NPN
Website: for regular
updates see News
NPN Annual Meeting:
Saturday 5 February
9.30 - 12.30Unitarian Chapel, Brunswick Court, Brunswick Square BS2
NPN members are
invited to get together on 5 February to discuss how the Network goes forward
for the year. There are a lot of new initiatives coming from the Coalition
Government to discuss, and we would like your feedback on local and
national changes to planning processes.
Proposed Agenda
items:
-
Localism Bill
how does this change
the way planning works and how do NPN groups get involved?
-
Pre-application
update and
feedback
-
Area Plans
update and
feedback
-
Neighbourhood Partnerships
how are
NPN groups finding they can work with the NP organisation?
-
AOB and priorities for the
year
PLEASE LET ME KNOW WHETHER YOU
ARE ABLE TO ATTEND
and if there are any particular items you would like to see added to the agenda.
BCS & Bristol and Bath branch of RIBA: January speaker event OPEN TO ALL
Monday 17 January
6.30
Unitarian Meeting Hall, Brunswick Square
(North Side)
Admission for members is
FREE, non-members £2.00
The State of Architecture Today
– can we make any sense of it?
The speaker will be
Professor
Richard Parnaby,
Joint Director of the
Centre for Sustainable Planning and Environments
at the University of the West
of England.
Everybody is in favour of good design but how do we know what is good?
Contemporary architecture offers a bewildering variety of styles –
minimalism,
neo-modernism,
revivalism,
contextualism,
deconstruction,
hi-tech parametricism…
How do we tell good from bad, the beautiful from the ugly?
See Bristol
Civic Society Website for flyer.
NPN bi monthly meeting with Planning Officers
Tuesday 18 January
5.30 – 7.30
Brunel House
Proposed Agenda
I have asked for an
update of the programme on the many processes in the BDF that are currently in
train:
- Core Strategy
- Site Allocations and what is now happening to AGSP disposal sites
- Development Management principles
- Central Area Action Plan
I have asked that
this will include an explanation of what is happening with the information that
has been submitted for eg the Site Allocations and Development Management
Principles, and what the next stages will be for each of these
processes.
Proposed changes to
CIL and the Localism Bill are still not fully worked out,
so this could be on
the next meetings agenda.
If there is
anything you want to raise please can you let me know asap
so that we can give
the officers time to prepare the response.
BCS 'JOINING UP BRISTOL' event:
Tuesday 8 Feb
6.30
Colston Hall 2
FREE and OPEN TO ALL
BCS is
presenting this event and public debate
Introduction by
David Bishop,
Strategic Director of City
Development
The
speakers are
Peter Floyd
former Head of Urban Design,
Prof John Punter
Chair of Steering Group Bristol Urban
Design Forum and
David Freed
Director of Deeley Freed Estates
Ltd
The ideas
generated by the event will help to guide the preparation of the
Central
Area Action Plan
Bristol Civic Society Planning Applications Group (BCS PAG) Meeting Lists
Since July 2010, I have been circulating the agenda for these meetings so that other planning groups are aware that the BCS is considering commenting on the applications listed.
You are invited to contact the BCS to let them know of your own concerns or responses to the proposals so that they can take account of them in their comments.
The list
for the meeting
10 January has been posted on the NPN website
in News.
Please see
the link for details of which applications are on the list and contact details
for the BCS PAG.
A list of
current applications being considered by the Planning Applications Group is kept
on the BCS website. http://www.bristolcivicsociety.org.uk/
Planning Aid Funding withdrawn from 31 March 2011
A formal letter from the minister, Rt Hon Greg Clark MP,
has been received by the RTPI,
which states that the RTPI Planning Aid England
(PAE) contract and funding will not be continued beyond the 31 March 2011.
The
RTPI, which oversees the PAE delivery contract, have also met with officials at
the Department of Communities and Local Government (CLG) to discuss the future
for PAE beyond this date.
Alternative funding streams are being sought for
Planning Aid and they are hoping to be able to continue to provide their support
for communities after the cut off date.
For more details and to support their campaign
please
contact Mike Oakley at mailto:swadmin@planningaid.rtpi.org.uk
Bristol City Council Consultation on Potential significant changes to the Core Strategy
The Council have now published potential
significant changes to the Core Strategy arising from the examination
hearings that took place in
June, July and September 2010.
They are set out in the ‘Schedules of Potential
Significant Changes’ document below. The Council is now inviting representations
on these changes.
Notes produced at the Publication stage to assist with the
making of representations can still be used and are also available to
download.
Consultation closes 28 January
To make comments
about the proposed changes go to link
Bristol City Council Consultation on Article 4 directive Housing in Multiple Occupation
The Council
are providing an opportunity to make representations on the making of an article
4 direction to remove permitted development rights for a change of use between
a
Dwellinghouse (Use Class C3) and a small House in Multiple Occupation (Use Class
C4).
The Article 4 was made on 10 December 2010 for the wards of Ashley, Cabot,
Clifton East, Cotham and Lawrence Hill and is proposed to come into effect on 11
December 2011.
Consultation closes 31 March 2011
To make
comments about the Article 4 directive go to link
