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Working Groups launch
Today• What a Working Group is• How they will operate• What work they need to do
• Finalise the Working Groups• Get you to sign up and meet other
potential members
What does a Working Group do?
• Gathers evidence, suggests options• Engages with wider community• It DOES NOT make decisions about
what goes in the final Neighbourhood Plan– the community of Godalming and
Farncombe does
• You do not have to be on a Working Group to have a voice
How the Working Groups will work
• Working Group has to be a minimum of 4 (including the lead person)
• Working Group members are either residents, have a business, own a property or own land in the parish
• Working Group lead sits on Steering Group
• Each Working Group is responsible for its own secretarial services
Possible Working GroupsGROUP POSSIBLE THEMES TO COVER
Housing Location Type (needs)
Heritage & Design Heritage Design
Environment Green lungs
Landscape integrity
Recreational spaces
Water management
Waste water
Transport Road Parking Public transport
Pedestrian/ cycle Safety
Economy Commerce/industry
Retail/ High Street
Home working
Community & Infrastructure Education Health Arts &
Culture Sports Social activity
Some possible issues for the
Working Groups
Housing
• Where should new housing be located?
• What sites do we want to allocate for housing?• Are there particular types of housing that need to be provided, e.g. small housing, affordable housing?
Heritage & Design• How well is the Conservation Area
being preserved?• What should new residential
development look like?• How do we best
celebrate/preserve our heritage?
Economy• How can we attract new businesses – do
we want to? If so, where should it be located?
• How can we provide for the needs of our existing businesses?• How can we ensure our High Street continues to thrive?
• How can we protect our pubs from being converted to other uses if they close?
Transport• Are there any issues with traffic flow
through the area?• How do we best address the parking
problems?• How can we improve public transport serving Godalming town/access to the railway stations?
• How can we increase cycling and walking?
Environment• What green open spaces of value to the
community should we seek to protect?• How can retain/increase our biodiversity
assets?• How can we ensure
that new development minimises its carbon footprint?
• How can we best address flood issues?
Community & Infrastructure• What new leisure and community
facilities are needed?• What existing leisure and community
facilities need improving/ upgrading?• What are the needs of young people?• What impact will
development have on our key infrastructure – schools, GP surgeries?
What should the Working Groups be?
• Housing• Heritage & Design• Economy• Transport• Environment• Community & Infrastructure
Different groups? Other groups?
How do we produce a Neighbourhood Plan?
Vision and
objectives
Evidence
Policies
So how do we produce a Vision?
What does a sustainable Godalming
and Farncombe look like in 15 years’
time?
What should the Vision be?• Danger of being ‘motherhood and
apple pie’– “a wonderful place to live where
everyone has a high value job locally, no large lorries come through the town and everyone travels by public transport…”
• Needs to be a realistic narrative• The Vision informs the Objectives,
which ultimately inform the Policies
So how do we input into the Plan?
1. What are the issues we want to address?
2. What evidence do we need?3. What are the possible options for
addressing each issue?4. What is the preferred option for
each issue?
Evidence gathering• Know your ‘baseline’ – audit what is here today
• Look at what has happened in the past– Planning permissions, take-up of new
development
• Workshops, debates• Talk to the experts– Estate agents, local providers–We can help with technical stakeholders
Some ‘rules’• You cannot propose policies which
simply say ‘no’ to development• Proposals have to be ‘deliverable’• You have to have the landowners of
sites in the plan on board• You need to engage with interested
parties
Any Questions?
Next steps• We are holding 4 launch sessions• Tell us your preferences for Working
Groups you would like to be on• We will let you know the outcome
shortly• Everyone that wants to be involved
on a Working Group will have the opportunity
Next Steps• We will sort out the Working Groups
and suggest a first meeting date/venue– Introduce yourselves– Start to talk about the issues and the
‘Vision’– Appoint a lead
• We will arrange for each group member to have a Support Document
Process1. Working Groups identify key issues
and suggestions for the ‘Vision’2. We hold a public event to ask the
community about ‘their Godalming and Farncombe’– Agree Vision and some Objectives
3. Ongoing work on evidence gathering4. Workshop with Working Groups to
consider solutions– There will be many cross-cutting issues
Timeline• Difficult to be precise at this time– A function of the issues you want to
address
• Other equivalent plans are taking up to 18 months to produce a draft Neighbourhood Plan
• Summer months are best for engagement
Louise Goodfellow
Clerk to Godalming Town CouncilTel: 01483 523575
Email: [email protected]
Chris Bowden
Navigus PlanningTel: 01206 700260
Email: [email protected]