Neighbourhood Planning Engagement
Training
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This training is run by Angela of ImaginePlaces with supported of: + Maggy Meade-King, Chair Highgate Neighbourhood Forum + Vanessa Gregory, Community Project Manager
LOOK!ST ALBANS
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+ John Romansiki, Senior Neighbourhood Planning Advisor
+ Michael Kohn, CEO StickyWorld
+ Examiner (tbc)
EARLY BIRD available until 4 October!!! Date: 28/10/13 and 29/10/13; 5.30pm to 9.30pm Where: Strategy Lab at Hub Westminster, London Register: Email or phone Angela / use booking form Angela@ImaginePlaces.co.uk / 0790 4310053 The full programme is also available here www.scribd.com/doc/170110954/DIY-Neighbourhood-Planning-En gagement-Training-Programme PLEASE GET WORD OUT. THANK YOU! #DIYNPlanningEngagement
Contents What you can expect from this training Programme & how to book Info on your training lead Recent projects Testimonials
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Neighbourhood Planning Engagement
Training
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What you can expect from this training: + Two consecutive evenings of hands-on training at a central London venue. + You’ll hear from inspiring people and Nplanning processes first hand and how they do things with less money and well. + Learn how to produce an effective Engagement Strategy; putting local people right at the heart of your Neighbourhood Plan making process. + Produce your own or up-date your existing programme during session 2 of this intensive + Good conversations; focused on practical lessons from NPlanning engagement processes and engagement tools with Maggy Meade-King (Chair, Highgate Neighbour hood Forum), Vanessa Gregory (Project manager Look! St Albans) + John Romansiki (Senior Neighbourhood Planning Advisor, PlanningAid England)+ Michael Kohn (CEO, StickyWorld)+(tbc) + Practical guidance, templates and hands-on advice on how to choose nimble and convergent engagement methods and calculate resource requirements. Please find more information overleaf and do get in touch if you have questions regarding the training and indeed if you want to join us on the 28 and 29 October. I look forward to speaking with you.
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Angela, Director ImaginePlaces
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Neighbourhood Planning Engagement
Training
WHEN? 28th and 29th October 2013 5.30pm to 9.30pm, both days
WHERE? The Hub Westminster ‘Strategy Lab’ 1st floor New Zealand House 80 Haymarket London SW1Y 4TE, UK
WHAT WE WILL DO? Session 1 + Share hands-on advice and insights on ‘How to develop and deliver your NPlan Engagement Programme and achieve exceptional results on a shoestring budget’ + Discuss process and dialogue tools with people that doing (just) that + Practical guidance on how to design your Engagement Programme & Consultation Statement + Build a structure for Engagement Strategies,Programmes and Stakeholder matrix Session 2 + Make your own Engagement Strategy and Programme assisted by provided templates + Learn from other Neighbourhood Planners + Get feedback from Angela on your draft Strategy and Programme
WHAT TO TAKE HOME? Your own Draft Engagement Strategy & Programme on about 6 A3 sheets that you then can take back to your Neighbourhood Planning team for tweaking and sign off
People doing Neighbourhood Planning from emerging as well as more mature Forums and Parish Councils; Advisors and Local Authority officers
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Neighbourhood Planning Engagement
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WHAT TO BRING? A contact list of your forum members/ steering group, key stakeholders and an A3 map of your area. Bring your project plan and examples of your engagement material and tools that worked for you so far.
COURSE FEE £229 per participant (incl. VAT) for both sessions + Engagement Strategy and programme templates, checklist, other workshop material, paper & pens. A light supper and beverages are included. Book by 4 October‘13 and pay £30 less. If two participants from one group are interested in taking part together or you can only join us for Session 1 please get in touch regarding course fees. Many thanks!
COURSE SIZE
A maximum of 30 participants.
Interested? Do get in touch. We look forward sharing our experience and supporting you in developing your own Engagement strategy for a great Neighbourhood Plan!
BOOK YOUR PLACE using the BOOKING FORM and SEND it to: Angela Koch angela@imagineplaces.co.uk or
66 Bartholomew Road London, NW5 2AL
Thank you.
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phone: 0790 4310053 www.imagineplaces.co.uk
Neighbourhood Planning Engagement
Training
Your Training Lead Angela Koch, Director/Founder ImaginePlaces FRSA AoU MSc Urban Regeneration, UCL MSc Spatial Dev,UoT Angela is an accomplished project and process designer and manager. She has a notable track record in delivering best practices and a contagious drive for innovation. She has worked for leading urban design and planning consultancies in the UK and started her career at one of Germany’s foremost sustainability think-tanks at the time. Prior to founding ImaginePlaces, Angela has worked as Senior Associate:Urban Design at Urban Initiatives and at Colin Buchanan; last heading up their Consultation & Engagement team. She has a sound background in urban planning and design, is a trained visual facilitator, and has led on large and small scale masterplans, design coding projects and feasibility studies as well as design value research in the UK, continental Europe, the Middle East and the Philippines. Her enthusiasm for working with people from all walks of life, coupled with her great passion for good urbanism and collaboration made her to study, apply, collate and co-create interactive, enjoyable and effective engagement tools and media. Over the last 3 years Angela had the pleasure to work closely with many Neighbourhood Planning teams and developed through that hands-on work considerable insight into sound, often delightful and co-created Neighbourhood Plan making practices. She is a creative toolmaker with a knack for good urbanism. The work she gets involved with, and, importantly how she approaches it, builds on 15 years of hands-on expertise in gathering a wide range of stakeholders from resident to national organisations at the heart of the design, planning and delivery process. Angela speaks, publishes and teaches on (neighbourhood) plan making best practies, community engagement and measuring public realm improvements.
