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Referendum Date Annoucement (Thu 3 Oct)

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!

The Perranzabuloe NDP is heading for referendum

“The Examiners Report is Published”

2024-07-22

The Perranzabuloe Neighbourhood Development Plan has been modified according to the Examiner’s recommendations.

Cornwall Council have put the updated documents on their Planning Portal

The plan will now progresses to referendum.

PerranPlan.co.uk Website visitors from 1st January 2019 to 30 June 2023

We can see from the Google Analytics that the www.PerranPlan.co.uk Website has been visited.

We can see spikes around various stages when the Steering Group did all they can to raise awareness as to the evolution of the plan.

The Steering Group feel this shows that the promotion of the plan via:

Surveys and letters to all households in the parish.
Notices on parish notice boards, shops, cafe’s etc
Facebook notices (our own Facebook page and the 2 main Facebook groups for the parish).
Public events
Speaking at Parish Council meetings
Articles in local publications (Around Piran)
Posters
etc.

Did make those in our parish aware of the plan and it’s progress.

Website visitor charts from the 1st of January 2019 to the end of June 2023, when the plan is entering stages 15 & 16.

First the daily chart:

and then the (smooths the spikes out) weekly chart:

Steering Group meetings in late 2022 and 2023

From July 2022 until Regulation 15 in late June 2023, Steering Group meetings were Zoom meetings going through the comments from Regulation 14 and the supplementary consultation.

The key participants were:

Stuart Todd – consultant
Rory Jenkins – chairman
William Rogers – secretary
Kevin Havil
Roger Kayes
Philip Moore

Phillip Henwood attended many, but below half of these meetings. His input was still invaluable.

As all of what was being discussed was being logged in the comments document, minutes weren’t taken.

The dates were:

5 July 2022
6 July 2022
13 July 2022
14 July 2022
26 July 2022
28 July 2022
2 Aug 2022
6 Sep 2022
21 Sep 2022
4 Oct 2022
3 Nov 2022
10 Nov 2022
7 Dec 2022
15 Dec 2022
10 Jan 2023
10 Feb 2023
16 Mar 2023
22 Mar 2023 – post the mini consultation
29 Mar 2023 – presentation to the parish council (full update)
4 Apr 2023
12 Apr 2023
18 Apr 2023
20 Apr 2023
25 Apr 2023
4 May 2023
11 May 2023
18 May 2023
15 Jun 2023 – final review of documents for Regulation 15

Parish Council Update meeting – 29 March 2023

We organised an Zoom update meeting for the parish council.

Perranzabuloe NDP Mailchimp subscriber statistics

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.
2019-06-12 177
2019-05-09 174
2019-04-02 174
2019-02-26 154
2019-01-09 152, +23 in the last 30 days

Supplementary consultation on proposed changes – publicity

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.

Publicity on the local Facebook Groups

Public Exhibition Posters

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.

The image below is a collage of 4 of the posters.

Publicity & initial responses re Regulation 14 has begun.

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:

We are in the home straight with Regulation 14 about to start

We are about to start the Pre-submission (Regulation 14) stage of our Neighbourhood Development Plan (NDP).

Regulation 14 will run for 6 weeks from Friday the 22nd of April until Friday the 17th of June.
All of the documents for this stage are on our, documents page.
As a part of Regulation 14, we will be having public exhibitions:
- Goonhavern Community Centre (TR4 9NW)
  Friday 22nd April 7:00 pm – 9:30 pm
  Saturday 23rd April 10:00 am – 12:30 pm
- Perranporth Parish Council Rooms (TR6 0DB)
  Monday 25th April 7:00 pm – 9:30 pm
  Tuesday 26th April 10:00 am – 12:30 pm
We’ve sent an email out to the 155 on our email list and put posts on the main Facebook groups in the parish and our own Facebook group:
- https://www.facebook.com/groups/PerranzabuloeNDP

How we got here and what Next?

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.)