Transcript Document 7278649

Physical Infrastructure and the
Integrated Regional Strategy
Will Kemp
Planning Policy Manager
Local Government Yorkshire and
Humber
Overview
• Context
• Current evidence
• Future needs
Context: Need to look at
infrastructure
•Capacity: opportunities and
constraints (ie optimal use of
existing infrastructure)
•Cross-boundary issues
•Strategic alignment
•Need to identify sub-regional
priorities
•Economies of scale for local
planning authorities (LPAs)
Context: Guidance
•Housing Green Paper (2007): ‘improved
infrastructure planning’
•Draft Community Infrastructure Levy
(consultation 2009): Funding for delivery
•PPS12: requires evidence of supporting
infrastructure for LDF Core Strategies
•Planning Advisory Service (2008): LDFs
and infrastructure planning and delivery
Context:
RSS Update (2009)
•Arups Study (2008)
•Individual engagement with
utilities
•RSS Consultation responses
Context: lessons learnt
Context: Key messages
from meetings with Utilities
•Electricity: base load requirements for high-rise
development more exacting than for low-rise
•Gas: scope for off-takes diminishes with distance
and gas network hierarchy (acute in rural areas)
•Telecoms: unlikely to constrain growth, but need
to help transition to ‘fibre to the home’
•Water supply: unlikely to be a constraint
•Wastewater treatment: good coverage at a local
level, but unclear regional picture
•General process: need to consult providers – but
at the right time (i.e. the more specific the better)
Context: RSS Update
Current evidence:
Areas of Operation
Current evidence: Assets
Current evidence:
Networks
Current evidence:
Capacity
Future needs:
IRS timescale
•Spring 2010: Evidence Base
•Summer 2010: Policy Options
•Autumn 2010: Options
Consultation - Informal
•Spring 2011: Draft IRS
Consultation - Formal
•Winter 2011: EiP
•Autumn 2012: Final IRS
Future needs: Guidance
CLG/ BIS Policy Statement on SRSs
a)Purpose
‘Long Term Strategic Framework’
‘Promote Sustainable Economic Growth’
b) Context
‘How the Strategy’s plans for sustainable
economic growth, housing and other
development have taken account of
available infrastructure, capacity and
strategic requirements’
Future needs: Approach
Key Principles
• Strategic v Local Distinction
• Proactive and Reactive Input
• Joined up regional, subregional and local work
Future needs:
strategic focus
Strategic Development Constraints
•Transport, Flood Defences, Water/
Wastewater Treatment
Strategic Services
•Gas, electricity, telecoms, (secondary)
education, healthcare (hospitals), police,
waste, green infrastructure
Strategic Facilities
•Other
Future needs: Subregional priorities
•Missing maps (assets, networks)
•Composite maps (sub-regional)
•Regional Water Cycle Scoping
Study
•Infrastructure assessment tables
Conclusions
• Endebted to RDA/RUG/utilities
• Right to be pro-active, but capacity
assessment not always possible
• Need to engage utilities at right stage
(i.e. with draft final numbers)
• Need to join up evidence base (need
for comments on Phase 2 work)
• Need to identify sub-regional issues
and focus on strategic showstoppers