new directions for strategic planning
DESCRIPTION
Talk given to the District Councils Network on issues on NPPF operation and delivery.TRANSCRIPT
Directions for
New Directions for Strategic Planning/ Cross-Authority Working
Alister Scott MRTPIProfessor in Environment and Spatial
Planning
Outline
• What is Strategic Planning?
• Models of Duty to Cooperate
• The GBSLEP Spatial Plan model • Take Home Messages
My Role (s)
• RTPI Policy Practice and Research Member
• Led a RTPI strategic planning workshop March 2014
• Academic • Member of GBSLEP
spatial planning group
Strategic Planning Ingredients • Visionary • Sustainability • Additionality • Multiple scales• Integrative• Inclusive • Interdisciplinary• Evidence-based • Deliverable• Informing
Source RTPI workshop March 2014
My Duty To Cooperate Models
Introducing The GBSLEP
Mission• To create Jobs • To grow the economy And in so doing • Raise quality of life for
all the LEP population
Delivering Growth Priorities
LEP Strategy Jigsaw
Why a Spatial Plan? • Tradition of regional planning • Loss of regional planning
created strategic planning vacuum
• Other strategic planning priorities for the LEP agenda
• To “boldly go”: Voluntary partnership of private, public and environmental planners
• Formalise Duty to Co-operate function
Distinguishing Features
• Leadership and vision • Short document• Informal plan • Collaborative endeavour • Inform individual local plans• Long term outlook • Cross boundary focus • Ongoing: subject to
continuous review and update
• Feed into delivery and funding plans
Evolution
• Launch of planning charter (February 2012)• Visioning events cross LEP (September 2012) • Scenario Building and Testing (Nov-Dec 2012) • Conference (April 2013)• Spatial Strategy Draft LEP Board (June 2013)• Public Consultation (Oct-Dec 2013)• Document Revision • Launch (Summer 2014)
1. 11Conceptual Framework
• Economy • (Jobs ; GVA)• Community • (Education; well being;
healthy living) • Environment (Biodiversity,
CO2, Enrich environment• 2 cross cutting themes
Sustainability Connectivity
4 Theme Groups
• Strategic Objectives & Policies – Homes and Communities – Shaping the Economy – Sustainable Living and
the Environment – Connectivity
Focus of workshop this afternoon
Spatial Diagram
Second version
Work in progress
GBSLEPSpatial Plan for Recovery & Growth
GBSLEPSpatial Plan for Recovery & Growth
GBSLEPSpatial Plan for Recovery & Growth
GBSLEPSpatial Plan for Recovery & Growth
GBSLEPSpatial Plan for Recovery & Growth
Housing GrowthGBSLEP: Committed and potential supply of land for housing (000's)
Commitments (plan allocations, permissions)
Potential other sources (SHLAA sites, windfalls)[1]
Total
31.4 62.7 94.1
GBSLEP: Potential housing demand (000’s)[2]
How many homes (CLG) 2011 - 33
How many homes annual average
Provision in plans adopted / emerging[
3]
Annual provision in plans adopted / emerging
153.6 7.0 110 5.0
Notes1. SHLAA’s vary in assumptions and timeframe so indicative only2. CLG figures estimate households, plans set out dwelling requirements so they are not strictly comparable3. Plan timeframes differ so annual requirement multiplied by 22 for comparison
Models of Growth Table 1 – Consultation response on the different ways in which future growth might be accommodated
Views of the future ways of accommodating
growth
Typologies
MORE of these types of growth
Extend Urban Area Corridors of Growth Rail
Urban Consolidation
Enterprise Belt
Growth Elsewhere (i.e. outside the GBSLEP area) Multi-Centre Targeted Approach
ABOUT THE SAME of these types of growth
Dispersed Growth Growth Corridor M6 Toll
LESS of these types of growth
New Towns/ New Settlements Dormitory Settlements
Building the Evidence Base
Joint LEP housing* assessment due to report
Joint LEP employment assessment being commissioned
SEA of emerging plan (in house) commissioned with external QA
Key Issues for the Long Term
• Addressing housing shortfall • Making Duty to Cooperate work • Engaging with community and environment
stakeholders • Realising the rural fringe opportunity space• Maximising HS2 benefits to the LEP as a
whole
Impact
• Local Plan Inquiries – Solihull Inspectors decision November 2013 – South Worcester March 2014 -
• Working relationships and social learning from process– Monthly meetings – Games – SEA
• Highly Commended placemaking awards 2014
Take Home Messages
• “Its better to light a candle than curse the darkness” Katish Kumar
• Process of strategic plan formation matters as much as the plan outcome
• DTC needs a formalised process and output • DTC collaboration and cooperation involves
compromise and time to build relationships • Champions needed both at officer and political level