
Empowering the Carn Brea Parish community through Neighbourhood Planning

- Company: GOCOLLABORATE LIMITED
- Client: Carn Brea Parish Council
- Year: 2021
- Region: UK-wide
- Product: NEIGHBOURHOOD DEVELOPMENT PLANNING
- Community engagement
- Geographical information systems (GIS) and mapping
- Plan-making, planning application and data management systems
Introduction
Given previous problems GoCollaborate were commissioned by the Carn Brea Parish Council to work with their neighbourhood planning group to take the pain and much of the cost out of the required consultations and reporting of results back to the community and wider stakeholders.
Challenges
The platform made it easy for community members to understand what the issues were and give their views on future requirements. The digital map that is at the heart of the platform enabled residents to identify the footpaths they used regularly, and to express their thoughts on where new footpaths should be created to connect different parts of the parish and make it easier for people to move around on foot.
Residents also used the platform’s chat functionality to discuss their views on the proposals relating to conservation and heritage, including the use of the Cornish language to name new developments, as well as give feedback on housing objectives and two proposed development boundaries.
Critically the platform enabled the results to be translated into formal proposals for feeding back to the community for final agreement.
Solutions
The platform made it easy for community members to understand what the issues were and give their views on future requirements. The digital map that is at the heart of the platform enabled residents to identify the footpaths they used regularly, and to express their thoughts on where new footpaths should be created to connect different parts of the parish and make it easier for people to move around on foot.
Residents also used the platform’s chat functionality to discuss their views on the proposals relating to conservation and heritage, including the use of the Cornish language to name new developments, as well as give feedback on housing objectives and two proposed development boundaries.
Critically the platform enabled the results to be translated into formal proposals for feeding back to the community for final agreement.
Results
The consultation resulted in concerns being raised over the clarity of parking provision for the new houses and the potential impact on the safety of pedestrians which was taken into account by the steering group.
In total there were 551 unique sessions on the platform through 131 people registering and completing the questions asked.
GoCollaborate’s involvement provided the group with high quality, accessible and easily used data that enabled them to move their plans forward with confidence, knowing that residents had been and given the opportunity to put forward their ideas and suggestions.
Great to work with a small, dedicated group who are adapting to our plans and needs and providing invaluable support. Very excited!
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