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
0
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