Transcript LOCAL DEVELOPMENT FRAMEWORK (LDF) CONSULTATION …

GAPTC Training Event - 30th June 2011
Theme: Shaping what our communities
will look like in the future
Philippa Lowe, Head of Development Services
and Nicola Melville, Principal Planning Policy Officer
Welcome
Domestic arrangements:
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Fire drill
Mobiles
Facilities
Format: presentation, exercise, feedback, questions
Timings – finish by 8.30pm
Objective of session:
Gain better understanding about how you can help
shape the future of your communities.
Shaping what our communities will
look like in the future
1. What has shaped the past?
2. What might the future look like?
3. How do we get there?
1. What has shaped development in the past?
• Plan-led system: Cotswold District Local
Plan
• Local Plan Development Strategy directs
new development towards 10 larger,
more sustainable Settlements.
• Exception: Affordable housing permitted,
in principle, in any settlement where
there is identified local need.
• Development Services – enables
development - in line with Local Plan
policies.
How much development has happened?
• The rate of building new houses – past 20 years:
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330 per year between 1992-1997
310 per year between 1998 -2003
260 per year between 2004-2009
230 for year April 2010 to end March 2011
• Average 290 per year.
Is it going to be enough?
• Changing household size….
• More people living on own
• Aging population
• 70’s – currently 15%
• 70’s by 2030 - 25%
• People want to stay in own homes (not
institutions)
• Having children later….
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• Less available housing stock……..
Impact on housing market: includes……
House prices in the
Cotswolds are well above
national average (at
£288,000) yet average
income is below national
average (at £26,800)
There is a need for…..
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Housing (545 Affordable)
Employment
Community facilities
Infrastructure……. etc
“Sustainable
Development”
There is a presumption in favour of…
Sustainable Development
Greg Clark, MP. 15th June 2011
“Local planning authorities should plan positively for
new development, and approve all individual
proposals wherever possible”.
“Communities will have a role in influencing what
housing will look like and where it will go – but not
stop it all together when there is an identified local
housing need”.
‘Neighbourhood Planning’
• Involves engaging in Local Plan consultations.
• Making representations on planning applications
(material considerations).
• Preparation of Neighbourhood plans.
• “Provided a neighbourhood development plan is in line
with national planning policy, with the strategic vision for
the wider area set by the local authority, and with other
legal requirements, local people will be able to vote on it
in a referendum. If the plan is approved by a majority,
then the local authority will bring it into force”. Greg Clark ‘11
Localism – what does it mean?
• Awaiting Localism Act ….but already
• Planning for Growth (03/11)
• Presumption in Favour of Development (16/06/11)
• Engaging with Developers – significant schemes
(see new guidance note)
• Consultations….
• Issues and Options – ‘The Places’
• Site Allocations – ‘The Sites’
Evidence : issues/needs of communities
2. How do we plan for the future?
Nicola Melville
Principal Planning Policy Officer
“Local Development Framework (LDF)”
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The latest word for a “Local Plan”
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We need a new one.
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Communities can influence and shape new development
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Core Strategy – high level, identifies right places
(towns and villages) for future development
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Site Allocations – “ground level”, identifies right
sites within the right places for development.
Right Places
(Core Strategy)
Continuous Evidence Gathering
Core Strategy: Your involvement so far….
• 2007 – “Issues Paper” consultation
(Development considerations for the future)
• 2008 – “Settlement Hierarchy Topic Paper”
consultation
• 2009 - Focus Groups held on key themes
e.g. Environment, and development of some
Settlement Strategies.
• 2010/2011 – “2nd Issues & Options Paper”
consultation, built on previous feedback and
evidence gathered.
Core Strategy: Your Parish / Town Plans
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Avening
Blockley
Chedworth
Chipping Campden
Cirencester
Coates
Coln Saint Aldwyn
Daglingworth
Down Ampney
Driffield
Fairford
Guiting Power
Kemble
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Lechlade
Meysey Hampton
North Cerney
Northleach with Eastington
Poole Keynes
Quenington
Siddington
South Cerney
Stow on the Wold
Tetbury
Weston Subedge
Willersey
Thank you for preparing these, they form part of our “Evidence Base”
Core Strategy: Where are the Right Places?
Existing ‘Right Places’
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Bourton-on-the-Water
Chipping Campden
Cirencester
Fairford
Lechlade
Moreton-in-Marsh
Northleach
South Cerney
Stow-on-the-Wold
Tetbury
‘Right Places’ in the Future?
The 10 Existing ‘Right Places'
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Andoversford?
Avening?
Blockley?
Down Ampney?
Kemble?
Kempsford?
Mickleton?
Siddington?
Willersey?
Core Strategy: The Next Steps
• What we need you to do – respond to our next consultation paper
• What we will do – contact you before the end of 2011
• Further stages…
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Draft Core Strategy written
Formal Consultation
Submitted for independent examination
Adopt Core Strategy
ACTION: Respond to next consultation stage – end 2011
From high level to detail
• Stage 1: Established
“Right Places” for
future development –
What, Where, When
and Why
• Stage 2: Now need to establish
the ‘Right Site’ within those ‘Right
Places’ for Development.
How to influence where development takes
place within a town or village?
Right Sites
in those Right Places
(Site Allocations)
Site Allocations: What is it all about?
• Identifies the “Right Sites” for development in the
“Right Places”
HOW?
• By using information continually being gathered
on potential sites;
Here?
• According with National planning policy;
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There?
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• Using the input of the local community.
3. How do we get there?.....right
development, right place……
• Your and your communities effective
engagement and feedback
Site Allocations: How to get you and your
community involved?
• Please help us engage your
community in choosing the “right
sites” in your town or village for
development
• Perhaps Parish / Town Councils
could run community workshops?
Workshop to support your engagement…..
WORKSHOP
Choosing the “Right Sites” will require a
balancing act between:
• The need for housing and economic growth – Versus - The
need to preserve the special characteristics of places and
respond to site specific constraints.
Site Allocations: Getting the balance right
FEEDBACK
Site Allocations: The next steps
• Community engagement workshops
• “Preferred Sites” consultation.
• Draft Site Allocations Document prepared
for formal consultation.
• Site Allocations Document submitted &
subject to independent examination
• Adopted by Cotswold District Council
Sources of further Information 1.
www.cotswold.gov.uk
Sources of Information 2.
www.planningportal.gov.uk
What needs planning permission?
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Examples
Final updates and news
• New-look public access (handout)
• Planning Fees: New Regulations
• Comprehensive review – locally set fees
• Due April ’11
• Delayed: July or November?
• Consultation on Local Strategic Partnership
• Call for volunteers –Jennifer Taylor (Community P’ship Manager)
ANY QUESTIONS?
Effective Planning…..
“A plan-led system that empowers local people
to shape their surroundings whilst encouraging
the idea that development can positively
benefit a community. A system that is positive,
proactive, simple, less adversarial and free
from bureaucratic barriers”.