plan: Connecting the Neighbourhood workshop, ImaginePlaces in partnership with the emerging Elephant and Walworth Forum | 2014

https://prezi.com/rasdsfvscxqk/ connecting-the-neighbourhoodcommunity-planning-workshop/

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Photo ImaginePlaces | 2014

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Highgate Neighbourhood Plan: Enquiry by Design, Prince’s Foundation working with ImaginePlaces in partnership with Highgate Neighbourhood Forum | 2013 Photo: Angela Koch

Bognor Regis Neighbourhood Plan, Enquiry by Design, Prince’s Foundation: Community Planning workshop, 2012

Map of community assets

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Bognor Regis Neighbourhood Plan: Enquiry by Design Prince’s Foundation Photo ImaginePlaces | 2013

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Highgate Neighbourhood Plan Priorities: Enquiry by Design Prince’s Foundation | 2013 Photo by Angela Koch, ImaginePlaces

In short…

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Kentish Town Neighbourhood Forum/ mobile DIY A-frame Picture by ImaginePlaces 2012, working for Prince’s Foundation

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Kentish Town NF 2012, Street Engagement Prince’s Foundation| ImaginePlaces

GENERAL DEVELOPMENT POLICIES

GENERAL DEVELOPMENT POLICIES

DESIGN POLICIES POLICY D1: THE VIEW OF PARLIAMENT HILL The uninterrupted view towards Parliament Hill from the area adjacent to Kentish Town Station as defined in the “Protected Corridor” and “Peripheral Corridor” identified in Maps 2 and 3, is required to be maintained, as far as possible, for future generations. Development that takes place within the "Peripheral Corridor" must be compatible with the view in terms of its setting, scale and massing.

Reasoned Justification The role of design and its setting, scale and massing will be important considerations and become even more critical with any development that takes place within the "Protected Corridor" and to a lesser although still significant extent within the “Peripheral Corridor” identified on the Plan.

In our street engagements with the public, one of the most commonly mentioned wishes was that this view of Parliament Hill and trees must be protected.

The view is cherished by local people and visitors alike. The space is accessible and makes the environment more inviting. In this very built-up area it is the only chance to get a long green view.

KTNF understands that the view outside the borders

of the KTNF Area cannot be protected by this policy.

Much of the area outside the borders of KTNF is included in Dartmouth Park Neighbourhood Forum’s area.

KTNF has agreed a Memorandum of Understanding with DPNF and DPNF has sent KTNF a letter agreeing in principle with Policy D1 The View of Parliament Hill (see Appendix 4, p.73). We have also discussed the policy with the management of the Murphy Site.

“A view of trees is, along with the availability of natural areas nearby, the strongest factor affecting people’s satisfaction with their neighbourhood.”

Design Council CABE – The Value of Public Space.

Policy D1 conforms to The National Planning Policy Framework: NPPF 73, 74, 109 and Camden policies CS5, CS14, CS15, CS16.

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Development Area. To each side of the main protected corridor, a further 2.5 degrees zone is defined, in which great care and justification must be made for any new development. Policy D1 seeks to manage development within the part of the viewing corridor in the Kentish Town Neighbourhood Area.

to Kentish Town Station towards the crown of Parliament Hill.

From the central line of view, a corridor of 2.5 degrees to either side is to be maintained as far as possible, including the view across the part of the Murphy Site in the Kentish Town Potential

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! Map 3: this is a close up of the protected and peripheral view corridors from the viewpoint adjacent to Kentish Town Station. The Map identifies buildings and their respective boundaries. Policy D1 seeks to manage development within the part of the viewing corridor in the Kentish Town Neighbourhood Area.

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SPATIAL POLICIES

KENTISH TOWN NEIGHBOURHOOD PLAN: SPATIAL POLICIES In addition to the General Development Policies set out in the previous section, the Neighbourhood Forum has identified three overarching Spatial Policies which cover wider and more complex areas than those specified in the Site Specific Policies section or those in the General Development Policies section. The three Spatial Policies lie at the heart of the neighbourhood and are of wider than local significance – the proposed Kentish Town Square (Policy SP1 Phase 1 opposite, linked with Project Kentish Town Square Phase 2, p.65), Kentish Town Potential Development Area (Policy SP2, p.42) and General Development Criteria (Policy SP2a, p.44). The Spatial Policies set out the framework within which proposals should be considered and, together with the Project, seek to ensure a coordinated approach to the multiple strands of action required to realise the potential of the area.

