1. Steering Group or Management Team

• finance and resources
• information gathering
• parish council liaison
• local planning authority liaison
• organise publication and launch

2. Drafting

• compiling draft text
• assembling photos and illustrations
• identifying need for information and technical advice
• editing and revising text
• overall design and format

3. Consultation

• local progress reports
• articles, talks and exhibitions
• special activities, eg school work
• organise public consultation on drafts

The Steering Group don’t always do all the work by themselves, but they do coordinate the work by drawing in skills and time from other members of the community.

The most important person of the Parish Plan

& Design Statement Group is often the Chairman.

Their role is often purely one of coordination

and mediation. They hold the group together

and keep momentum going. They tend not

to get involved in the actual PP&DS work.

A key principle of the PP&DS is that it is a

Consultative document and as such should

involve as many Sandgate people as

possible - this project will also take

considerable time, resource and teamwork

to complete in a quality way. It would

seem, therefore, logical to set up a number

of teams who would be responsible for a

specific group of tasks.

The Work Groups leaders are listed HERE

Normally a Parish Plan & Design Statement group is established which consists of a core group of 6 - 12 people that is separate from but supported by the Parish Council. Various methods exist to draw in further support from the community. Sometimes this takes the form of a village character workshop where local views are sought on settlement character, buildings and landscape.