Introduction

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The HIVE event is being designed to bring together neighbourhood planners actively engaged in the process to come together to discuss and share experience and knowledge. The event is being specifically designed to reflect the issues of importance to those attending and this pre-event questionnaire will help the organisers to better understand how best to shape the day and to ensure it meets the needs and priorities of those attending.

It should take approximately 30 minutes to complete and includes questions about you and your plan, your experiences of neighbourhood planning thus far - as well as what you would like to get out of the HIVE event.
                      
The questionnaire is organised across several short sections:

·         You and Neighbourhood Planning
·         The Plan
·         Relations and resources 
·         Consultant use and third-party support
·         Issues in neighbourhood planning 
·         Research and the HIVE event
·         Change and the implications for neighbourhood planning

The questionnaire is directed at all Neighbourhood Planning groups BUT the June HIVE event is primarily for those groups who have reached at least pre-submission stage.
 
If you are interested in the HIVE event but are not a community member active in neighbourhood planning, please do email us directly on: neighbourhoodplanning@reading.ac.uk as there may be a small number of places available for others.
 
The information provided in this pre-event questionnaire will help us to structure the day and ensure we focus on the issues and challenges identified as being of most importance. The day will centre around a series of ‘workshops’ and plenty of opportunity will also be provided for attendees to discuss and work through any particular issues or challenges their group is facing.

Following the event a report will be produced which summarises the key findings of the questionnaire, the discussions on the day, answers to any outstanding issues and sources of further information and advice – it will provide on practical advice to help groups progress their plan. This report will form the basis for us to continue engagement with and feedback to Central Government in order to inform future policy making.

Thank you in advance for your time.

The questionnaire has been designed by, and remains the intellectual property, of the University of Reading and is subject to copyright.

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