CONSULTATION STATEMENT March 2021
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CONSULTATION STATEMENT March 2021 Please consider the environment before printing this document Consultation Statement Page: 2 of 134 10 March 2021 Table of Contents 1 Introduction 6 1.1 Introduction 6 1.2 Aims 6 2 List of Consultations undertaken 7 3 Individual Consultations 9 3.1 Announcement of proposal for a Neighbourhood Plan – May 2016 9 3.1.1 Outcomes: 9 3.2 Household Survey Preliminary work – November 2016 9 3.3 Household Survey - January 2017 9 3.3.1 Key issues identified from the results: 9 3.3.2 Action Taken: 10 3.4 Presentation at Annual Parish Meeting – May 2017 10 3.5 Liaison with Hertfordshire Constabulary – September 2017 10 3.6 Liaison with Scout & Guide Group – October 2017 10 3.7 Knebworth Youth Project (youth club) – October 2017 10 3.8 Children Centre provision (Early Years 0-5) – November 2017 11 3.9 Safety and Security - Neighbourhood Watch – September 2017 11 3.10 Hertshelp service – December 2017 11 3.11 Adjacent Parish Newsletters – December 2016 to date 12 3.12 Surgery Practice Manager – September 2017 to date 12 3.13 Patient Participation Group – September 2017 to date 12 3.14 Community Library Committee – September 2017 to date 12 3.15 Knebworth Guide Group – September 2017 to date 12 3.16 Chairman of Knebworth Football Club – September 2017 to date 13 3.17 Great Ashby parking survey – March 2018 13 3.18 Housing Needs Survey – April 2018 13 3.19 Public Open Days – 19th and 21st April 2018 13 3.19.1 Publicity 13 3.19.2 Posters 13 3.19.3 Key issues raised: 15 3.20 Presentation at Annual Parish Meeting – May 2018 16 3.21 Sport & Leisure Survey – June 2018 16 3.22 Schools Engagement – 19th June 2018 16 Consultation Statement Page: 3 of 134 10 March 2021 3.23 Local Business Survey – July 2018 17 3.23.1 Main issues raised: 17 3.24 Local Councillor Surgery – 14th July 2018 17 3.25 Meeting with local councillor – 17th July 2018 17 3.26 Youth Focus Group - 18th October 2018 18 3.27 Knebworth Parking Survey – October 2018 18 3.28 Meeting with main Landowners – 14th November 2018 18 3.29 Estate Agent survey – December 2018 18 3.30 Meeting with main Landowners – 31st January 2019 19 3.31 Meeting with main Landowners – 1st March 2019 19 3.32 Public Open Day – 2nd March 2019 19 3.32.1 Publicity 19 3.32.2 Format 19 3.32.3 Outcomes 21 3.33 Presentation at Annual Parish Meeting – 1st May 2019 23 3.34 Meeting with NHDC Senior Planning Officer – 29th May 2019 23 3.35 Review of Consultation Statement – 10th July 2019 23 3.36 Regulation 14 Consultation – March to May 2020 24 3.36.1 Background 24 3.36.2 Delivery 24 3.36.3 Responses 25 3.36.4 Analysis of Responses 25 3.36.5 Statistics 26 3.37 Action Plan 26 Appendix A Household Survey 27 Appendix B Text of Parish Meeting Presentation 29 Appendix C Great Ashby Parking Survey 30 Appendix D Great Ashby Parking Survey Data 31 Appendix E Housing Needs Survey 32 Appendix F Housing Needs Survey data 36 Appendix G Example of Open Day displays 37 Appendix H Sport and Leisure Survey 38 Appendix I Agenda for Pupil Parliament Exercise 40 Appendix J Local Business Survey 41 Appendix K Business Survey Graphs and Summary 43 Appendix L Young People’s Survey 45 Consultation Statement Page: 4 of 134 10 March 2021 Appendix M Knebworth Parking Survey Output 47 Appendix N Estate Agent Survey 50 Appendix O Feedback from Open Day 51 Appendix P Responses from Regulation 14 Consultation resulting in an amendment 52 Appendix Q Action Plan 125 Table of figures Figure 1 Presentation to Youth Project .......................................................................................................... 11 Figure 2 Engagement exercise ........................................................................................................................... 11 Figure 3 Open Day Poster .................................................................................................................................... 14 Figure 4 Local newspaper article ..................................................................................................................... 14 Figure 5 Example title strip for display ......................................................................................................... 14 Figure 6 Example of displays ............................................................................................................................. 15 Figure 7 Visitors at the Open Day ..................................................................................................................... 15 Figure 8 Members of the Steering Committee engaging with visitors. ............................................. 16 Figure 9 Display of policies ................................................................................................................................. 