PLANNING AND GROWTH
Steve QuartermainChief Planner
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PlanningApplications& Decisions(LAs)469,000
Neighbourhood Plans
NDO
(Optional)
Local Plan / LDO
OUTCOMES (88% approved)
Yes
Appeals &Decisions(PINS)15,982
No
SoS Recovered Appeals 219
Plan Making
a
SofScall-incases 20
Decision taking
Overview of the planning system
National Policy and Guidance
NPPF
“presumption in favour of sustainable development”
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Core Planning Principles
• Proactively drive and support sustainable economic development to deliver the homes, business and industrial units, infrastructure and thriving local places that the country needs. Every effort should be made objectively to identify and then meet the housing, business and other development needs of an area, and respond positively to sider opportunities for growth.
• The Government is committed to ensuring that the planning system does everything it can to support sustainable economic growth.
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Strategic change: overview
NPPF and Guidance Review
Presumption in favour of
sustainable development
Growth and Infrastructure Act
Localism Act
Strong protections still in place
Unblocking stalled sites
Tackling LA poor
performance
Neighbourhood Planning
Regional Strategy
revocation
Robust Evidence of
need and 5 year land supply
Duty to cooperate
SimpleLocal Sustainable
Proportionate Effective
Deregulation and
Simplification
Information requirements
Speeding up appeals
Award of costs
Permitted development
rights
6000 page s of guidance
reduced and now
on web
1300 pages of policy down to less than 50
Major InfrastructureSection
106
Use Class Order
Statutory consulteesCommunity
Infrastructure Levy
InfrastructureAct
NSIP
Conditions
Brownfieldpackage
Local Plans progress
New homes granted permission: 2007-2014
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Source: Glenigan
Housing is a driver of growth
• Value of new housing £21.7bn in 2013, 31% new work in construction sector.
• Overall construction is around 6% of economic output.
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House building supports employment
• Construction is about 6% of all jobs (2m jobs).
• Housing market also drives consumer confidence, and so wider spending.
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Percentage of decisions in time
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Speed of decisions
Outcomes
• 240,000 new homes approved in the year to September 2014, up 17 per cent on previous year and highest level since 2007
• 78 per cent of major applications decided on time in the quarter July-September 2014, up from 57 per cent in same quarter in 2012
• Time taken to determine an appeal reduced from average of 23 weeks to 15, following changes introduced in October 2013
• Around 12,400 home extensions and 1,800 office-to-residential conversions got go-ahead in six months to September 2014 under new permitted development rights
Progress on Neighbourhood Plans
• 1400 communities have embarked on Neighbourhood Planning
• 200+ communities have published their neighbourhood plan for consultation
• 75+ successful examinations
• 52+ successful neighbourhood planning referendums
• 34 neighbourhood plans “made”
• 13 more referendums in March
• Communities are using their new power to
o choose where new housing should go eg Thame, South Oxfordshireo grant planning permission eg Cockermouth, Allerdale (NDO)o protect local green spaces eg Arundel, Arun
and more …..
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Wider Initiatives
•Brownfield Implementation
•Right to Build
•Permitted Development
•CIL Review
•S106 Process
•Housing Design Standards
•Guidance - SUDS
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FORWARD LOOK
• Implementation
• Land Availability
• Plan Making
• Red Tape Challenge
• Impact on Behaviour
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What Might This Look Like?
• Have a vision
• Have a plan
• Have a commitment: understand resources
• Positive – make it happen – attitude
• Work with customers and wider community
• Consistency
• Speed – efficiency – active engagement
• Communication
• Team work – internal – external
• OUTCOMES, OUTCOMES, OUTCOMES
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PLANNING AND GROWTH
Steve QuartermainChief Planner
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