please empty your brain below
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The List of Policies reads like the legal sounding vagueness that politics specialises in, it'll mean whatever they want it to mean, but they'll tell you that are committed to it.
Still Anon | 12.10.22 - 7:53 a.m. | #
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We had one of these a couple of years ago. I tried to read the 200 page document and gave up and in the end didn't even bother to vote. I remember the turnout was very low but it did get approved.
davews | 12.10.22 - 8:25 a.m. | #
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The list of the places with 'made neighbourhood plans' kind of confirms the problem with the process. They are always much likely to be made in areas where a bunch of retired planners, architects etc live - who understand the process and have time to make something happen. Hence the 'posher' part of a Borough often has a Neighbourhood Plan based on 'protecting' the area based on the views of 20 keen residents - the poorer parts dont have anything similar.
Matt | 12.10.22 - 8:36 a.m. | #
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All part of the pseudo-democracy we now live in.
Keith | 12.10.22 - 8:51 a.m. | #
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Presence of an upper middle class (or better) population doesn't guarantee a plan; for example St. John's Wood is amongst the list of the "started but expired"
And the existence of a plan may not count when it matters. The locally controversial redevelopment of the o2 Shopping centre in North West London is in the plan area for Fortune Green, but the developer (Landsec) and Camden Council have not been taking the neighbourhood plan into account in the planning process, despite detailed engagement by the NPF and nearby local amenity societies (and this is not the common sort of NIMBYism)
MilesT | 12.10.22 - 9:43 a.m. | #
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What Keith said.
Even when you think you know your area well, and are pretty engaged, you still only ever find out about most things after it's too late!
Cornish Cockney | 12.10.22 - 10:16 a.m. | #
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Neighbourhood Plans may not be directly about LTNs, road closures, etc, but local experience suggests that they can end up there, with the combination of activists you mention bending the forum to a “them and us” confrontation between those who don’t want any traffic in their street and others who’ll suffer when it’s all re-routed to theirs instead.
Failure to give residents information before a vote also sounds familiar; referring people to websites where details are impenetrably buried disadvantages whole swathes of residents and more or less guarantees that only a tiny handful of the politically-aware will end up creating policy.
Labourer | 12.10.22 - 10:22 a.m. | #
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Douglas Adams satirised the planning process brilliantly in "Hitchhikers" many years ago (pre internet). Nothing new.
MilesT | 12.10.22 - 10:28 a.m. | #
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We've got a neighbourhood plan for the Isle of Dogs. Lots of eminently sensible stuff such as ensuring GP facilities are built to cope with increased population.
The planning team at LBTH ignore it time and time again. Tower Hamlets happy to grab the developer cash to encourage endless Tower blocks in E14 and spend the developer money elsewhere in the borough. Another example of the dysfunction of Tower Hamlets politics.
IslandDweller | 12.10.22 - 11:09 a.m. | #
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Neighbourhood Plans - so much work and money put into them, for them only to end up as so much tokenistic wallpaper. But instead of acting to make the effective, the proposal now seems to be to get rid of them entirely.
cau1khead | 12.10.22 - 12:25 p.m. | #
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If I've read this correctly, and the vote tomorrow is only on the Neighbourhood Plan, I predict a turnout of <10% of the eligible electorate.
Frank F | 12.10.22 - 5:56 p.m. | #
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Thank you for this. Local reporting is more important than ever as central policy moves responsibility down to the local level (whether this is a good thing or buck shifting is another thing...) I find Private Eye's Rotten Boroughs unerringly depressing, particularly given the sums involved, and wish more people cared about local politics, unsexy as it is. I've just started supporting my independent local (Waltham Forest Echo) and suggest others do the same if they have the option and are able to.
Gunnersaurus | 12.10.22 - 11:25 p.m. | #
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I remembered to go to the polling station (which they’d moved without telling anyone).
The only other voter in the polling station looked at her ballot paper, realised she didn’t understand the question she was voting on and asked the tellers if they could provide any information. They couldn’t, and I left her there looking baffled, indecisive and confused.
diamond geezer | Homepage | 13.10.22 - 9:24 a.m. | #
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I'm glad you voted. Down here in Cornwall, I am off to vote for the local Harbour Commissioners. It seems to be populated by well meaning, hard working fishermen.
Three (of the ten) candidates have taken the trouble to print and distribute house to house leaflets, urging us to vote for them. I don't know any of them, so for me it will be a random choice of three.
Petras409 | 13.10.22 - 9:59 a.m. | #
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The other thing I notice Neighborhood Forums have access to is a pot of Neighborhood Community Infrastructure Levy (NCIL) funding, provided by a levy placed on developments. They bid to the council to spend the NCIL money allocated for their area. Big developments can lead to big pots of cash to spend in an area, no development no cash.
SJM | 13.10.22 - 7:54 p.m. | #
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The referendum results are available on the council website in a Word document.
NO 736
YES 1743
Rejected: 9
Turnout 12.28% Postal turnout 35%
The plan passes.
I assume you saw one of the seven voters whose ballot papers were rejected as "being unmarked or wholly void for uncertainty" which is a catch-all category covering blank papers, messages without votes and those where the vote is unclear.
Tim Roll-Pickering | 14.10.22 - 10:12 a.m. | #
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