One week left to go for anyone wanting to comment on what should be included in their Local Plan Part 2 - in particular suggestions for potential Local Plan allocations for housing, employment, retail, open spaces, suitable alternative natural greenspace, or for mixed use development.
For more details click here on contact me for advice. Always good to get a foot in the door...
Monday, 20 April 2015
Thursday, 9 April 2015
Maps - planners can't live without them
Planning is very hard to do without maps, and ideally GIS
(geographic information systems) that allow you to add, remove and annotate
different layers over map or aerial photograph base. So I’m pleased to say that I am working in
partnership with Getmapping plc who supply a GIS system for Parish Councils called
Parish Online. This uses a normal web browser, and is therefore accessible, simple but effective. Any person in the neighbourhood
plan groups I am supporting (whose Parish Council have signed up to Parish
Online) can access not only a full range of Ordnance Survey mapping and aerial
photography, but also the various layers provided by organisations like Natural
England, English Heritage and the Environment Agency, including flooding,
Listed Building, nature conservation sites and more. And of course, then add their own layers - new sites, key views, local green spaces and much more.
First use of this software was for the Loders Neighbourhood Plan near Bridport in Dorset – you can see examples of maps at the end of the document and an aerial overlay on page 19. I should have some more examples published shortly which I will link to in due course.
First use of this software was for the Loders Neighbourhood Plan near Bridport in Dorset – you can see examples of maps at the end of the document and an aerial overlay on page 19. I should have some more examples published shortly which I will link to in due course.
Contact me if you are interested in trialling this
software, or need some help with mapping for your project.
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