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SPATIAL POLICIES POLICY SP1: KENTISH TOWN SQUARE PHASE 1 – CIL PRIORITY Map 8 KTNF will support proposals for the creation of a new Kentish Town Square to renew and enhance the centre of the neighbourhood through new development, and through public realm and pedestrian improvements to Kentish Town Road. Development proposals will be supported which deliver the following benefits, including by way of CIL funding opportunities and Section 106 contributions where appropriate: a) Create a high quality public square b) Protect the canopy c) Introduce a new entry into refurbished station d) Create access to platforms from Leighton Road e) Enable step free access to the Underground and rail stations (see Policy GA) f) Install lifts onto the station platforms g) Develop a pedestrian link to Frideswide Place h) Extend pavement westwards adopting Car Wash land (see Policy SSP1) i) Include provision for a market This policy will be subject to assessment of viability on proposals coming forward.

Reasoned Justification The policies in the adopted and emerging Camden Local Plan seek to support Kentish Town Centre. This

is complemented through Policies SW2 and SW3 of this Neighbourhood Plan. The London Plan 2015 also identifies Kentish Town Centre as a District Centre of

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SHOPPING & WORKING PROJECT: SHOP FRONTS – CIL PRIORITY KTNF will support the following design principles for shop fronts, in order to improve their appearance: a) Views into the shop are not to be obscured by advertisements or other obstructions applied to the glass of the shop front. b) Security shutters are to be integrated into the shop front, and are to be designed to allow views into the shop front at night.

Reasoned Justification Shop windows obscured by advertisements or security shutters placed outside windows create a discouraging and unfriendly atmosphere in shopping streets.

The project seeks to implement the policies set out in the following documents: Camden’s CS5,

CS7 and CS8; Camden Development Policy DP24 Securing High Quality Design; Camden policy DP30 Shopfronts; Camden Planning Guidance 1 Design; Camden CPG 5 Town Centres, Retail and Employment; Safer Places – The Planning System and Crime Prevention (ODPM April 2004) and Camden Streetscape Design Manual (2005).

OPEN AND FRIENDLY SHOP FRONTS

OBSCURED SHOP FRONTS

! Ruby Violet 118 Fortess Road

! Iceland 301-305 Kentish Town Road

! Blustons 213 Kentish Town Road (listed and now vacant)

! Poundstretcher 224 Kentish Town Road

! Owl Bookshop 207-209 Kentish Town Road

! Sainsbury’s Local 126-132 Fortess Road

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KENTISH TOWN SQUARE PROJECT PHASE 2 – CIL PRIORITY Map A As the redevelopment of the Regis Road and Murphy sites proceed (Policy SP2 Kentish Town Potential Development Area – KTPDA), a significant increase in passenger demand will fall on Kentish Town Station for both rail and underground use. KTPDA will result in the expansion of existing industrial and business activity as well as the development of several thousand new homes next to Kentish Town Station. KTNF expects the redevelopment of these major sites to take advantage of the opportunity to form new road and pedestrian access to a Phase 2 development of an enlarged Town Square, using CIL funding opportunities and Section 106 contributions as appropriate, including the following: 1. Rafting over the rail tracks on both the East and West sides of the existing bridge carrying Kentish Town Road.

2. Providing a new road access to the Regis Road site and realigning the junction with Kentish Town Road and Leighton Road.

3. Building a new rail station at pavement level to provide step free access including direct lift access to all platforms.

4. Providing pedestrian access between Kentish Town Square and Frideswide Place.

5. Providing pedestrian access and a designated cycle

route between Leverton Street and Frideswide Place.

6. Providing a new pedestrianised public open space – an extension of Kentish Town Square to the west side of Kentish Town Road, that will enable new pedestrian access to both the Regis Road and Murphy sites to be formed, as well as improving public realm.

7. Improving access to and views of Hampstead Heath.

8. Improving the interconnection of rail, underground, and bus services all focused on an enlarged Kentish Town Square.

Phase 1 is described on p.39, Policy SP1.

! Map A: Kentish Town Square – Phase 2

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Kentish Town NF 2016| Launch of the Referendums Campaign

THE RESULTS OF THE REFERENDUM ON THE KENTISH TOWN NEIGHBOURHOOD PLAN HELD 9 JUNE 2016

Turnout 13.75% 90.9% voted Yes 8.3% voted No 1888 votes 13 rejected

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Neighbourhood Development Orders (NDO) A Neighbourhood Development Order can grant planning permission for specific types of development in a designated neighbourhood area. Neighbourhood Development Orders are not limited as to the size of land they can cover within the neighbourhood area. It is however not possible to prepare an order for an area where planning permission is already granted.

When you are preparing a Neighbourhood Order you may wish to put conditions or limitations on what can be built on the land that the order applies to. For example you may wish to see affordable housing built but you may want to require that when it comes forward it also includes provision for a community green space, or meet certain design standards. A Neighbourhood Development Order can therefore used to permit: building operations; material changes of use of land and buildings; and/or engineering operations. More information here: >> http://www.rtpi.org.uk/media/1621636/what_is_a_neighbourhood_development_order.pdf Â

NDOs will grant planning permission, therefore removing the need for a planning application to the local planning authority. However, the NDO will have to meet some minimum standards, and be approved by the community, before it can come into force.