Fellow: Royal Society of Arts Professional Member: Neighbourbourhood Planning at the Prince’s Foundation Member Shape East’s Design Support and Enabling Panel Member: Academy for Urbanism Network Member: Urbanistas UK
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Urban design gold dust.Chiaradia, Alain J. and Koch, Angela 2013. Urban Design 126, pp. 1-15. Measuring Public Realm qualities. Quantitative and qualitative measures and stories.10+1 London High streets. In the‘hood: Neighbourhood Plan-making in Kentish Town, in Cambridge Architecture Gazette, Spring issue 2013 Streets and Transport in the Urban Environment, The Chartered Institution of Highways & Transportation (CIHT): Chapter on Public and Stakeholder Engagement, joint author with Kris Beuret, in publication, 2013 The Rough Guide to Neighbourhood Planning & Vitality: beta version, 2011, with contributions from John Pounder, Colin Buchanan and Thomas Ermacora, Clear Village High Town East Village Design Codes: adopted SPD, Luton Borough Council(2009), joint author with Marcus Wilshire and Anna Sokolowska, Urban Initiatives Paved with Gold - The Real Value of Good Street Design: CABE,2007, joint author with Paul Buchanan, Colin Buchanan 32
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Speaking/Coaching/Teaching Community Engagement – it’s real, it’s now and it’s happening. Sharing good practice from within our cities, towns and neighbourhood areas. Historic Towns Forum. Look! St Albans; presentation together with Vanessa Gregory. Emerging Urbanism: the inaugural meeting of the Young Urbanists - My Urbanism Story so far? Academy of Urbanism. 2013 National Neighbourhood Planning Camp: Stories from the frontline: Kentish Town, curated by Edenproject/Locality.2013 National Urban Design Conference: The Value of Urban Design, Urban Design Group.2012
Hosting the 2nd informal London Neighbourhood Planning Gathering: Good Planning Policy Focus.#LNPlanningGathering Tudor MSc in Spatial Planning Module: From Vision to Urban Plan. Bartlett, University College London Designing and Planning in Neighbourhoods: From the bottom-up. Scuola di Architettura e Società, Politecnico di Milano,Italy
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Recent projects (‘11-‘13) Learning session on good practise in engaging (local) people in Neighbourhood Planning. Ealing Neighbourhood Planners.London Borough of Ealing.2013 Grove Park Neighbourhood Forum: Providing support for Area&Forum Application. NPlan coaching. On behalf of Locality.2013 Grove Park Station Area, Lewisham: Design charrette, wider co-design and engagement strategy, Delivery for the Prince’s Foundation and Grove Park Community Group. 2011/12/13 Horsham BluePrint: Providing support a joint NPlan Area & Forum Application for 3 Neighbourhood Councils, NPlan coaching. On behalf of Locality.2013 Highgate Neighbourhood Plan, London: Co-design and engagement strategy, street-based engagement programme, social media, NPlan coaching, design charrette. On behalf of the Prince’s Foundation.2012/13 Kentish Town Neighbourhood Plan, London: Co-design and engagement strategy, street-based engagement programme, social media, NPlan coaching, design charrette. Ongoing, on behalf of the Prince’s Foundation. 2012/2013 Advisor to StickyWorld on their Destination Local Research project:’You Can Plan a hyperlocal mobile web-platform for local community planning consultation’, funded by the Technology Strategy Board. 2012/2013 Strategy workshop for trustees and employees of Bootstrap Company. Concept, Delivery, Reporting. 2013 Look!St Albans - Enquiry by design charrette, developed Design Codes for the City centre, public engagement strategy advice, tools and branding for the Prince’s Foundation and Look!St Albans, working with a multi-body steering group, on behalf of the Prince’s Foundation.2012/2013 Dartmouth Park: Provided advice/support on preparing 1st local Community Walkabout, data gathering and publicity. On behalf of Tony Burton&Locality.2013 Understanding Old Town, Croydon: Co-design and engagement strategy, delivery of streetbased engagement programme, OpenDay, Coaching. On behalf of the Prince’s Foundation and Croydon Council.2012 Grove Park Station Area, Lewisham: Design charrette, wider co-design and engagement strategy, NPlan coaching, tools, branding and delivery for the Prince’s Foundation and Grove Park Community Group. 2011/12/13 Old Market Neighbourhood Plan, Bristol: Co-design and engagement strategy, stakeholder and engagement tools and programme for the Prince’s Foundation and Old Market Neighbourhood Forum.2012 Bognor Regis Town Council Neighbourhood Plan: Co-design and engagement strategy, Community Engagement programme, social media, NPlan coaching, design charrette, high street and public realm design. Ongoing; on behalf of the Prince’s Foundation.2012/13 Bognor Regis Seafront Strategy workshop. Arun District Council.2013
Conversation with the future of Atina, I love Atina; Engagement Strategy, tools, branding and delivery of 10-day street-based design residency in collaboration with Clear Village, Fabiana Panetta, Artur Moustafa and many local people.2011
