housing planning policy statement 3 and the planning gain supplement
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Housing
Planning Policy Statement 3 and the Planning Gain Supplement
Events
A lot of water under the bridge– Housing Green Paper– Housing and Regeneration Bill– Callcutt Report– Planning Reform Bill: PGS replaced with
Community Infrastructure Levy (CIS)– …
Housing
Planning Policy Statement 3 and the Planning Gain Supplement
Housing…
Responding to a tangible sense of crisis
Rynd Smith
Director Policy and Communications Royal Town Planning Institute
Royal Town Planning Institute
Professional body for spatial planners Charity that advances the art and science of spatial
planning Major provider of advice and community involvement
through Planning Aid 20,000 members
Building Sustainable Communities
Housing with access to– Social and community facilities– Retail– Open space / natural environment– Transport– Employment
Durable housing Adaptable housing Affordable housing Zero carbon by 2016
Questions
What are the main barriers to housing delivery ? How can current policy and practice be improved to
help facilitate increased levels of market and social housing, in the right places and as part of genuinely inclusive communities?
The Main Barriers
Getting – Sustainable– Affordable– Volume
Source: Prof A Wenban-Smith
Propositions
There are volume delivery problems There are cost problems There is an affordability problem There are tenure delivery / community management
problems There is a timeliness problem There is breakdown of political conception
– Nationally serious– Locally not in our back yard
Solutions
Getting more spatial– Responding to climate change – Fighting the ‘sustainable infrastructure deficit’
Oiling the supply chain Controlling costs and inflationary drivers
Questions of land supply and market performance– Exploring housing land supply myths– http://www.rtpi.org.uk/item/913
PPS3
PPS 3 Requires that the Regional Spatial Strategy should
enable local planning authorities to ensure a fifteen year supply of land
Five years of this should be ‘available, suitable, and achievable’
The Housing Green Paper
240,000 homes per year by 2016 2 million additional homes by 2016 3 million additional homes by 2020
Regional Strategies (1.6 million – 1.8 million) New Growth Points (100,000 – 150,000) Eco-towns (25,000 – 100,000)
200,000 new homes on surplus public sector land by 2016 60,000 new homes on surplus brownfield land held by local authorities The minimum level of affordable housing provision on these sites will
be 50%
But doubling the flow of permissions/increase in stock of land at
20% per year and doubling social rented new supply leads to a modest impact on price (a reduction of 4% in year 5)
Proposition 1 Affordability is about much more than land supply Consider market conditions, lending policy…
Proposition 2 But we need housing in the volume proposed
NHPAU
Consistent statistical modelling and monitoring Input to regional and local planning
Proposition– Enhanced market and stock intelligence makes better and
more timely planning– Needs consistent high level reporting of land stocks and
build rates by developers– Monitoring will help to further unpack relationships between
demand, supply, price and affordability, which are complex
Homes and Communities Agency
To be established under the Housing and Regeneration Bill
Planning Powers (Cls 13-18) Cl 13 – a flexible and pragmatic power to become
the local planning authority
Sub-national Review
Joining RES with RSS
Proposition Ensure a strengthened regional planning system
delivers– Excellent, timely, integrated housing market analysis– Broadly: the right houses, in the right numbers, in the right
places, at the right time…
Partnerships for Delivery
Housing Green Paper + Callcutt
Proposition– Local housing companies give local authorities
and preferred developers a shared stake in delivery
– Develops and maintains value to support 75% brownfield delivery, quality and place management
Tackling the Infrastructure Deficit
See http://www.rtpi.org.uk/download/202/pol20060839.pdf
A lack of capacity to deliver in scale A lack of capacity to deliver in space ageing infrastructure depreciated infrastructure inefficient infrastructure
The Planning White Paper contains part of the solution - MIPs
The announcement of the replacement of PGS with CIS contains part
The Planning Bill enshrines both
Planning Bill
Parts 1-8 National policy statements Infrastructure planning commission
RTPI response Broad support – some refinement of legislative detail
to clarify community involvement whilst avoiding scope for uncertainty and litigation
Part 10 Community Infrastructure Levy
See Callcutt - attribution See
http://www.rtpi.org.uk/download/672/PGS-P20070202-Combined.pdf
Oiling the supply chain
Housing delivery: affordable sustainable volume: is a wicked problem of many parts
Requires traction on more than one component of the machine to fundamentally change its speed and cost of operation
Polish the planning system Examine landowner and developer dimensions Examine finance and lending dimensions Examine tenure and management dimensions