Similar stages to Neighbourhood Plan making First, the NDO must be passed to the council, which will check that it has been properly consulted on, and that the development does not need an environmental impact assessment. Then the NDO will be assessed by an independent examiner, who will check that it conforms to national and local planning policies. The independent examiner will also check that the NDO would not damage local heritage assets. If the independent examiner approves the Order, then a local referendum on whether the NDO should be adopted will be held. If more than half of those voting have voted in favour of the NDO, then it will come into force.

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What about Streets and Public Realm?

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June 2015 Authors: Kris Beuret | Social Research Associates Angela Koch | ImaginePlaces Steering Group: Peter Dickinson Phil Jones Peter Jones

Involving the Public and Other Stakeholders

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Chartered Institution of Highways and Transport This guideline forms part of the Streets and Transport in the Urban Environment series.

For a full list of available titles please visit ciht.org.uk/stueation

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Chartered Institution of Highways and Transport This guideline forms part of the Streets and Transport in the Urban Environment series.

For a full list of available titles please visit ciht.org.uk/stueation

Authors: Kris Beuret | Social Research Associates Angela Koch | ImaginePlaces Steering Group: Peter Dickinson Phil Jones Peter Jones

Extract: Developing an Engagement Strategy and Choosing the Right Techniques

Involving the Public and Other Stakeholders

An engagement strategy outlines in brief the reasons, scope, objectives, standards, methods, timetable, programme and ways of reporting findings. It is a document that is best drafted by involving key stakeholders in its development and, importantly, adapted to the available budget and scale of design challenge.

A very useful engagement strategy template a to f), originally developed by Transport for London, is presented below.

It provides a set of guiding questions useful in the development and clarification of the various aspects of an effective consultation and engagement process.

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Extract: Developing an Engagement Strategy and Choosing the Right Techniques a. Context of the engagement process

Involving the Public and Other Stakeholders

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What is the nature of the scheme?

At what stages of the project life cycle are we consulting?

What stakeholder engagement and/or consultations have already taken place?

What other studies and research have been carried out?

What decisions have already been taken? What proposals are being taken forward?

What legal obligations are there to consult? What notifications will be needed?

How would consultation and engagement be proportionate and add value, and what scope will it have to affect decision making?

b. The scope of the engagement process ➡ ➡ ➡ ➡

What What What What

are the anticipated key benefits of the project, and for whom? are the anticipated key disbenefits of the project, and for whom? are the anticipated risks of the project? will need especially careful handling in this scheme?

c. The engagement objectives ➡ ➡ ➡ ➡

What is needed by when with which groups of people in order to gain the information or gather responses from those groups?

What are the top-level questions based on the benefits, disbenefits and risks?

What is outside the scope of this consultation?

d. Who needs to be consulted and how? ➡

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What are the logistics of the consultation methods (advertising, publicity, sampling, sequencing, social media activity and how responses will be recorded and fed back) Which stakeholder group will respond well to what technique, and how will you publicise the responses?

e. Quality standards and controlling costs ➡ ➡ ➡

What are the aims and actions to encourage valid responses and maximise appropriate participation in the consultation process?

Which information needs to be included in consultation communications media?

How will the plan be monitored and performance managed, including costs controlled?

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How will the exercise be recorded and archived?

How will the data be analysed and managed, including checking that these data meet the requirements of the Data Protection Act and other relevant legislation?

How will the decisions and results of the consultation be reported back to stakeholders?

London Borough of Camden Community Infrastructure Levy Charging Schedule Type of Development

Residential below 10 dwellings (or 1000sqm) Residential of 10 or more dwellings (or above 1000sqm) and private care residential homes with a degree of self-containment.

Retail (including bar/restaurant/entertainment and other town centre uses) Office Student Housing Hotel (including tourist hostels) Health, Education, Community meeting spaces, Police, Fire, Water Waste Management and related infrastructure, Care homes with no selfcontainment subsidised by the public sector Industry, warehousing, research and development Other commercial uses

CIL Tariff (pounds per square metre) Zone A Zone B Zone C (central) (Rest of (Highgate , Camden) Hampstead) £500 £500 £500 £150

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What is the Community Infrastructure Levy?

The Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL) is a charge by local authorities to collect funds from new developments.

It will be used to fund facilities including: -

Roads and other transport Schools and other education Medical Sport/recreation and open spaces

The CIL will apply to all proposals which add 100m2 of new floorspace or an extra dwelling.

