St Helens Council – Bold Forest Park AAP
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St Helens Council – Bold Forest Park AAP APPENDICES BOLD FOREST PARK – LOCAL BUSINESS AND COMMUNITY CONSULTATION REPORT (DRAFT) June 2012 6 St Helens Council – Bold Forest Park AAP APPENDIX 1 - CONSULTATION AND COMMUNICATION PLAN BOLD FOREST PARK – LOCAL BUSINESS AND COMMUNITY CONSULTATION REPORT (DRAFT) June 2012 7 Bold Forest Park Stakeholder and Community Consultation and Communications Plan 27th February 2012 Consultation Details Target Responsibilities Detailed actions Date Venue & Time Materials Comments Activity audience required required Prepare Issue Draft Stakeholder Steering URS to draft and 27 N/A N/A Stakeholder and and Communications Group and circulate for February Communications Strategy to Steering Bold Parish approval Plan Group Council Press Release: Press release informing Local URS to prepare CC has advised 20-22 Potential Websites Press Release – local people of the Community press release: Press Release March (TBC): content to be Local Press, upcoming consultation and wider material would approved by RR Social Media programme: NW RR to sign-off need to be with Timing to Bold Forest Park websites such as th community Press team 1 or 2 coincide (live for 20 March) St Helens th Council’s Press 20 March stakeholder days before with Facebook and Officer (Chris Mersey Forest and community session release, with stakeholde Twitter accounts Cahill) to distribute r/ business Easter Garden Stall Friday deadline St Helens Council for press consultatio website, (Easter weekend?) n event) coverage in the Bold Parish Community Bus Tour following week (21/22 April) Council Forestry Commission Press release will go to: St Helens Facebook and twitter account St Helens Star, St Helens Reporter, 1 Consultation Details Target Responsibilities Detailed actions Date Venue & Time Materials Comments Activity audience required required Local Radio, Regional Radio, Juice FM, Liverpool Post, Liverpool Echo Online Online questionnaire to Local URS to prepare Survey to Survey now questionnaire obtain community Community survey go live w/c live ‘live’ aspirations/ideas for the and wider 27th Feb area, discover NW St Helens to 2012 (Survey Monkey) community concerns community upload about the project and URS to monitor provide survey data for and analyse current non-users, to inform the economic intelligence gathering exercise. Poster and Posters and information Local URS to prepare Anita Hall (URS Distribute Venues: TBC Printed posters Leaflets leaflets to be put up in communities and distribute Graphic Designer) 21st March and leaflets advertising key community hubs (St Helens to prepare poster/ public advertising 20th March and local St Helens to info leaflet consultation stakeholder session, area) advise on suitable advertising key events Easter Garden and bus locations dates tour Rick to advise re suitable locations to distribute eg: leisure centre, supermarkets, GP surgeries, pubs, Post Offices, etc.) Confirm distribution arrangements 2 Consultation Details Target Responsibilities Detailed actions Date Venue & Time Materials Comments Activity audience required required Stakeholder Presentation of the Public and Bold Parish Issue invitations 20th March Venue: Leaf Council to Engagement three draft Masterplan private Council, St Helens, Center, Chester organise Workshop options by the Liverpool stakeholders URS, St Helens Council to book Lane refreshments University students to , business Chamber to agree room 6 – 8pm Materials seek feedback. community, invitation list URS to design third sector, required: Presentation of St Helens Council feedback forms local Flip boards, emerging findings of community to issue email Review student economic intelligence invitations paper and group presentations/ marker pens, gathering exercise to representati discuss seek feedback. projector and ves requirements – laptop General discussion on 13th March Masterplan the wider project and opportunity to promote options/visual the involvement of the material on large local community and display boards business Display boards representatives, the showing potential Third Sector and Forest Park statutory and public activities sector representatives in the APP process. Feedback forms Council to provide details of further opportunities to engage in the process. Community Bus tour to local Engagement Bus communities to Local Agree Steering Proposed 4 locations, ½ day Bus and driver communities Group volunteers dates: at each Tour establish interest in the Display boards project and seek in Bold to attend Saturday Proposed locations showing feedback. Forest Park exhibition th vicinity 14 April include: masterplan Source double- options and decker bus and Saturday potential 3 Consultation Details