A presentation at a Planning Advisory Service event by Sue Janota, Surrey County Council and Jack Straw, Mole Valley District Council.

1. A Strategic Planning and
Investment Framework for
Surrey
Sue Janota Jack Straw
Surrey County Council Mole Valley District Council

2. Surrey.......
A beautiful place
An economic powerhouse
1.15 million residents

3. Surrey.......
11 districts and boroughs
2 LEPs
6 SHMA areas
? Functional economic areas

4. Why work together?
• Failed Local Plan Examinations
• Higher bar for Duty to Co-operate
• Further Alterations to the London Plan and future Full Review
• Securing funding from the LEPs
• Airport expansion
• Leaders keen to lobby Government for strategic infrastructure
investment

5. Challenges
• Meeting objectively assessed housing needs
• A shared view of growth
• Cross-boundary working
• Effective engagement with London
• Co-ordinating investment

6. Where to start?
• Build on existing relationships
• April 2014 Workshop
• Understanding the challenges
SURREY PLANNING
OFFICERS’ ASSOCIATION

7. A Strategic Planning and Investment
Framework
• Terms of Reference
• Memorandum of Understanding
• Local Strategic Statement – 2 stages
.............................................
The Signatories to a Memorandum of Understanding
dated [ ] have agreed to meet for the purposes set
out in these terms of reference to provide a vehicle
for cooperation and joint working between local
authorities within Surrey.
SURREY STRATEGIC PLANNING AND
INFRASTRUCTURE PARTNERSHIP

8. Where are we now?
The easy bit............
Stage 1 - Evidence gathering
– SHMAs
– Green Belt reviews
– Surrey Infrastructure Plan
– LEP SEPs
– Land supply
BUT Politicians still not all signed up
“We want to work with you but we don’t want to sign”

9. Next steps
Stage 2 - Bringing it all together spatially........... If Leaders agree
? Addressing the shortfall
? Potential areas for growth and strategic sites
? To what extent
Facilitated discussions with Leaders
?

10. Issues
• Convincing everyone to sign up
• Cross-boundary working - London, Hants and Sussex .....
• Leaders in total control – how to bring portfolio holders and
backbenchers along?
• Faltering Local Plan progress
• May 2015 elections
“Councils must protect our precious
green belt land”

11. Still feeling our way.......
• Timescales have slipped
– Mid -2015 end of evidence gathering?
• London Plan Review
– Which demographic projections?

12. Any questions?