The amount to pay is the increase in floorspace (m2) multiplied by the rate in the CIL charging schedule. The rate depends on the area and type of development.

In Camden we collect two CILs: the Mayoral CIL and the Camden CIL. https://www.camden.gov.uk/ccm/navigation/environment/planning-and-builtenvironment/community-infrastructure-levy/

Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL) The community infrastructure levy is a new levy that local authorities in England and Wales can choose to charge on new developments in their area. Camden Council’s overview document provides a quick guide to the levy. The levy is designed to be fairer, faster and more transparent than the previous system of agreeing planning obligations between local councils and developers under section 106 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990.

In areas where a community infrastructure levy is in force, land owners and developers must pay the levy to the local council. The charges are set by the local council, based on the size and type of the new development.

The money raised from the community infrastructure levy can be used to support development by funding infrastructure that the council, local community and neighbourhoods want, like new or safer road schemes, park improvements or a new health centre.

The community infrastructure levy: - gives local authorities the freedom to set their own priorities for what the money should be spent on - gives local authorities a predictable funding stream that allows them to plan ahead more effectively - gives developers much more certainty from the start about how much money they will be expected to contribute - makes the system more transparent for local people, as local authorities have to report what they have spent the levy on each year - rewards communities receiving new development through the direct allocation of a proportion (15% or 25% depending on whether a Neighbourhood Plan is adopted) of levy funds collected in their area

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Controlling the City

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WHO’S IN CONTROL?

Constituted community body + Draft Design Codes for St Albans City Centre + MoU with District Council + OPEN Design Charrettes + Letter of Support for final co-designed concept

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Planning Application Process Pre Application Consultation

Application is submitted

21 day consultation period

Officer’s report with a recommendation for approval or refusal

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Environmental Impact Assessments and checks against Development Plan and other considerations

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Section 106 / CIL contribution agreed

Planning committee

…then, after all this, a planning decision is made!

National Planning Policy Framework & collaborative working 7. Requiring good design

Pre-application engagement and front loading

ยง66 Applicants will be expected to work closely with those directly affected by their proposals to evolve designs that take account of the views of the community. Proposals that can demonstrate this in developing the design of the new development should be looked on more favourably. ยง188 Early engagement has significant potential to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the planning application system for all parties. Good quality pre-application discussion enables better coordination between public and private resources and improved outcomes for the community. ยง189 Local planning authorities have a key role to play in encouraging other parties to take maximum advantage of the pre-application stage. They cannot require that a developer engages with them before submitting a planning application, but they should encourage take-up of any pre-application services they do offer. They should also, where they think this would be beneficial, encourage any applicants who are not already required to do so by law to engage with the local community before submitting their applications.

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The applicant shall demonstrate how winter and summer sun, changing wind and weather conditions as well as local top soil conditions have informed the design of the living and working experiences in the building and outdoor amenity.

Translating the prevailing urban grain in the successful parts of the city centre resonates highly with an urban rhythm along new city centre streets that is governed by two principal approaches to plot division: The larger plots (up to 25 m width) provide for courtyard buildings with floorplate configurations for larger ground floor needs of retailers, offices, galleries, workshops and with a mix of uses in the upper floors. Court and yard spaces can take a wide range of arrangement with public and semi-public access to individual premises through street-facing gates. The applicant shall demonstrate continuous active frontages at street level where the building faรงade is street facing. The applicant is expected to demonstrate access arrangements for emergency services or illustrate the location of fire hydrants and wet/dry risers avoiding the need for large vehicle entrances and which can add character.

The smaller plots (5 to 10 m width) for Townhouses and Mews Buildings (TH, THM) provide for a number of configurations suitable for homes and more fine-grain mixed-uses such as professional office uses, studios, independent shops, boutique shops, living-above-the-shop/ workshop and live-work.

B15 Buildings shall be built up to party walls on either side of the plot. Building foundations should be designed to negate the need for any gaps.

The applicant is expected to demonstrate compliance with the above principles, both for block and individual plot development proposals by providing a) figure and ground plan with existing, historic and new buildings blocked out; b) tissue study of the wider area c) and a 3D massing model situated in street and block context.

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Design Charette Part 3 (27 October 2014)

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Planning Application Process Pre Application Consultation

Application is submitted

21 day consultation period

Officer’s report with a recommendation for approval or refusal

Context & East Village Vision

Look! St Albans Letter of support

Application checks for national and local requirements

Environmental Impact Assessments and checks against Development Plan and other considerations

A

Section 106 / CIL contribution agreed

Planning committee

…then, after all this, a planning decision is made!

Detailed Planning Application

A

Controlling the City

Context & East Village Vision

WHO’S IN CONTROL?

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Critical Reflection on ‘Devolved Control’ in the current Planning and Design Processes

Context & …East or whyVillage Localism now?

Vision