Transcript Improving performance in planning services

PLANNING AND RADIOACTIVE
WASTE
Nuleaf Seminar– Radioactive Waste Management
Mark Plummer, Minerals and Waste Planning,
Department for Communities and Local
Government
The context: Planning and
Sustainable Growth
• The growth
imperative and
planning
reform
• Waste
Planning
- where now?
Where next?
Context: The Government’s
Priorities
• Top priority - restore the health of the
national economy
• Two core parts of the Strategy
– Get to grips with the deficit
– Get behind Britain’s businesses, remove
the barriers to growth, unlock the potential,
and support the job creation we need
• It is vital that the right environment exists
to allow local businesses to thrive where
ever they are.
The Planning Contribution
Growth...Growth....Growth.....?
• Positive planning in favour of sustainable development
• Greater democratic and local control
• Greater simplicity and effectiveness
Delivering through…
• The Localism Act
• The National Planning Policy Framework
• Deregulation and simplification
• Promoting effective planning
• Unblocking growth
Planning reform: on a slide!
Local
Sustainable
NPPF and Guidance
Review
Robust
Localism
Act
Duty to
cooperate
Simple
Evidence of
need and 5 year
land supply
Regional
Strategy
revocation
Neighbourhood
Planning
Strong protections
still in place
1300 pages of
policy down to
less than 50
Presumption in
favour of
sustainable
development
Proportionate
Community
Infrastructure
Levy
Deregulation
and
Simplification
Section
106
Effective
Tackling LA
poor
performance
Use
Class
Order
Information
requirements
Growth and
Infrastructure Bill
Permitted
development
rights
6000 page s of
guidance down
to a few hundred
Major
Infrastructure
Speeding
up appeals
Award of
costs
Unblocking
stalled sites
Statutory
consultees
Key points
• Strategic Planning:
– New delivery vehicle - abolition of regional strategies; Duty to Co-operate;
– National Planning Policy Framework
• Local planning:
– Reforms reinforce local plans as the cornerstone of the planning system
– National Planning Policy Framework
• Simplification and deregulation:
- Initiatives to streamline and improve the planning process.
Waste Planning
• Detailed waste policies remain in Planning Policy
Statement 10
• DCLG started to review – based on NPPF principles
• No major changes anticipated, other than reflect existing
EU and national legislation
• Needs to be consistent with National Waste
Management Plan
National Waste Management Plan
•
Needed to deliver requirements of Article 28 of the EU
Waste Framework Directive.
•
Subject to Strategic Environmental Assessment
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A high level document that covers all areas of waste
policy that compliment each other. These will be
supported by hyper links to the full policy documents
where the detail will be available.
•
It is being written using existing policies and will not
introduce any new waste policies
Key questions/points
for waste planning?
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What wastes are covered?
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Strategic Planning
On whom does onus lie?
Extent of co-operation
Data capture
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Waste hierarchy
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Role of guidance?
Next steps
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Complete SEA process
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Consultation in late spring/early summer
•
(Possible) workshops
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Updated Waste Management Plan and Planning
Policy by end of 2013
Duty to Cooperate
A key element of strategic planning:
Requires local planning authorities and public bodies to engage
constructively, actively and on an ongoing basis in relation to planning
of sustainable development
Applies to planning for strategic matters in relation to:
• the preparation of Local and Marine Plans, and
• other activities that prepare the way for these activities
Intended to promote a culture change and spirit of partnership
working on strategic cross boundary issues
What issues to cooperate on?
NPPF states that councils should set out strategic
priorities to deliver:……
• Homes and jobs needed in an area
• Infrastructure, including for transport, minerals, waste
management, telecoms, water supply/quality
• Health, security, community infrastructure
• Climate change mitigation and adaptation
• Conservation/enhancement of the natural & historic
environment, including landscape
Duty to Cooperate: Compliance
Legal test
• Councils required to demonstrate how they have complied with the
duty at the independent examination
Policy test
• As part of soundness testing a plan should be deliverable…and based
on effective joint working on cross boundary strategic priorities
Reporting on duty
• Local Planning Regulations 2012 require councils to report progress
against the duty in their AMRs
Duty to Cooperate: an
opportunity
This is an opportunity to take the initiative early to:
•get the evidence right (and spread the cost)
•reach agreements with partners on joint working approaches
•explore the scope for jointly adopted policies and other strategies
Actions like these will help councils demonstrate at
examinations that they have met the legal requirements
Evidence of effective joint working on cross boundary
strategic priorities is also a key element of the soundness
of local plans
Current Position
•Since it came into force on 15 November 2011 38 local plans have
been tested for compliance with the Duty at examination. This legal
test precedes testing for the soundness of local plans.
• Of the Local Plans examined so far:
– 36 have passed the legal test and the Inspector has gone on
to test the soundness of the Plan
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2 did not pass the legal test and the Plans have been
withdrawn (North London Waste Plan and Coventry Core
Strategy)
PLANNING AND RADIOACTIVE
WASTE
Nuleaf Seminar– Radioactive Waste Management
Mark Plummer, Minerals and Waste Planning,
Department for Communities and Local
Government