In more detail
When you start work on a neighbourhood plan, you are likely to find that people often want to talk about issues that are only indirectly related, or unrelated, to the way local land is used. Residents, for example, often have a lot to say about the way services are delivered including:
- Public services – things like waste collection; road repairs; schools; policing and the emergency services; the local health service; community centres.
- Utilities, transport and housing providers – power and water companies; bus and rail operators; landlords – both social and private; telecoms and cable companies and mobile and broadband coverage.
- Local businesses – small shops and high street traders; markets; pubs and cafes; supermarkets; restaurants and nightlife.
In an urban neighbourhood, there is usually a higher density of service issues to talk about, than in a rural town or village. There are more shops and businesses; more transport links and more disruption to them; and more households served more intensely by a wider range of public services. This is one reason why wider community planning – which covers how the neighbourhood is managed as well as planned – is likely to particularly useful in urban places.
Joined-up Services
Neighbourhood management is the idea that places can be managed and served in a joined-up way locally. (Rather than public services delivering the same service everywhere regardless of how well it meets local needs and works to local strengths.) Managing services in a joined-up way can add more social value and enable people and businesses to make more of where they are based. A neighbourhood management plan is a document like a neighbourhood plan but which describes policies and objectives for managing the place in a joined up way, rather than developing local land use.
Top-Down and Bottom-Up
A neighbourhood management plan is not necessarily a community plan. The council and otehr bodies can try to integrate the way neighbourhoods are managed centrally and top-down. The same as you can try to plan the development of neighbourhoods from an office in the city centre and without visiting the place you are planning for. In general, however, locally made 'bottom-up' plans are probably more effective because they are: better informed about local resources and opportunities; more likely to focus on the critical points in the locality where a little effort can yield valuable results; and they are more likely to be used in practice.
Planning neighbourhood management at the same time as making a statutory neighbourhood plan might save time and produce more effective results.
| Key Facts:
Neighbourhood management is an approach based on managing places rather than individual services. It covers a lot of the things which people and local businesses care about and that add value to the local area. It is likely to be particularly important in urban neighbourhoods. Neighbourhood management can be done 'top-down' by the council and other organisations working together. But a bottom-up (community based) approach is likely to be more successful. |
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