After many years of hard work by the NDP Steering Group, the Neighbourhood Development Plan (NDP) for Perranporth goes to Referendum on Thursday 3 October.
A copy of the NDP (and other associated documents) will be available to view at the Parish Council Offices and the Library. There is more information on our website www.perranzabuloe-pc.gov.uk. Anyone, on 3 October can vote in a residential referendum if they are entitled to vote in an election of any ward councillor of Perranzabuloe Parish Council whose ward is in the referendum area and whose qualifying address for the election is in the referendum area.
Notices will be on all parish noticeboards and on the website. The Neighbourhood Development Plan is the Community’s plan. It represents the Community’s vision and priorities for how they would like to see the local area change in the coming years, and in doing so it sets out our local planning policies which will be taken into account as and when any proposals for development come forward in the Parish. It is therefore important that you vote!
From fairly early on the Perranzabuloe NDP has had a Mailchimp account to email update those who via the Website or otherwise gave us their email details for updates. We’ve kept a log of the “Mailchimp audience” numbers (see list below).
The Mailchimp system let us track how many people opened emails we sent out. For example in January 2023 we sent an email out regarding the “Supplementary consultation on proposed changes to the NDP”. From that we could see that:
150 received the email
219 total opens (so some recipients opened the email more than once).
98 opened it
9 clicked links in it
5 of the emails bounced
1 person usubscribed from the list.
Historic Mailchimp Subscriber Statistics
2023-03-28 153
2023-01-27 150
2022-09-04 174
2022-05-05 154, seems a few unsubscribe post recent mailshots
2022-03-04 178
2021-10-22 171
2021-07-17 178
2021-05-26 171
2021-04-14 177
2021-01-18 177
2020-12-15 177
2020-10-17 173
2020-07-22 173
2020-05-21 173
2020-03-16 173
2020-02-10 173
2020-01-09 172
2019-11-26 172
2019-07-12 173, did a mail out re the survey, so probably got some unsubscribes.
Supplementary consultation on proposed changes to the NDP (8 weeks from 19th Jan to 2nd Mar ’23)
Notice of the supplementary consultation was sent to all those we had historically email contacted and any person or organisation that had emailed us during the Regulation 14 consulttation.
It was also publicised on the 2 main local Facebook Groups and our own Facebook page. Screenshots of this are below.
The Website traffic went up, so we could see people were looking at the supplementary consultation.
We’ve had 4 great public exhibitions. Fantastic to have so many visitors with their questions. We got a lot of positive feedback, including that the posters conveyed a lot of the key information.
We know that not everybody could make these events, and some will want to look again at the posters, so we are putting them here as PDFs.
The 2 PDFs are the same posters, but at reasonable and high resolution to cater for those on slower internet connections. Not everybody will want to zoom in on the maps etc.
On the 11th of April a letter was sent out to 3009 residential addresses in the parish, with a 3-5 day delivery window. Easter weekend got in the way and it got to most on Tuesday the 19th, where our Regulation 14 consultation period starts on Friday the 22nd and ends 8 weeks later on Friday the 17th of June.
We also:
Put notices on all of the parish notice boards and many shops in the parish. This was done over the weekend of the 10th & 11th of April.
On the 19th of April we emailed the 155 email addresses on our email list (this is mostly from the form on the Contact page on our Website).
As of 11:30 am on the 23rd of April, 150 of the emails were delivered, 94 people have opened the email and 12 have clicked links in the email.
On the 19th of April we put notices on the 2 main Facebook groups in our Parish and our own Facebook page.
On the Facebook “Please listen Perranzabuloe Parish Council” group we have (as of 22:30 on the 24rd of April) had 901 “post reaches” from one post about this and 383 from another.
Our Facebook Page has had 180+ people see just one of the posts about the events.
We don’t have access to the reach stats for the Perranzabuloe Community Group, but the post has resulted in comments and Facebook likes, so it is being seen.
As the events progressed we put ongoing posts to the Facebook groups, which got comments and further views to further spread the word and hopefully get more people to attend the remaining exhibitions.
Cover letter and Summary Leaflet sent to all households in the parish
Saturday morning exhibition in Goonhavern
Saturday afternoon. Having taken down the exhibition in Goonhavern, putting it up in Perranporth for the Monday & Tuesday events.
Monday evening in Perranporth. Great public turn out.
And the busiest slot, in terms of visitors was Tuesday morning:
At the start of 2022, we sent a letter to all households in our parish and also contact the Parish Council and Cornwall Council to comment on our DRAFT NDP. Our impression from direct comments from our Parish Council, Cornwall Council and the consultants we are using is that it has been well drafted such that only limited improvements were needed for the version that is the Pre-submission (Regulation 14) version.
We have started receiving public comments on the DRAFT NDP, which we are keeping to consider post the 17th of June (when the Regulation 14 period ends). The NDP preparation process requires the Steering Group to maintain and submit to the Examiner a compilation of comments submitted during consultation and the decisions the Steering Group take in response. Some of the comments are likely to result in further changes to our NDP. This compilation of comments and decisions will be published on our website and the Cornwall Council website.
Post that the plan will go through “Regulation 15/16” (submission) consultation run by Cornwall Council, followed by an external Examination and public referendum on whether or not the plan should be adopted by Cornwall Council for use in the planning system.
We anticipate the referendum being in the Autumn of 2022.
(2022-10 update, we now anticipate the referendum being late 2022 or early 2023.)
In late 2021 we prepared a 2 page update letter that was posted to all households in the parish.
