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National Cultural Planning Toolkit

A toolkit with model policies to assist local planning authorities and their partners to plan for cultural provision.

 

The National Cultural Planning Toolkit has been commissioned by Creative Estuary in partnership with Kent County Council.

It has been created by the Town and Country Planning Association (TCPA) and Urban Roots Consulting as a resource for cultural planning in England.

The phrase cultural planning is used to describe a process that supports place making through considering what arts and cultural infrastructure can be secured through development, redevelopment and the land use planning process.

This National toolkit, written by Planners for Planners, sets out the importance of local plan policies and good governance structures to enable the planned development of cultural infrastructure as an essential part of shaping local places where people and diverse communities can thrive.

The success of the toolkit depends on Town Planners in local authorities and development corporations, to work strategically with stakeholders and applicants to implement the policies and strategies.

Creative Estuary is available to provide further advice and support in the implementation of the National toolkit locally, and we are keen to hear from Town Planners on their experience of using this resource which will periodically updated.

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What the toolkit offers:

Developing cultural infrastructure requires a steady focused effort across long periods of time. The Cultural Planning Toolkit will help users navigate the deliverability of cultural infrastructure, and:

  • Manage: Offer a road map to fund, occupy and manage buildings, housing and cultural facilities across both short term (meanwhile) and long-term time horizons.
  • Enable: Enable local authorities, development corporations, developers and cultural organisations to take a different approach to assessing the financial feasibility of a particular site or location of development, and the process of engaging and co-designing with the local community.
  • Navigate: Provide a tool to navigate through the developer contributions process within local planning authorities.

Who the toolkit is for:

The users and audience for this work will be all those enabling the inclusion of the cultural and creative industries sector in regeneration schemes and built environment projects: local planning authorities, town planners, developers, property and asset managers, landowners, the creative sector, or agents working for any or all of them. This work will also be of use to investors, whether public, private, community ownership or joint ventures and will contribute to achieving the development objectives of local authorities and of government.

You can download the toolkit here: National Cultural Planning Toolkit

If you would like to discuss the toolkit or are interested in having us present a workshop to your team please email info@creativeestuary.com

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