Resources for Everyone

Explore our free collection of downloadable resources. Access Planning Guides, Community Planning and Engagement Publications and our many resources on Participatory Budgeting.

See our 2023 Annual Report.

We also have a wide range of older publications in our archives.  Need additional resources not listed?  Contact us to start a conversation.

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Planning

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Guide to Community Involvement in Local Development Plans
This is an introductory guide to help people and communities who may wish to submit comments and representations to a Local Development Plan.
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Guide to Commenting on a Planning Application
This is an introductory guide to help communities and residents who may want to comment on a planning application.
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Guide to Planning and Housing in the Countryside
This is an introductory guide to help people and communities who may want to build housing in the countryside.
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Community Engagement

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Community Places – Guide to Engagement Methods (2024)
This guide signposts and provides details on the types of methods which may be most appropriate for achieving different levels of engagement.
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Engagement Tools in Response to COVID-19 (Community Places 2020)
During this unprecedented time changes have had to be made to how we engage with communities.
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Community and Voluntary Sector Representation in Community Planning Structures
The Carnegie UK Trust’s Embedding Wellbeing in Northern Ireland project provides support to enable Community Planning Partnerships to implement a local wellbeing outcomes approach.
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Community Planning

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Co-Production Symposium 2019 (Report)
As part of the support package, Community Places organised and facilitated a symposium open to all Community Planning partners.
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A Toolkit for Co-Production in Community Planning (2021)
This Toolkit is for practitioners in Community Planning. It has been developed as part of Carnegie UK “Embedding Wellbeing in NI” Project which provided financial and in-kind support to three Community Planning Partnerships to implement a wellbeing approach in their practice.
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Community Planning Toolkit – Working Together
This section of the Toolkit focuses on how the CVS (Community and Voluntary Sectors) can work with and influence other sectors in effective ways.
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Participatory Budgeting

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Move More and Eat Well to Feel Better PB
Learning from the recent Move More and Eat Well to Feel Better PB process in the Belfast City Council area
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PB World Atlas
PB from around the globe
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PB Charter for Scotland – Making good PB happen
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Annual Reports

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Annual Report 2024
Our Annual Report 2024
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Annual Report 2023
Our Annual Report 2023
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Annual Report 2022
Our Annual Report 2022
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Archive

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Ballintoy Village Plan
This Village Plan contains a collective vision of how people who live in, work and visit Ballintoy would like to see the village improve and develop over the next 5 years.
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Ballybeen Community Plan
This Development Plan for the Ballybeen area was produced between February and June, 2013.
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Braniel Community Plan
This Community Plan for Braniel has been developed by Braniel Community Association, working with Castlereagh Borough Council, the Housing Executive, local churches and other community groups in the Braniel area.
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