The text of this letter is below. A PDF copy of the letter is here.
This lead to a predictable increase in visitors numbers to the www.perranplan.co.uk NDP Website.
March 2022 update:
You can see from the chart below that over time, site visitor numbers returned to the sub 10 a day after the letter update:
Looking longer term, there are peaks and troughs to Website visitor numbers.
Text of the letter sent out to all households in January 2022:
UPDATE ON THE PERRANZABULOE NEIGHBOURHOOD DEVELOPMENT PLAN
To all Residents and Businesses in Perranzabuloe Parish
Introduction
Perranzabuloe Parish Council initiated work on a Neighbourhood Development Plan (NDP) for the Parish in November 2017.
An NDP, when adopted (or “made”), sits alongside the Cornwall Council Local Plan. This means that its policies carry real weight (i.e., have “teeth”) in the planning system, with its recommendations and policies being used to help determine planning applications within the Parish.
The community and business surveys were undertaken in the Summer of 2019 by the NDP Steering Group (which comprises of volunteer members of the local community and Parish Councillors). Subsequently, they have been busy working on the content of the draft NDP.
Work has included undertaking studies and completing factual information on topics including, but not limited to, housing, settlement boundaries, heritage, local green spaces and landscape value. This work is important to support the planning policies in the draft NDP. Using Government funding, they have also commissioned, two documents which will form part of the NDP itself, namely a Design Code for the Parish to ensure that any future housing development in the future meets local requirements for design, and a Masterplan for Perranporth. This identifies key project proposals that could come forward to enhance the village centre, and its role in supporting the local economy, as well as the needs of local residents and visitors alike.
Where are we now?
There will be a full public consultation in the Spring of 2022. You, as residents and businesses of the Parish, will get the opportunity to discuss the NDP with the Steering Group members who have led the work. You will also be able to comment on the NDP’s content. Assuming there are no Covid-19 restrictions in place there will be a public exhibition. The draft NDP has been sent to Cornwall Council for an initial review and to consider if the NDP requires any further sustainability tests to meet Government planning regulations. The consultation in the Spring will also give us the opportunity to consult a mandatory list of statutory and strategic consultees outside of the Parish.
The NDP is the Community’s Plan and it is therefore important that the NDP continues to be shaped by your views as well as the studies and earlier consultations undertaken. We encourage you to look at the draft NDP, as well as the Design Code, Masterplan, and the accompanying evidence base studies. All documents are available on the project website at www.perranplan.co.uk/documents/.
If you have any comments to make on the NDP prior to the full public consultation in the Spring, the NDP Steering Group will be happy to hear from you:
Pre 2021-11-01 meeting notes for a presentation to the Perranzabuloe Parish Council to give them an update:
Getting Here
We started in late 2017, getting our required formal Cornwall Council Designation on the 29th November 2017.
Our 2018 to 2019 meetings tended to have 10 or more members of the Steering Group and 2 or 3 others.
Early meetings we had 20+ attendees and most of the 14 Steering Group members.
Over time, we lost several key contributors, and took on some key consultants who’s contributions have been
invaluable. Most important has been Stuart Todd of Stuart Todd Associates Ltd & Lucy Wilson Richards of Tirwel.
We’ve had consistent, support and help from our Perranzabuloe Parish Council, in particular the parish clerk,
Tatiana Cant.
We’ve had amazing support, work, help and input from so many.
The core group of volunteers that attended almost all meetings since 2017, that have done the most work, are
listed, alphabetically below. If this core had not stuck with it, the project would have collapse.
o Kevin Havill
o Phil Moore
o Phillip Henwood
o Roger Kayes
o Rory Jenkins
o William Rogers
Achievement Summary
An NDP lays out what we can evidence the community wants in terms of nudging the planning process to protect what the
community values and sees as special.
It looks to enhance existing provision of facilities and assets and provide support for additional facilities and development
subject to being a response to demand and local needs, while ensuring that there is no adverse impact on the things that
are valued the most in our natural and built environments.
The main 120 page document covers many themes including:
Climate Change
Sustainable Development
Waste, including waste water
Design
Natural Environment, Landscape and Coastal Management
Identifying and protecting the environment, including,
Settlement gaps & green buffers
Local Green Spaces, Views & Vistas
Coastal Change Management Plan
Heritage Assets and the Historic Environment. Identifying and giving protection to these.
Traffic & Transport including parking
Business, Employment and Retail, including Tourism
Headline Policies
Primary Residence Policy
If successful, on for the Parish Council planning group to keep an eye on re applications.
Settlement Boundaries around Perranporth, Bolingey & Goonhavern.
Development outside of these areas will meet more challenging requirements.
Policy 8 in the Cornwall Local Plan says 6+ dwellings must contribute toward affordable housing need. From 6‐10 units, a
financial contribution in lieu of on‐site provision will be acceptable, from 11 upwards, must contribute to meeting affordable
housing.
Policy 9, Rural Exceptions Sites, there is no size limit to which the policy for 50% affordable housing applies.
Headline Documents
Perranzabuloe Design Code
Perranporth Strategic Masterplan
All Policies
The 120 page main document has all of the detail.
The consultation summary leaflet has a cut down version of all the policies, where the section headings are:
• Sustainable Development
• Housing
• Natural Environment, Landscape and Coastal Management
• Energy and Wastewater
• Traffic and Transport
• Leisure & Wellbeing
• Heritage Assets and the Historic Environment
• Business, Employment and Retail
• Tourism
