Signed, Sealed Delivered (?)

Speeding up delivery

October 2018

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Planning System Stages

• Local Plan / Strategy

• Pre App/ Planning Application

• Resolution/ Decision

• Implementation

• Construction and Completion

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Setting CIL/ S106 charges/ local plan

policies

Application to development schemes

Monitoring S106

Spend CIL/ S106

Discharge of conditions

Is planning the problem?

Are developers land banking?

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Complex

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Research: How can we speed

up the delivery of permitted

schemes?

LGA Housing Delivery Programme of support

Planning process focus– while recognising it’s not (always) the problem

Best Practice from local authorities

Started with conversations with developers and agents

Views from developers and agents

Issues that impact speed of delivery (application and post applications stage) factor of:

• political leadership and commitment to delivery

• communication (or lack thereof) on priorities throughout and beyond the permission process

• professionalism and skills of individual officers. This does not always mean agreeing with the applicant –it is about attitude and confidence.

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Conversations with developers

and agents

Pre-commencement

conditions

Enforcement powers

Streamlining services/ process

Culture of delivery at level of the service/ and the site

Developing and delivering new homes

Clusters of interventions

Selected LPA case studies

LPA actions to speed up delivery

1. Smarter use of planning conditions and design codes

2. Using planning powers to unlock development through Section 106 legal agreements and enforcement measures

3. Streamlining the planning process end to end

4. Developing a culture and the capacity to deliver

5. Enabling and delivering housing.

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Smarter use of planning conditions

• North East Lincolnshire Council

• Changing the language on conditions –“first brick”

• Dealing with likely pre-commencement conditions at applications stage

• Croydon Council

• Cane Hill Design Code

• Discharge of conditions

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• Central Bedfordshire - S106 delivery clause

• Sheffield Council - Stuck site programme using powers under S215 Act

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Improving and streamlining planning services

• East Riding – end to end process change from validation to streamlining conditions

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Developing delivery culture

Milton Keynes – significant changes to service delivery

• DM and policy development processes

• Choose your own officer

Rugby Council – approach to large scale major development

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Proactive and strategic

measures…

but what do you do with a stalled

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Conversations with developers

and agents

Pre-commencement

conditions

Enforcement powers

Streamlining services/ process

Culture of delivery at level of the service/ and the site

Developing and delivering new homes

Clusters of interventions

Selected LPA case studies

LPA actions to speed up delivery

Understand the user perspective

1. Smarter use of planning conditions and design codes

2. Using planning powers to unlock development through Section 106 legal agreements and enforcement measures

3. Streamlining the planning process end to end

4. Developing a culture and the capacity to deliver

5. Enabling and delivering housing.

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Understand the development market and engage with the developer

1. Review pre-commencement conditions (and obligations)

2. Use enforcement powers

3. Make the change/ implementation process easy

4. Partner to deliver / support infrastructure delivery

5. Enabling and delivering housing – JVP, CPO…

Questions?

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