Your Place, Your Future

What’s happening?

There has been a year long consultation looking at how each neighbourhood in Plymouth could become a more sustainable linked community over the next 15 years. Find out which neighbourhood you live in by looking at the Plymouth Neighbourhoods Map in the documents table below.

For each neighbourhood there were three stages to discuss the issues and options in the area:

1. Your local Councillors planned a walk around your area and showed key people from the Council and/or other organisations the main issues and opportunities in your area
2. A group of local representatives spent a day looking at your area in detail and suggesting information and ideas
3. An exhibition was open for a week for anyone in the community and across the city to come along and comment on the information and ideas collected so far, suggest changes or add more details

You can contribute at anytime by adding your views to the Bulletin Board for your area - these are updated with the key issues identified by the consultation when appropriate.

At the beginning of July, anyone in the city will be able to view all the details and ideas collected, before the Council moves on to process this information and develop a draft plan using the ideas and suggestions.

Why?

The aim is to:

• work with communities and partners to access knowledge and understanding about Plymouth, and ensure this feeds into the Local Development Framework and other strategic work in the city
• ensure that a wide range of people have an opportunity to be involved and put forward their views and ideas for how their neighbourhood may change in the future
• assess the accuracy of the Sustainable Neighbourhood Assessments and make amendments as needed like a planning audit of your area
• highlight sites that should be safeguarded from development and identify potential new sites that may be developed or change use over the next 15 years.
• identify what each community needs to make it more sustainable and how this could happen
• increase awareness of the Local Development Framework and its role in creating sustainable linked communities

Did you miss the BIG Picture?

The BIG picture was a show case and final chance to add and view comments made during the year long Your Place, Your Future consultation programme.

Events included a public event for anyone to come and see the results and ask questions, a meeting of local councillors, a meeting of Council officers and other organisations including a separate event for architects and developers.

Comments which have been made so far can be viewed on the relevant Sustainable Neighbourhood Assessments page. The responses are now being analysed and are expected to be published in November 2008.

Documents

	The BIG Picture leaflet - leaflet explaining the BIG Picture event which was held in July 2008. File format Adobe Acrobat (pdf) - 487KB
	Plymouth Neighbourhoods Map - map showing the neighbourhood boundaries in Plymouth. File format Adobe Acrobat (pdf) - 684KB
	Neighbourhood Consultation Events - a table of neighbourhood events arranged in alphabetical order. File format Adobe Acrobat (pdf) - 30KB
	Your Place, Your Future leaflet - details the Sustainable Neighbourhood Development Plan consultation due to run until June 2008. File format Adobe Acrobat (pdf) - 1.4MB

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