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Housing Delivery Changing Times or Business as Usual ?

A West of England Perspective

Key challenges

• How to increase housing delivery rates whilst creating/maintaining

quality living places ?

• How to secure truly affordable housing – when site viability is often

marginal and government policy too focused on home ownership?

• Where should the divide be between public and private sector

infrastructure investment ?

• How to secure the best from both the public and private sectors in

housing delivery?

West of England Consultation Joint Spatial Plan and Joint Transport Study

Scope of the JSP:

• A joint approach to strategic planning and transport issues:- 4 WoE authorities- JSP and JTS

• The JSP will be a statutory Development Plan Document that will provide the strategic overarching development framework for the West of England to 2036.

• The Identifying the number of new market and affordable homes and amount of employment across the West of England 2016-2036.

• Setting out the most appropriate spatial strategy for where this growth should be.

• Identifying the transport and other infrastructure that needs to be provided.

Current stage and timetableNov 2015 – Jan

2016

Autumn/Winter

2016

Spring 2017

Spring 2018

Consultation

Consultation

Current Stage reached:

Regulation 18

Consultation

Issues and Options

Towards the Preferred Spatial

Strategy

Consider response to

consultation to inform

publication plan

Publication Plan (Final Draft

Plan)

Examination by

Planning Inspector

Submit to Secretary

of State

AdoptionLate 2018

Issues and Options Consultation

Preference expressed for retention of overall function of the Green Belt and/or in combination sustainable transport led.

Issues and Options consultation Feedback

the need for walking and cycling but also places that

you can actually walk and cycle to.

Must include services and improvements for transport otherwise no location is suitable

The housing crisis is now so acute that all options should be open

Infrastructure must be

upgraded‘

Change is needed to ensure developers

build in a reasonable time frame

‘Brownfield sites used more were possible …instead of building

on the greenbelt‘

The ideal plan will respect both the protection of the

Green Belt and the requirement to focus on transport sustainability

Better roads, railways and Bus services are essential

Reviewing the Key Evidence base

1. Employment Development Needs Assessment:• Sufficient land to support LEP economic job aspirations to 2036• The housing target supports the planned job growth of 82,500 jobs

between 2016-2036 (or 125,900 jobs between 2010-2036). • Some 78,000 jobs distributed across the Enterprise Zone and Areas.

2. Strategic Housing Market Assessment: • JSP Housing Target 2016-2036• Affordable homes-significant delivery challenges• Aligns jobs and workers

3. Formulating the emerging Spatial strategy4. Urban Living5. Sustainability Appraisal6. Green Belt assessment7. Likely mitigations and infrastructure requirements

Homes needed currently planned and yet to be planned for

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20,000

40,000

60,000

80,000

100,000

120,000

Housing Target

Yet to be planned for inthe region of: up to 39,000

Already in our currentplans and forecast:c.66,000

Housing Target up to 105,000

Scale of Delivery Challenge

105,000

32,200

17,100

0

20,000

40,000

60,000

80,000

100,000

Housing Target up to 105,000

Affordable Housing need

Current estimates of affordable delivery under current Government policy

Delivery gap- how do we deliver more affordable homes?

Where to locate new development: strategic priorities

Influenced by the consultation and evidence review:

1. Economic rebalancing-and addressing the needs of both Bristol and Weston-super-Mare.

2. Retention of the overall function of the Bristol & Bath Green Belt as set out in the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF).

3. The environmental quality of the West of England is maintained and enhanced.

4. Strategic development should be in locations which maximise the potential to reduce the need to travel, or where travel is necessary,maximise opportunities to travel sustainably

Strategic Transport Improvement

Urban Living

Green Belt

Strategic Employment Location

Strategic Development Locations

Motorway Council BoundaryRailway lineA Road

Emerging Spatial Strategy

• Ambition for core Light Rapid Transit network, plus MetroBus extensions and strategic cycling corridors

• Key enabling highway schemes and upgrades

• Core roles of Bristol Airport and Port

• Local rail improvements – increased frequencies and new stations

• New motorway junctions, dynamic motorway management and A36/A46 link

• Bristol and Weston-super-Mare area packages

• Strong overlap with JSP emerging spatial locations, and transport packages to address impact of development sites

Transport Vision – Corridor Key Features

• How we commute now compared to Transport Vision forecasts

• Whilst growth in trips by all modes increase from 530,000 to 670,000, total car trips reduce overall

Transport Vision – Commuting in the West of England in 2011 and 2036

JTS Investment Programme

•Active Modes £0.4 billion approx.

• Bus and Rapid Transit £1.0 billion approx.

• LRT £2.5 billion approx.

• Rail £1.0 billion approx.

• Enabling Road £2.6 billion approx.

• Total £7.5 billion approx.

(approx. £375 million per year over 20 years, outturn. Note: indicative, subject to validation (outturn prices)

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Transport Vision – Overall Package

Deliverability

• The ‘transformational’ JTS is costed at £7.5bn.

•About a quarter of this also mitigates JSP Emerging Spatial Strategy development

• Pivotal role in supporting economic growth - will leave us well placed to compete with other core cities.

•West of England track record for building schemes, but need to do more

•Working with partners – Highways England, Network Rail

• Lobbying for funding, and identifying opportunities for innovative funding

•Next stage - phasing and prioritisation of schemes – a delivery plan

Joint Spatial Plan and Transport Study – Consultation arrangements

1. Led by a engagement coordinator with UA teams.

2. Website - one site www.jointplanningwofe.org.uk which provides initial point of contact

3. Social media - digital platforms including animated video and interactive JTS Vision tool

4. Events and activities programme • Launch event 8th November 10.30am Watershed Bristol• Stakeholder ‘themed’ debates and workshops• UA events

Joint Spatial Plan – Place Making Principles Project

Scope of a complementary piece of work.

1. Review of best practice in strategic place-making

2. How effective are Guidelines?

• how place-making principles could successfully be included in a

strategic level document or not.

3. Review local practice.

4. Public health principles.

5. Identify the characteristics of WoE

6. Outline a route map of next steps.

Quality

A QUALITY HOUSING PRODUCT

Conclusion

A clear statutory sub-regional Planning Framework

Integrated Transport and Infrastructure Investment and delivery to support sustainable growth

Focus on affordability and quality of place

A more pro-active Local /Combined Authority role in delivery and place making