Transcript DCLG's new planning guidance

National planning policy
and air quality
Peter Ellis, Deputy Head of Planning - Infrastructure and Environment Division
National Planning Policy
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Positive planning in favour of
sustainable development
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Greater democratic and local
control
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Greater simplicity and
effectiveness
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National Planning Policy Framework
Planning and air quality:
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preventing both new and existing
development from contributing to
or being put at unacceptable risk
from, or being adversely affected
by unacceptable levels of air
pollution
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ensuring new development is
appropriate for its location
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taking into account effects
(including cumulative effects) of
pollution on health, the natural
environment or general amenity
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National Planning Policy Framework
Planning and air quality:
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planning policies should sustain
compliance with and contribute
towards EU limit values or national
objectives for pollutants
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planning decisions should ensure
that any new development in Air
Quality Management Areas is
consistent with the local air quality
action plan
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Review of planning practice guidance
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Lord Taylor’s External Review of Planning Practice
Guidance began work in October 2011
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Review reported in December 2012 and made 18
recommendations …..
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….new guidance suite should be up-to-date, coherent and
easily accessible, provide essential information and
exclude best-practice/case study material
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Following public consultation, Government accepted
majority of recommendations
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DCLG worked closely with other departments that coowned/co-badged planning guidance
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From five times longer than Tolstoy’s
War and Peace to …
*actual planning guidance
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Next steps for the guidance
After Beta-stage:
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Finalised guidance to ‘go live’ later this year following
consideration of feedback collected during Beta
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Existing guidance replaced by new material to be
cancelled at this point
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Some further work still to be done e.g. revised guidance
on Compulsory Purchase Orders
Longer term:
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Annual reviews of content to ensure it remains current
and relevant – this does not mean that all content will
change every year
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Capacity for continuous feedback from users
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Planning practice guidance
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Planning practice guidance
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Planning practice guidance
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Planning practice guidance
Air quality: role of local and neighbourhood plans
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Planning practice guidance
When air quality could be relevant to a planning decision
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Planning practice guidance
Where to start if bringing forward a proposal where air quality
could be a concern
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Planning practice guidance
Air quality: mitigating impacts
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Any questions?
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