An overview of proposed sustainable development and community initiatives in Parkend and potential . business models for community purpose.

1. Parkend Development Initiative
Issues:
Localisation
Funding Models
Sustainable Energy
Local Broadband and Employment
Affordable Housing
Local Transport
Improved Leisure
Strengthen Community

2. Parkend Development Initiative
The Economics of Happiness
'Going local' is a powerful strategy to help
repair our fractured world – our
ecosystems, our societies and our selves.
Far from the old institutions of power,
people are starting to forge a very different
future...

3. Parkend Development Initiative
People-Centered Local Economies
Means:
- People at the centre of local development
- Business investing in community
- Local food, energy, resource, manufacture
- Those in greatest need have first priority
Link: People-Centered Economic Development

4. Parkend Development Initiative
The Parish and Community Plan
Identify what local people want to keep/change
Consultation process
Questionnaire
Priority for local authority development
Link: :Parkend and Whitecroft website

5. Parkend Development Initiative
Community Plan Consultation Form
What’s good about living here?
What could be improved?
What don’t you like? How do you see the future?
Link: People-Centered Economic Development

6. Parkend Development Initiative
Hyperlocal information
Ongoing discussion
Changed conditions and new concerns
Who’s doing what?
Where can I find a service?
Where can I get help?
Link: People-Centered Economic Development

7. Parkend Development Initiative
Blogging for community

8. Parkend Development Initiative
Localisation: The Localism Bill
new freedoms and flexibilities for local government
new rights and powers for communities and individuals
reform to make the planning system more democratic
and more effective
reform to ensure that decisions about housing are taken
locally

9. Parkend Development Initiative
New freedoms and flexibilities for local government
The Bill will:
-give local authorities everywhere the formal legal ability and greater
confidence to get on with the job of responding to what local people want
-cut red tape to enable councillors everywhere to play a full and active part
in local life without fear of legal challenge
-encourage a new generation of powerful leaders with the potential to
raise the profile of English cities, strengthen local democracy and boost
economic growth
- reform the governance of London so that more power lies in the hands of
elected representatives who are democratically accountable to London’s
citizens

10. Parkend Development Initiative
New rights and powers for local communities
The Bill will:
-make it easier for local people to take over the amenities they love and
keep them part of local life
-ensure that local social enterprises, volunteers and community groups
with a bright idea for improving local services get a chance to change
how things are done
-give people a new way to voice their opinions on any local issue close to
their heart
-enable local residents to call local authorities to account for the careful
management of taxpayers’ money

11. Parkend Development Initiative
Reform to make the planning system clearer, more
democratic and more effective
The Bill will:
-place significantly more influence in the hands of local people over
issues that make a big difference to their lives
-provide appropriate support and recognition to communities who
welcome new development
-reduce red tape, making it easier for authorities to get on with the job of
working with local people to draw up a vision for their area’s future
-reinforce the democratic nature of the planning system - passing power
from bodies not directly answerable to the public, to democratically
accountable ministers

12. Parkend Development Initiative
Reform to ensure that decisions about housing are
taken locally
The Bill will:
- enable local authorities to make their own decisions to adapt housing
provision to local needs, and make the system fairer and more effective
- give local authorities more control over the funding of social housing,
helping them to plan for the long term
- give people who live in social housing new ways of holding their
landlords to account, and make it easier for them to move

13. Parkend Development Initiative
UK Community Models
Cooperative
Community Interest Company
Limited Liability Partnership
Community Benefit Society
Social Business

14. Parkend Development Initiative
Cooperative
Long established and proven
Consumer and producer models
Equal share and voting rights
Member funding and share of surplus

15. Parkend Development Initiative
Community Interest Company
Limited by Shares or Guarantee
Conventional loan funding
65% profit or more for community

16. Parkend Development Initiative
Limited Liability Partnership
Partnership agreement to share investment and
reward
Financial, IP or sweat equity
Public & Private partners
Returns in product or sale equivalent
Tax transparency

17. Parkend Development Initiative
Community Benefit Societies
Social objectives for business/trade
Run and managed by their members
Fundraising via community shares
Can be established as charities
Link: Community Benefit Societies

18. Parkend Development Initiative
Social business
For people and planet
No dividend distribution
A primary social objective
Link : Social Business and For Benefit Corporations

19. Parkend Development Initiative
Sustainable local energy
- Solar PV
- Solar Water
- Biomass Heating

20. Parkend Development Initiative
Sustainable energy: Solar PV

21. Parkend Development Initiative
Solar PV for community buildings
2 x 8kw installations
Investment £40-60k
Generation + feed in tariff
Annual payback £6k
25 year return > £100k
Grant potential?

22. Parkend Development Initiative
Solar PV future investment
Residents buy into future production and
fund new installations

23. Parkend Development Initiative
Solar water
Investment £2k (DIY)
Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI)
500 “free” showers (Worc. Bosch)

24. Parkend Development Initiative
Biomass heating
Local logs
Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI)
Investment 10k+ (Eco Angus)
Shared residential heating
Link: RHI calculator

25. Parkend Development Initiative
Biomass heating - 80kw + 1500ltr
+

26. Parkend Development Initiative
Local Employment
Community broadband
Micro enterprise support
Training for renewable industry
IT skills development
Investment in CDFIs
Link: BBC Village SOS project

27. Parkend Development Initiative
Affordable housing
Shared asset development (LLP)
Localism Bill rights
Natural growth
Eco development
Link: Capital partnerships

28. Parkend Development Initiative
Local Transport
Cycle track campaign
Community bus service
Car pooling
Lift sharing
Link: www.rideshare.co.uk

29. Parkend Development Initiative
Enhanced leisure
Community Plan response
Create new activities
Extend community building use
Funds from community company
Collaborate with Dean FS Centre

30. Parkend Development Initiative
Strengthen community
More events and activities
Shared investment and reward
Greater inclusion
Trust

31. Parkend Development Initiative
Trust, as a currency
“He who does not trust enough, Will not be
trusted” – Lao Tzu

32. Parkend Development Initiative
Compassion
People-Centered Economic Development is a Charter for
Compassion partner.
“Economics, and indeed human civilization, can only be measured
and calibrated in terms of human beings. Everything in economics
has to be adjusted for people, first, and abandoning the illusory
numerical analyses that inevitably put numbers ahead of people,
capitalism ahead of democracy, and degradation ahead of
compassion.
Each of us who have a choice can choose what we want to do to
help or not. It is free-will, our choice, as human beings.”
Link: Principles of People-Centered Economics