We provide all the services required to deliver a community-led planning process from quotation to report – and beyond, for both Community Action Plans and Local Place Plans.
Process
A Local Place Plan process broadly consists of the following six stages.
A Community Action plan process follows the same steps but step 5 (Information Notice) is not required.
Place at the Table provides services at every stage of this process.
Local Place Plan Routemap
A 6 step journey
Project Management
Full project management to deliver a CAP, LPP (or both) over a 5-6 month period, designed in collaboration with the community from the ground up.
1. Foundations
Steering group facilitation and administration
Support to form and run a Steering Group to lead your process, including leading regular meetings and all administration and record keeping involved.
Engagement and marketing strategies
Design and implementation of engagement and marketing strategies.
Research
Research and collation of baseline data.
2. Engagement
Running community-wide surveys
Online and offline options to capture the way people are thinking about what needs to change and where, here and now. Click here to see an example survey we have run using Padlet.
LPP Workshop delivery and facilitation
Leading a variety of types of workshops to engage your community, in person and online options available. Discover a vision for the future using the 3 Horizons Framework (video here) or community-friendly versions of scenario planning. Sessions to crystalise concrete actions and next steps to move forward. Climate-focussed workshops to ensure that your plan is climate-ready.
3. Analysis
Data analysis
Analysing data gathered into thematic categories for assessment and discussion. Which ideas are potential projects for a CAP and which could be developed into spatial proposals for a LPP? Which ideas capture our vision for the future, which describe what is currently falling away or need preserved and which will move us from from now to the future? Which are quick wins, which are for the community to deliver, which are for the local authority alone and which need a partnered approach? We tend to organise data around the 14 Place Standard Themes which are instantly recognisable to funders and local and national government.
4. Develop Draft
Collaborative proposal development
Facilitation and mediation from a trained and experienced practitioner to help steward community conversations and decision-making. Use of creative tools for building consensus like finger voting and the human rainbow.
Planning advice
Expert planning advice from a chartered member of the Royal Town Planning Institute including: Writing planning statements to justify Local Place Plan proposals. In-depth knowledge of the Scottish Planning system, regulations and guidance around Local Place Plans.
Delivery Plans
Detailed design of delivery plans for Community Action Plans. First steps, lead and collaborative partners, quick wins, short-medium and long terms goals, indicative costs and milestone graphics.
Prioritisation using dotmocracy or Mentimeter ranking
5. Information Notice
Statutory Consultation delivery
Running the statutory consultation period (Information Notice) for a Local Place Plan.
6. Submission
Report production
Production of bright, attractive, professionally designed bespoke reports. Usually between 50 and 100 pages and detailing desired outputs of the process.
We can also provide:
- Support to write Invitations to Tender (ITTs) so that you can request quotations from us in a formal, structured way.
- Downstream support for you to evaluate the progress of your plan.
Other services
Training services
Training and coaching in all aspects of CAP and LPP delivery for groups who are committed to community-led delivery of their plans but who need additional external support to do so.
Planning statements
Writing planning statements to justify Local Place Plan proposals that have already been developed by a community-led process.
Other consultation work
Bespoke consultation packages and training packages for developers and the public sector.
For example: community engagement design and delivery for Pre-Application Consultations, Onshore Wind-farm developments, and Local Development Plan consultations.
As well as training packages in best practice for community engagement and skills in managing situations of conflict and tension.
Bespoke workshop design and delivery
Facilitation support and workshop design for organisations seeking to enable place-based conversations with multiple-stakeholders in the private, public or community sectors.
