Planning - Feb/Mar 2012

Planning Workshop (MS Powerpoint, 1.6 Mb)

This is a 31 slide presentation all about planning issues by Lance Wiggins and associate director with Landmark Planning.

Fosse Village Neighbourhood Plan presentation (MS Powerpoint, 11.1 Mb)

This is a case study of one of 17 pilot schemes in the first wave of neighbourhood planning under the Localism Act.

The 26 slide presentation is by Mike Lee, Chairman of Blaby South Community Forum for 3½ years, also now Chairman of the Fosse Villages Neighbourhood Plan Group (FVNP). He was formerly on Sapcote PC for 18 years, and chairman for 5 terms.He's been a resident of Stoney Stanton/Sapcote since 1975.He has experience of demographic and development planning in the UK and overseas through the RGS, Industry and New Towns Commission in the 1970s.

Neighbourhood Planning Toolkit (PDF, 946 Kb)

The Leicester and Leicestershire Neighbourhood Planning Toolkit has been developed by the nine local authorities and local Neighbourhood Plan Groups to guide communities to the relevantinformation and organisations they need for Neighbourhood Planning in Leicester and Leicestershire.
There is a wealth of Neighbourhood Planning information available and this Toolkit signposts to these key resources, supplementing with locally specific information and advice where necessary. The Toolkit outlines the new planning powers available to communities setting out what a Neighbourhood Plan can and cannot do and also summarising other popular community planning techniques used in Leicester and Leicestershire.