Toolbox

The Neighbourhood Planning Workshop is a collaborative session to kickstart the development of the Neighbourhood Plan, inviting key actors identified in the stakeholder mapping exercise in the previous activity. The workshop can take place in one or two days, according to the time availability and the capacity of the technical team and participants.

In the first part of the workshop, participants discuss and validate the defined neighbourhood boundary, and the data gathering and analysis performed in the Detailed Data Gathering and Analysis (Activity 31). Then, the vision, goals, and targets of the city are presented. Participants discuss how they can be applied to the neighbourhood scale and select specific goals and targets that will be included in the Neighbourhood Plan. 

The second part of the workshop consists of reviewing the Strategic Development Plan and defining the land use to co-design a conceptual scheme for the neighbourhood, including streets, Blocks, public spaces, infrastructure, etc. This exercise should consider the five principles for sustainable neighbourhood planning: adequate space for streets and an efficient street network, high density, mixed land-use, social mix, and limited land-use specialisation (more information can be found in Additional Resources).

Participants:
Technical team, the community and relevant stakeholders regarding the selected neighbourhood.