Local Place Plan versus Community Development Plan
Local Place Plan
A Local Place Plan has a particular function to help communities articulate how they want to see development and regulation of land-use and buildings happen over a period of 5 to 10 years.
It is a new form of plan that gives communities a statutory right to develop a document that, when registered with the Local Authority Planning Department, becomes a material consideration (i.e. something that carries weight in the decision-making process) in how decisions are made about development and regulation of land use and buildings in your place.
It is designed to focus on issues that the planning system controls, not everything that a wider Community Action can cover.
For example, LPPs can make proposals about the location and type of housing that a community would like to see, or an expansion to an existing conservation area.
Because an LPP is designed to make policy proposals to influence the planning system, a delivery plan is not required. Instead, what is required is a series of statements reasoning why (‘justifying’) each proposal should be allowed by the planning system.
Not all ideas and projects in a CAP will have a connection to the planning system, but some will. For example, a CAP project to build a community centre would do well to also be expressed as an LPP proposal inviting the planning system to recognise that a community centre could, in principle, be built in a particular location.
Community Action Plan
A Community Action Plan (CAP) is a document that lays out the aims of a community for 5 to 10 years.
It has a vision to aim for and can cover all the changes that your community needs and wants to be become a thriving place for all to live.
These changes can include everything from setting up youth groups to working to make local streets safer to plans to convert an empty local building into a community centre.
It usually has a list of actions and projects alongside a delivery plan for how to make things happen.
For each project or action, the delivery plan has things like
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timeframes (short/medium/long)
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indicative costs
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first steps
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lists of partner organisations to work with
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and possibly a nominated local lead group to work towards delivery.
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