Introducing the possibility of a community planning project at the Coastal Regeneration Research Centre in Hastings, April 2009.

1. Community planning
Hastings and Rother
Inspiration
and
possibilities

2. Today
• Taster for possible project on Community
Planning at University College Hastings.
• Opportunity - link between local initiatives
and The Community Planning Website
• Some examples of local community planning
• Ideas from elsewhere

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Community Planning =
‘Planning carried out with the
active participation of the
end users.’
(Community Planning Website)
Definition

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Community Planning =
‘Planning carried out with the
active participation of the
end users.’
(Community Planning Handbook, 2000)
Definition

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Launched 2001 – consistent search engine favourite
www.communityplanning.net

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 Principles
Apply to almost any situation. Worldwide applicability
 Methods
Huge menu of different techniques and
approaches
new ways of people interacting | new types of event |
new support frameworks
 Scenarios and Case Studies
How
one can use a combination of methods in a particular
Community Planning framework

7. Here are some methods
that have been used
locally in recent years

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Consultation month
• November 2002
• Joint initiative by key agencies
• Over 4,000 people engaged in over 35
events - meetings, briefings,
workshops
• Over 1,250 written contributions
containing over 150,000 words

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Information
brochures…

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Tick boxTick box andand
open ended questionsopen ended questions
…with integrated questionnaires

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post boxes and postage paid

12. Staffed
exhibitions
• Bexhill Future Exhibition 2003
• Hastings Future. Exhibition at
Tescos, Hollington, 2002
• Hastings Local Development
Framework, Priory Meadow, 2008

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SpeakOut
workshop
St Leonards Housing Renewal Area, 2003

14. Models
Stade Masterplan / Jerwood Gallery 2008,
Bridge Community Centre 2004

15. Regeneration
Centres
• Robertson Street, 2002
• Hollington, 2002

16. Action planning weekend
Ore Valley, 1997

17. Ideas competition
for everyone, judged by everyone
• Pics from CP show
• Pic now
Butlers Gap, George Street, 1991

18. Planning workshop - onsite
Wallingers Walk Garden, West Hill, 1991

19. Learning from nearby
Eastbourne schools art and architecture project 2006

20. Learning from afar
21st
Century Town Meeting, USA

21. Learning from afar
21st
Century Town Meeting, USA

22. Learning from afar
21st
Century Town Meeting, USA

23. Learning from afar

24. Hastings Community
Planning Project –
some agenda ideas
• Paper and web archives and resources
• Identify what has worked well and what
might work well for local regeneration?
• Training
• Project support

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Nick Wates Associates
Creative Media Centre, 45
Robertson Street, Hastings
TN34 1HL
01424 205446
nick@nickwates.co.uk
www.nickwates.co.uk
Peter Ambrose
University of Brighton,
01273 643914
ambrose@solutionsinc.co.uk
Andrew Church
University of Brighton,
01273 642288
a.church@bton,ac.uk
Thanks for listening
Comments and
suggestions welcome