WHO’S WHO IN YORKSHIRE AND HUMBER York CVS 14 March 2013 Rosie Seymour Localities Lead for North Yorkshire and York

Localities Manager role Work with local areas to: Develop practical relationships to ensure that local areas have a way to ensure honest and regular dialogue, support and signposting where necessary to central Government. And ensure that DCLG has the intelligence and level of engagement with local areas that we need to inform policy. The role also helps us shape things like Ministerial visits and parliamentary responses, and enables us to explain policy and opportunities to local areas.

A whirlwind of change Budget Reductions Localism, Localism, Localism Welfare Reform Business Rates Retention LEPs, local growth funding & City Deals Troubled Families Health & Wellbeing Academies & Free Schools

Local Government Response Mix of measures: - making efficiencies - organisation change - streamlining back office - outsourcing - service transformation Prioritising adult social care and children’s services Reducing (disproportionately) planning, housing and central services Cutting discretionary functions Mike to insert chart

Where next: through to April 2013

What Next? – A New Financial Relationship Formula Grant funding and if the rate retention model already in place (including police) Locally based funding – c. 60% to c.80%

Moody’s downgrading of the UK economy. Taking longer to climb out of debt with slow GDP growth Continuing reductions in public sector spending since 2010 “emergency” budget Autumn Statement set a spending envelope for : total spending will fall at same rate as in SR10. Within that, capital spending will grow in line with inflation from onwards. Will look for total additional savings of at least £10 billion. 26 June announcement. Fiscal consolidation and Spending Round 2013

The Strategic Context for communities Huge wealth of knowledge, experience and expertise in local communities that is not being tapped into. Local communities know what’s best for them and their community, it makes sense to use that knowledge, experience and expertise for the community good Financial climate is difficult and will remain so for the next few years Innovation is needed to do more and better with less Our role as central government is an enabler: enthusing, informing, networking and supporting communities

Governance and Accountability Powers to Communities Freedom over governance structures Transparency Autonomy for local government Freedom to act (General Power of Competence) Greater control over finance Freedoms for Cities Right to Bid (Assets of community value) Right to Challenge Right to Build Neighbourhood Planning Localism Act What difference does it make?

What does it do? Neighbourhood plans help local communities to have a much greater say in how the areas that they live and work in develop and grow. Neighbourhood planning gives the right to parish councils or designated neighbourhood forums to produce a Neighbourhood Plan or Neighbourhood Development Order or both. How? Once a Neighbourhood Plan is brought into force after a referendum it becomes part of the statutory development plan for the local area and is part of the basis for deciding planning applications in that area. A Neighbourhood Development Order will automatically grant planning permission for development proposals which comply with the order. Neighbourhood Planning

Myth busting: Neighbourhood planning is not..... A way to stop development happening Only for rural areas and parish councils A system which requires the production of very comprehensive technical plans – neighbourhood plans can be as concise or as comprehensive as communities want and address just a few simple concerns or a range of very complex planning issues A legal requirement – it is a right which communities can choose to exercise Neighbourhood planning is..... An opportunity to shape the development of a local area by producing a plan with real statutory weight An opportunity to turn ambitions into reality through a development order An opportunity to build new and improve existing partnerships

Neighbourhood Community Budgets – supporting areas to redesign services Parish Councils Ilfracombe; Haverhill; VCS Queens Park; Little Horton (Bradford); Poplar (Tower Hamlets); Castle Vale (Birmingham); Balsall Heath (Birmingham) Local Authorities Cowgate, Kenton Bar & Montague (Newcastle) White City; Norbiton; Sherwood (Tunbridge Wells); Shard End (Birmingham); TypeNeighbourhoodThemes Troubled families; Health & well being; Community assets; Housing; Worklessness; Social enterprise; Local Economic Growth; Anti social behaviour; Gang violence;

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