“Very Helpful”, “Excellent – well done” and “well presented and organised”, were just a few of the comments received from attendees to RCCE’s Community Engagement Team’s training on the Localism Act’s Community Rights.
After feedback from RCCE’s Neighbourhood Planning training in February and talking to parish and town councils across Essex, the Community Engagement Team decided July was the right time to put on a training event in the form of an introduction to some of the new rights: ‘Getting to grips with New Community Rights’. The ‘Community Rights’ covered in the session were:
After feedback from RCCE’s Neighbourhood Planning training in February and talking to parish and town councils across Essex, the Community Engagement Team decided July was the right time to put on a training event in the form of an introduction to some of the new rights: ‘Getting to grips with New Community Rights’. The ‘Community Rights’ covered in the session were:
The Right to Build
The Right to Bid (assets of community value)
The Right to Challenge
The Right to undertake Neighbourhood Planning
This two hour training session explained what these new rights are, explored when they might be used and looked at the processes involved. It was very much an introduction and following on from this, the team plan to deliver more on this topic in future, so watch this space!
Also in July, The Community Engagement Team carried on the Localism theme by hosting a free training session for communities undertaking Neighbourhood Plans. This session took place on Saturday the 14th July with the training being delivered by Planning Aid. This is the second training event that RCCE and Planning Aid have worked on together. RCCE believes it is important to provide relevant and up to date information to communities and by working with Planning Aid attendees were able to have the opportunity to talk to planners , draw on national examples and look at some of the process in greater depth.
This session covered various topics connected with the process including:
Getting started and preparing a project plan
What to include in an evidence base
An introduction to assessment of sites
Writing policy and proposals
After the training, everyone was invited to stay and enjoy lunch. This gave people the chance to carry on talking to others undertaking plans, planners and the Community Engagement Team. It is hoped that more of these sessions will be available later in the year.