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What should the Community Council do? Public launch workshop of the Queen’s Park Community Council Campaign: Engagement tools and delivery for Paddington Development Trust and Queen’s Park Forum.2011
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Testimonials “My concern for anyone with a limited timescale is that having two many initiatives can feel overwhelming and can lead to ‘burn out’ of the leading figures. Better to focus on what would work in a particular neighbourhood and what is realistically ‘do-able’ with the people resources available. I would advise communities to work with ImaginePlaces as Angela’s indomitable enthusiasm and energy really gets things done!” Maggy Meade-King, Chair Highgate Neighbourhood Forum
“Angela brings enthusiasm, professionalism and good humour to every task she turns her hand to. Her ideas are original and her lateral thinking helps to bring out the best from a diverse audience. She quickly became one of the 'team', and we look forward to working with ImaginePlaces again.” Fabian Sharp, Community Policy and Pratice at Paddington Development Trust/ Queen’s Park Community Council
“As Chair of Grove Park Community Group, it was my pleasure to have worked with Angela on the recent Prince’s Foundation Design Charrette for Grove Park. Without her talent, ideas, support and dedication it would not have been the success it has been.” Mr.S.F.Kenny, emerging Grove Park Neighbourhood Forum
“Angela has worked with the Prince’s Foundation team on several neighbourhood planning projects in large and diverse urban areas. Her enthusiasm, energy and expertise in urban design and innovative methods of community engagement have been invaluable for our team and highly praised by our clients.” Biljana Savic, Programme Manager, CLG Supporting Communities in Planning Programme, Prince’s Foundation for Building Community
“We found Angela’s engagement ideas inspiring and they encouraged the public to get involved. The local secondary school kids loved - ‘What’s your best idea to improve Bognor Regis’ and ‘If you were mayor of Bognor Regis, what would you do to make the area more attractive?’ using the DIY black boards. The three day design and planning workshop went very well. People felt included and part of the process. Angela is a great person to work with and always at the end of the phone!” Ruth Hambleton, Bognor Regis Neighbourhood Planning Frontrunner
“I was delighted that Angela was part of the team from The Prince’s Foundation for Building Community who came and worked with the community in St Albans to help us articulate design codes for areas ready for redevelopment in our city centre. This was a challenging task, given the existing built environment had evolved over many centuries in this historic city. Angela has the gift of reaching very quickly the heart of an area and understanding the people. With her experience, kind nature and sense of fun she soon helped many in the community who felt illequipped to express views on architecture develop the confidence to do so and rediscover latent talents to help with this exciting project. Through her expertise, with the aid of the rest of the team, she encouraged the community to co-author the final report. The draft design codes, informed by the people of St Albans, has been widely praised and is a testament to Angela’s personal abilities and integrity.” Vanessa Gregory, Community Project Manager Look! St Albans
“It was good to work with Angela; she’s very organised and structured, but flexible enough to go with the flow of the group on the day. Angela used some really interesting techniques to get people thinking, talking and working together, and handled any difficult moments or disputes well – a necessary skill. Angela also used an unusual way to display the outputs so everyone can see their individual and group outputs, and how they relate to the overall “common ground” findings drawn from the workshop. These findings have given us a really good basis for going forward with the various pieces of seafront work following the workshop” Caroline Gosford, Senior Regeneration Manager/ Project Manager, Bognor Regis Seafront Project, Economic Regeneration Team, Arun District Council “Thank you for putting your all in to last week and making the ‘Understanding Old Town’ engagement fun and interesting for contributors which meant that we achieved the objectives of gathering lots of local opinions on the area and also engaging people in discussions amongst themselves. Several colleagues who attended the Friday event have said how impressed with your design and management of the day. You created a great rapport with people so that they felt their opinion mattered and I really enjoyed working with you and learnt a lot.” Ruth Coulson, Project Manager Old Town Masterplan, Croydon Council’s Placemaking Team
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“Angela is always up to date with the latest thinking - especially in Local Government/ Neighbourhood and facilitation methods and tools. Innovative.Great to work with.” Keith Warren Price Owner, Pinpoint Facilitation Ltd
Neighbourhood Planning Engagement
Training
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