Community Led Plans

The Government wants local communities to have more control of their own lives, to say what they want in their own community or parish and to work with other organisations to get it done.

Community Led Planning is a step-by-step structured process, taken on by local community activists, to create a vision for a community and an action plan to achieve it.  The process involves using a mix of evidence collection, different types of consultation and debate at the very local neighbourhood level.  It is designed to be a process in which each and every citizen can participate and results in very high levels of participation. The resulting vision covers the social, economic, environmental and cultural well-being of the community and all those who live and work there.

Community Led Planning is now the aspiration within government policy for all communities.  It is central to the challenge presented to local government in building empowered communities everywhere.  As a result, the framework underpinning Community Led Planning is increasingly being implemented in urban neighbourhoods as an effective way of stimulating local action and making the connections with statutory plans and the agencies required to deliver them.

ACRE has produced a standalone website for Community Led Planning which can be accessed using the link below.  The site includes information on how the CLP approach allows local people to decide their own future, how local government can build on the energies of local residents to engage with local communities and the many benefits such an approach has for all those concerned with making community empowerment a reality

Visit our CLP website

www.communityledplanning.com