Hexham Neighbourhood Plan

Welcome to

Hexham Neighbourhood Plan

Forum 1

22nd April 2015

Hexham Neighbourhood Plan

Programme for this eve

①Welcome and Introductions

②What a Neighbourhood Plan can do, and what it can’t do

③Hexham – the good, the bad, and what development we want (all)

④Towards an HNP Vision for Hexham (all)

⑤A couple of Major Themes for HNP

⑥Next Steps, for Forum 2(e.g. draft Vision, draft Objectives, Scope of and Evidence for 1-2 Major Themes, to set priorities within these)

Hexham Neighbourhood Plan

Hexham Neighbourhood Plan

A Neighbourhood Plan

Key Principles: Town Planning

• the rules governing spaces and

buildings, where they are

• what purpose they serve

• and what they look like

• with an expectation of development

What local people want!

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Hexham Neighbourhood Plan

Hexham Neighbourhood Plan

Hexham Neighbourhood Plan

Hexham Neighbourhood Plan

Hexham Neighbourhood Plan

Hexham Neighbourhood Plan

Hexham Neighbourhood Plan

Hexham Neighbourhood Plan

A Neighbourhood Plan

Key Principles: Town Planning

• the rules governing spaces and

buildings, where they are

• what purpose they serve

• and what they look like

• with an expectation of development

What local people want!

Hexham Neighbourhood Plan

What a

Neighbourhood Plan

can’t do:

The Neighbourhood Plan

can’t decide on housing

numbers for Hexham.

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What a Neighbourhood Plan can’t do:

The Neighbourhood Plan can’t decide on Green Belt boundary changes.

Legislation dictates that Green Belt boundaries can only be amended by the

County Council.

Like housing, people can try and influence this through the County

Council’s consultation process. It is not within the remit of a Neighbourhood Pan

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What a Neighbourhood Plan can’t do:

The Neighbourhood Plan can’t deal with

strategic planning matters.

The Neighbourhood Plan must be in

conformity with other higher level plans.

It must also be in accordance with the

National Planning Policy Framework.

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What a Neighbourhood Plan can

do:

Provide a comprehensive policy

framework for future sites (i.e. Market

Place, land at Railway Station)

Provide detailed policy on matters

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What a Neighbourhood Plan can do:

Allocate sites for development – specify

what type of development is acceptable,

and where.

Allocate sites to be protected from

development (i.e. public open space).

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HNP in a nutshell§ Made possible by the Localism Act 2011

§ Giving local people a say in how their

neighbourhood develops

§ To be used by NCC planners to decide on all

planning applications in Hexham ……

§ … and by sensible developers in advance.

~ It will have a vision, objectives, themes we deem

relevant to the town, evidence, to justify policies

that will state what will be, what we want to be.

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What a Neighbourhood Plan

must do:

Provide clear planning policy to

guide development within the

Neighbourhood Plan Area.

It will help us achieve our Vision

for Hexham.

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What a Neighbourhood

Plan

can (and can’t)

achieve.

Questions

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Towards our Objectives

Hexham – the good, the bad,

and how it must develop

Groups of 3-4

Agree 3 Goods (onto 1 post-it)

Agree 3 Bads (onto 2nd post-it)

Agree 3 how it must develop (onto 3rd post-it)

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HNP Vision for Hexham

In your Groups, agree 3 key

words for our Vision.

First, thinking time!

Then 3 words on a post-it.

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The Community Partnership’s

Vision for Hexham

HEXHAM WILL BE AN

INCREASINGLY VIBRANT,

ENTERPRISING AND

ADAPTABLE MARKET TOWN

FOR RESIDENTS,

BUSINESS AND VISITORS

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Town Plan 2013

Hexham will build on its great

strengths of people, heritage

and outdoor space and will

provide an environment to

develop new strengths,

ensuring a vibrant and robust

future and maximising the

quality of life for all who live in,

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Hexham Vision 2020 and Town

Plan 2014

Always welcoming and family

friendly, Hexham in 2020 will be

a thriving historic Market Town,

ambitious and enterprising, with

so much to see and do, amid

unrivalled countryside, well

loved by residents and visitors

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2014 Built Environment

Group

Hexham’s built

environment will retain

its essential character

and setting as a historic

market town. New

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Any of these make you

change any of your 3?

Want to add 1?

The Steering Group will craft

drafts for Forum 2:

Vision and Objectives

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HNP so far

Town Council Committee

HNP Steering Group

Our own MRTPI (part-time)

HNP Forum www.hexhamneighbourhoodplan.co.uk

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The HNP Steering Group wants

some work.

Give them a Theme to work up.

They’ll do some scoping, some

evidence gathering, options.

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Post-Forum Update:

4 Themes were selected by the Forum:

1. Housing - local houses for local people

2. Hexham’s Essential Architectural

Character

3. Accessibility - including signage

4. Wildlife Pathways

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HNP Forum 2

Weds 15th July 2015, at 7.00pm.

Steering Group will present drafts

for discussion:

Vision, Objectives,

First Themes – evidence, scoping, options

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Good communications are

vital.

Tell us what you think.www.hexhamneighbourhoodplan.co.uk

And Thank You.