RICS Development Conference 2012
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Growing pains? Delivering growth through localism
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Neighbourhoods = Localism = Growth?
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• The growth agenda
• The localism agenda • The new planning ‘toolkit’ • Delivering growth through localism: the 4i strategy • • • •
Intelligence Influence Interaction Impact
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What drives the growth agenda? “local planning authority departments are the last bastion of communism and sheer bloody mindedness” “planning is a drag anchor to growth stifled by red tape and bureaucracy”
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“You can’t earn your future if you can’t get planning permission” “We will earn our way in the world by saying to all businesses – large and small: we will provide you with the modern infrastructure; new growthfriendly planning rules”
“taking on the enemies of enterprise….the town hall officials who take forever to make those planning decisions that can be the make or break for a business. And the investment and jobs that go with it.”
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What drives the localism agenda? “By replacing over a thousand pages of national policy with around fifty, written simply and clearly, we are allowing people and communities back in planning” “planning should be progrowth, pro-building but rather than government, communities will be working with LPAs”
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“We want to restore power to local people and their democratically elected representatives. We want to help them make their own decisions. And we want to give free rein to the creativity, ingenuity and initiative of communities up and down the country” “We need to create communities with oomph – neighbourhoods who are in charge of their own destiny”
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The new planning ‘toolkit’
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Growth
Localism Regional Strategies
Localism Act
Neighbourhood Planning
Community Infrastructure Levy
Communities Involvement Building support
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NPPF
Use Classes Order
GPDO
Appeals
Service Guarantees
Deregulation Speed & efficiency Economic growth
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Delivering growth through localism: the 4i strategy
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Key questions
Intelligence
• What is the local/neighbourhood plan status? • How well do you know your neighbourhood? • Will third parties now be involved in plan-making?
Influence
• Who is responsible for decision-taking? • Is there scope to initiate a neighbourhood plan? • Who will be consulted and when?
Interaction
• Back to scratch for local plans? • How is ‘objective need’ being identified and met? • Pre-application consultation for applications
Impact
• What benefits will the development provide? • Will any contributions mitigate/enhance these? • How can you make the case for development?
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1. Intelligence: know your plans & plan-makers
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• New roles for parish and town councils • Neighbourhood forums could emerge • New initiatives could be promoted – NDOs; CRtBO; Community Bids to take over community assets • LDF updates and amendments • Transitional arrangements for Local Plans • CIL Charging Schedules
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Neighbourhood
Local Plan
1. Intelligence: know your plans & plan-makers
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• Strategic priorities/needs for the area • Broad locations for development • Evidence base
• Shared vision for neighbourhood • Conformity with Local Plan… • …able to ‘shape and direct’ development
Site
• Still required to meet target/need?
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• Included in Neighbourhood Plan?
• Promote via Neighbourhood Plan?
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2. Influence: identifying decision-takers
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• Neighbourhood forums – 233 in place with capital funding & technical support; first NDP due for independent examination this week • Town and Parish Councils – from consultee to decisionmaker & taker • 50% of local electorate – needed to adopt NDP • District Councils - new flexibility to determine development targets • Community – pre-engagement on major developments • Key stakeholders – pre-engagement
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Planning Committee
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Developer Parish Council
Planning Officer
Neighbourhood Forum
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Neighbourhood
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3. Interaction: securing a seat at the table
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• Setting up neighbourhood forums – participate; join; facilitate • Neighbourhood plans – monitor; engage; comment • Local Plan amendments – 12 month window – monitor; engage; comment • CIL Charging Schedules – monitor; engage; comment
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3. Interaction: securing a seat at the table Neighbourhood Plan
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Local Plan
Alternative housing allocation Employment land allocation relocated plandev.co.uk
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4. Impact: making the local case for development
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• Understanding the community’s development aspirations • What are the infrastructure requirements • What is on the CIL Schedule
• New Homes Bonus • How can the community gain • How can community impacts be offset
• Sustainable development test
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4. Impact: making the local case for development
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Benefits of development proposal
NPPF: Presumption in favour of Sustainable Development Economic • jobs
• housing
• protection
• growth
• local services
• natural resources
• infrastructure
• health & well-being
• low carbon
Local Plan
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Environmental
Social
Neighbourhood Plan
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Summary
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• Neighbourhood Planning – good news or bad?
• New players in the decision-taking and plan-making arena • New players & new tools • Benefits direct to local communities • Strategic growth set by districts • Spatial distribution of growth set by neighbourhoods • Flexibility for districts/boroughs • Next 12 months critical: • neighbourhoods formalise and prepare • district and borough councils review and amend • inspectors and the courts interpret plandev.co.uk
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Contact
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Alan Gunne-Jones Principal T: 0207 1010 789 E: a.gunnejones@plandev.co.uk Twitter: @plan_dev
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