Target Responsibilities Detailed actions Date Venue & Time Materials Comments Activity audience required required driver 21st April Westbrook centre activities (use boards from 20th Agree locations Burtonwood – March session) and make Community Centre, arrangements Chapel House Inn Feedback forms or St Michaels Church Hall? Clockface – Four Acre Shopping Center or Clockface Hotel? Ravenhead Retail Park Bold Forest Park Exhibition stand will be St Helens URS making Liaison with local During the St Helens town Display boards Exhibition – set up demonstrating community arrangements with school to ask Easter centre showing activities the three Masterplan and St Helens Events students to make Holidays (use boards from St Helens Easter th Options developed by neighbourin team a ‘Dream’ head. TBC 20 March Garden 2 days the Liverpool University g authority session) students. Staff at the areas Liaison with local over exhibition will seek riding stables to easter Feedback forms find pony and weekend? feedback from visitors Pony and handler to the display material handler TBC and using feedback Liaison with local forms. businesses – Paper feedback forms advertising within (with free post exhibition? envelopes) will be Agree Steering available to complete or Group volunteers to take away and to attend complete. exhibition Local students to prepare artwork – large ‘Dream’ head or similar 4 Consultation Details Target Responsibilities Detailed actions Date Venue & Time Materials Comments Activity audience required required to exhibit Provide pony rides to demonstrate potential activities Local businesses to advertise services? End of Formal End of formal On-line survey to w/c 30th Consultation consultation close on this date April Period Presentation URS and Students to Steering URS/Liverpool Prepare 15th May TBC Powerpoint present the findings of Group University presentation presentation/Disp the consultation process Students lay boards and masterplan final options proposals to the Steering Group URS to submit Draft Submit Draft Community and Local Steering URS to prepare w/c 28th TBC Draft report in Community and Business Engagement Group draft report May 2012 electronic format Local Business Report to Steering Engagement Commentary from Group for comment Report Steering Group URS to complete Final Submit Final Draft Community and Steering w/c 25th Community and Local Business Group June 2012 Local Business Engagement, following Engagement receipt of collated Report comments from Steering Group 5 St Helens Council – Bold Forest Park AAP APPENDIX 2 - PRESS RELEASES BOLD FOREST PARK – LOCAL BUSINESS AND COMMUNITY CONSULTATION REPORT (DRAFT) June 2012 8 PRESS RELEASES FROM ST HELENS COUNCIL, ST HELENS CHAMBER AND MERSEY FOREST What a Bold idea One of St. Helens top visitor attractions is set to become even more popular. Bold Forest Park, home of Dream, is being put under the spotlight and examined to see how the area can deliver a range of benefits to local communities, visitors and to create business opportunities. St Helens Council, The Mersey Forest, St Helens Chamber, The Forestry Commission and the Bold Parish Council are preparing an Area Action Plan (AAP) to guide development of former colliery sites across the borough as well as Bold. The Bold Forest Park area is located to the south of St Helens, straddling the M62 between Junctions 7 and 8. Stretching across 1,800 and bisected by the M62, the main link between Manchester and Liverpool, there are around 2-million people living within a 30-mile drive of the proposed new Bold Forest Park. The plan will focus on areas of community woodland on the former collieries and surrounding agricultural land at Sutton Manor, Clock Face, Colliers Moss, Wheatacre, Maypole and Griffin Wood. It will examine how these areas can deliver a range of benefits for local communities and visitors from further afield. A particular aim will be to concentrate on the visitor economy and explore how to stimulate the expansion and diversification of existing businesses in the area as well as the attraction of new business opportunities sympathetic with the Forest Park. This work is at the early stages of development – building up an evidence base to support future proposals. St Helens Council has commissioned consultants URS to assist them in this process, by gathering “economic intelligence” about the area. The consultants have been conducting surveys and speaking to local and potential businesses about the potential of the area. The consultants are also assisting the council with community consultation to gather the community’s aspirations in relation to the future development of this area. The Council would like to discuss their early thoughts, findings and proposals with local people. Following stakeholder workshops in the area a series of