1. Neighbourhood Planning in Cornwall
126 Town and parish councils are involved in the Neighbourhood Planning Process
113 Designated Areas
36 Pre – Submission Consultations held
29 Plan Proposals Submitted to CC
23 Examinations held
20 Referendums held
20 Made Plans

3. Top Tips – Early stages Project management focus – keep going!
Recruit volunteers and use existing community resources and equipment before for funding
Focus on key issues – don’t replicate the Local Plan
Communication and consultation
Consult residents via questionnaires, community events, tailoring engagement to demographic in parish
Keep Parishioners informed of progress through parish newsletter, local press
Create a NDP website/webpage and keep it updated with meeting minutes, consultation and progress
Engage early on with stakeholders

4. Examples Mawnan consultation branding
Roche – publicity and questionnaire
Carlyon Bay – Questionnaire analysis
St Stephen in Brannel – Questionnaire Analysis

5. Top Tips – Drafting the Plan
Attend CC Neighbourhood planning surgeries
Discuss options for turning issues into options
Use the policy drafting and document templates
Be clear, state the objective and justify with evidence
Get early draft screening for SEA from CC and receive advice from different services
Submit final draft NDP and supporting documents with contents pages, making sure information/maps are on the right page with clear links to evidence
Organise and publish clear evidence base document
Use the guide notes for pre-submission consultation and submission

6. Examples Topics analysis Carlyon / St Stephen in Brannel
Templates and guidance
Policy Template
NDP template
SEA Guide Note
Presubmission Consultation
Formal Submission Checklist
Basic Conditions Statement Template
Consultation Statement Template

7. Top Tips – Monitoring and Implementation
Brief your parish council members on the NDP
Reference the NDP when submitting comments on planning applications – specify section and reasons
Keep your website up to date – especially as the NDP is emerging
Consider triggers for review

8. What will Cornwall Council Do?

9. Weight of Emerging and Made NDPs excerpt from Briefing Note: Weight of Emerging Neighbourhood Plans

10. Examples
St Ives Town Council monitor their NDP in decisions made – we have review meetings with them
Liskeard are setting up a ‘watchdog’ group
Roseland monitored the implementation of the NDP for a year – plan to attend surgery
CC monitor delivery against allocations, delivery in ‘Principal Residence’ areas, appeals results

11. Recent Appeal Decisions
Principal Residence
Appeals to lift the condition dismissed in St Ives Area and St Minver Parishes
Condition applied when appeal to build new house in Rame Peninsula allowed
Development Boundary
Appeal for new site outside settlement boundary dismissed – St Minver Parishes
Development site allowed in line with emerging NDP Wadebridge
Appeal for site outside settlement boundary dismissed - Liskeard
Design
Larger replacement dwelling allowed – Roseland

12. Lessons learned from Appeals
Make sure your justification and evidence is robust - the test at appeal will be tougher than examination
Design policies which describe character and ask proposals to respond are stronger than set restrictions