20 Figure 10 Map showing Views and Vistas..................................................................................................... 20 Figure 11 Map showing adjacent developments ........................................................................................ 21 Figure 12 Trays for sign-in and feedback ..................................................................................................... 21 Figure 13 Layout of displays .............................................................................................................................. 22 Figure 14 KNP Vision Statement....................................................................................................................... 22 Figure 15 Youth Forum Display ........................................................................................................................ 22 Figure 16 Display of policies .............................................................................................................................. 22 Table of tables Table 1 List of Consultations Undertaken ....................................................................................................... 7 Consultation Statement Page: 5 of 134 10 March 2021 1 Introduction 1.1 Introduction This Consultation Statement has been prepared to fulfil the legal obligations of the Neighbourhood Planning Regulations 2012. Section 15(2). Part 5 of the Regulations sets out what a Consultation Statement should contain: (a) Contains details of the persons and bodies who were consulted about the proposed neighbourhood development plan; (b) Explains how they were consulted; © Summarises the main issues and concerns raised by the persons consulted; (d) Describes how these issues and concerns have been considered and, where relevant, addressed in the proposed neighbourhood development plan. 1.2 Aims The aims of the Knebworth Neighbourhood Plan consultation process were: To involve as much of the community as possible throughout all consultation stages of Plan development so that the Plan was informed by the views of local people and other stakeholders from the start of the Neighbourhood Planning process; To ensure that consultation events took place at critical points in the process where decisions needed to be taken; To engage with as wide a range of people as possible, using a variety of approaches and communication and consultation techniques; and To ensure that results of consultation were fed back to local people and available to read (in both hard copy and via the Steering Group’s website) as soon as possible after the consultation events. Consultation Statement Page: 6 of 134 10 March 2021 2 List of Consultations undertaken Table 1 List of Consultations Undertaken Key Communication Point Format Date(s) 1 Announcement of proposal to Annual Parish Meeting May 2016 develop a Neighbourhood Plan 2 Initial survey – ballot box locations Individual Interview Nov 2016 3 Survey of households Direct mail to all households Jan 2017 4 Presentation of purpose of plan Parish meeting May 2017 5 Safer Neighbourhood Team Face to face meetings with Sep 2017 PCSOs 6 Scout & Guide Group Online, email, telephone and Oct 2017 face to face 7 Youth Project Online, email, telephone and Oct2017 face to face 8 Children Centre provision Online, email, telephone and Nov2017 face to face 9 Safety and Security – Online research Nov 2017 Neighbourhood Watch 10 Hertshelp service Face to face meeting Dec 2017 11 Adjacent Parish Newsletters Progress reports sent Dec 2017 to present 12 GP Practice Manager Regular face to face meetings Sep 2017 to present 13 Patient Participation Group Regular face to face meetings Sep 2017 to present 14 Community Library Committee Regular face to face meetings Sep 2017 to present 15 Knebworth Guide Group Regular face to face meetings Sep 2017 to present 16 Knebworth Football Club Chairman Email and occasional face to Sep 2017 to present face meetings 17 Great Ashby parking survey Face to Face residents Mar 2018 18 Housing Needs Survey Direct mail to all households Apri2018 19 Presentation of Vision and Public open days Apr 2018 objectives Consultation Statement Page: 7 of 134 10 March 2021 20 Presentation of Vision and Annual Parish Meeting May 2018 objectives 21 Sport & Leisure Survey e-mail survey Jun 2018 22 Schools Engagement Presentation and meeting Jun 2018 23 Business Survey Individual Interview Jul 2018 24 Councillor Lisa Nash surgery Public surgery Jul 2018 25 Councillor Steve Deakin-Davies Face to face meeting Jul 2018 26 Youth Focus Group Workshop Oct 2018 27 Parking Survey Observation of trends Oct 2018 28 Landowners’ Meeting Face to face meeting Nov 2018 29 Estate Agent survey Individual Interview Dec 2018 30