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WHAT IS COMMUNITY LED PLANNING?

Community Led Planning is a step-by-step structured process taken on by local community activists, to create a vision for a community and an action plan to achieve it. The process involves using a mix of evidence collection, different types of consultation and debate at the very local neighbourhood level.  It is designed to be a process in which each and every citizen can participate and results in very high levels of participation. The resulting vision covers the social, economic, environmental and cultural well-being of the community and all those who live and work there.

A community led plan is not just about land-use, but about shaping and sustaining services, facilities and the local environment in a way that meets the needs of present and future residents, community groups and local businesses.  It celebrates positive features and activities, highlights local priorities and contains a detailed action plan which can be taken on by public service providers and the local community itself. 

A community led plan challenges local people to say what part they can play in improving their own local neighbourhood and builds the capacity of local community groups to respond.

It is also more likely to achieve the involvement of local authority officers, public service providers and elected members in the debate within the community about what the action plan should contain.

Community Led Planning is now the aspiration within government policy for all communities. It is central to the challenge presented to local government in building empowered communities everywhere.

Over 4,000 communities across England have so far engaged in some form of Community Led Planning and a conservative estimate of the number of people benefiting in some way from the use of all Community Led Plans is 7.2 million.

Please click on the links below to find out more about the Community Led Planning process:

Why prepare a Community Led Plan? 

How do you prepare a Community Led Plan?

What makes a good Community Led Plan?

Alternatively please contact Lesley Millgate or Carl Marshall for information.

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