Policy tools

Tool: Strategic Policy

Cornwall Council strategic policy team uses parish plans as a key part of the evidence base to establish what the aspirations and priorities are for different places.

Example of tool in use: Area Based Discussion Paper

Currently published as part of the Options Paper consultation, this paper is available on the consultation portal or to download as a PDF.

Further information

Contributed by Sarah Arden MRTPI, Senior Planning Policy Officer, Strategic Policy Team, Cornwall Council

Tool: Regeneration Strategy

The development of a strategy for a complete social, economic and environmental regeneration development package which embraces the principles of sustainable development and includes collaboration between the public, private and voluntary sectors.

Example of tool in use: Pencoed Regeneration Strategy

In October 2009 Bridgend County Borough Council and Pencoed Town Council entered into a partnership agreement to develop a Regeneration Strategy and Action Plan for Pencoed. In January 2010, Hyder Consulting Ltd were appointed to develop the strategy.

Initial consultation was undertaken with a variety of groups and organisations which included: County Borough and Town Council Members; County Borough Council Officers; Pencoed PACT; Pencoed Secondary School; a ‘Just Ask’ Youth Event; Bridgend College; the Pencoed Welfare Hall Committee; Local Businesses and the Local Service Board (LSB).

Following this a long list of projects for the area was drawn up and evaluated against a set of objectives. This resulted in a list of 18 preferred projects under the headings of: Social and Community; Economic and Commercial; Environment; and Movement. Public consultation on the draft strategy was held for six weeks between October – December 2010. Bridgend County Borough Council adopted the Strategy on the 12th January 2011. The document is now Supplementary Planning Guidance (SPG) to the adopted Bridgend Unitary Development Plan under appropriate regeneration-based policies and is a material consideration in the determination of relevant planning applications.

A Project Board has now been established to monitor implementation of the projects and the Action Plan.

Further information (pdf, 5.9 mb)

Contributed by Stuart Ingram MRTPI, Principal Planning Officer (Development Planning), Regeneration and Development, Bridgend County Borough Council

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