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RTPI Housing Policy JOSEPH KILROY ｜ RTPI POLICY & RESEARCH
Today
o The context for planning
o The housing and planning act
o Better Planning
PLANNING’S
DAMAGING
IMPACT ON
RETAIL
PRODUCTIVITY LSE BLOG
”
PLANING
KILLING FOUR
BIRDS WITH
ONE STONE INSTITUE OF ECONOMIC AFFAIRS
“
IT REALLY IS
THE PLANNING
SYSTEM THAT
IS HARMING
US. ADAM SMITH INSITUTE
”
Source: ‘Local government’s role in promoting economic growth’. LGA, November 2012
REDUCTIONS TO PUBLIC
SECTOR SERVICES
CHANGE IN BUDGETED SPEND
2010–11 TO 2014–15
-55% in
6 years
for high cut
authorities
DCLG
The last time we built over 200,000 homes in a single year
was in 1988
House prices are growing faster than incomes
Net additions for 2014/15 were 170,690. This is a 25%
increase from 2013/14, but not enough to meet need
Private rents are on an upward trend – increasing by 2.5%
in the 12 months to June 2016 (and in London by 3.0%)
PLANNING GENERATES
SIGNIFICANT REVENUES
DCLG
VALUE
OF
PLANNING
Economic
opportunity
Public safety
and security
Diversity and
inclusivity
Resource
efficiency
Entrepreneurialism
and creativity
Health
outcomes Connectivity
The housing and planning act
Starter Homes
Permission in Principle
Alternative Providers
Starter Homes
Planning issues
• Homes exclusively offered to first-time buyers under the age of
40, at a 20% discount below their open market value
• Funded by removal of planning obligations on exception sites
• 20% blanket SH requirement means overriding of local plans
based on strategic housing market assessments
• Unintended consequences of Starter Homes exception sites
being extended to unviable or under-used retail, leisure, and
non-residential institutional brownfield land
Starter Homes Affordability issues
• A replacement for affordable housing and a mix of tenures?
• Impact on viability negotiations
• Concerns around removal of “in perpetuity” provisions
• Who can afford Starter Homes?
Starter Homes
Permission in Principle • The Act introduces an automatic 'planning permission in
principle' (PiP) for certain ‘suitable’ allocated housing sites in
England
• Need clarity on ‘suitable’ and have ‘accessibility’ as a separate
criteria
• Many sites are so poorly located that their development would
generate high volumes of car traffic and long commutes.
• BF registers: 73 pilots on going
• ‘Zoning’ is one of the major contributors to economic and social
segregation of cities and has resulted in poor location choices
for housing locations
Amendment
• Bill changed to make it clearer what is meant by the 'qualifying
documents' that would be used to grant permission in principle.
• We argued for more clarity in order to prevent an Act of
Parliament permitting any document created by the Secretary of
State to grant a blanket permission across England.
• Acceptable documents: future local plans; future neighbourhood
plans; brownfield registers
Alternative Providers
• Applications could be processed by 'alternative providers' rather
than local planning authorities
• A planning application is not simply a transaction
• Lack of accompanying evidence that it is delays in making
recommendations that holds up planning applications
• MRTPI qualifications for alternative providers
BEST PRACTICE
Birmingham Municipal Housing Trust
A dedicated team A mix of tenures
to help viability
A financial model
that allows
developers to
‘build now and
pay later’
Securing spillover
benefits
WHAT WORKS
RTPI Conferences is managed by Kaplan Hawksmere on behalf of the Royal Town Planning Institute
Plan for Homes
Plymouth City Council
Plan for Homes
Plymouth City Council
• Finance: creatively using local authority resources alongside the
flexible application of planning and housing policies;
• Land: identifying and releasing substantial amounts of City
Council owned land for housing in the most streamlined and
targeted way;
• Infrastructure: proactively working with institutional investors to
attract new funding and aligning capital programme;
• Community Engagement: proactive dialogue with local
communities, ward councillors and delivery partners;
• Leadership: provide positive strategic leadership of the housing
agenda in advocating the need for more homes.
Planning in the Netherlands
• Comprehensive, plan-led
planning system
• “Planning agencies make
things happen, rather than
wait passively until some-
one comes along who
wants to implement their
plan
• Active land policy
• Large-scale urban
development projects
(clearly phased)
Planning in the Netherlands
RTPI Conferences is managed by Kaplan Hawksmere on behalf of the Royal Town Planning Institute
RTPI Conferences is managed by Kaplan Hawksmere on behalf of the Royal Town Planning Institute
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