This week I attended a meeting of the "LPP CAP Community Forum" and learnt about Local Place Plans (LPP) with their aim to increase community involvement in the planning and spatial design process.
Providing a way for communities to communicate their desires, the Council are legally required to consider the content of the LPP. Intended to stimulate and encourage debate about the future of a place and enable communities to focus on aspirations and needs. Community led and collaborative this is an approach to local place-making, setting out proposals for the development and use of land.
These are longer term than the Community Action Plans (CAP) which are also intended to empower community involvement but over a shorter term and possibly wider range of topics. Both LPP and CAP can work side by side in active community engagement.
There is a How To Guide to walk you through submitting a LPP. I wonder if communities can offer visions that help us move to a more sustainable future - less dependent on Carbon, cleaner, greener, healthier, requiring less energy, incorporating local food production, working within the resources we already have (circular economy), providing education, training and employment for the jobs we will have in the future. How ambitious can we be with our LPPs? The word "radical" was used in the meeting to describe the changes required to address the climate and nature crisis we face - lets be bold - lets start being part of the solution!
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