The document discusses the Greater Birmingham and Solihull Local Enterprise Partnership's (GBSLEP) spatial plan for growth and recovery. It outlines the GBSLEP's mission to create jobs, grow the economy, and raise the quality of life. It then describes the conceptual framework for the spatial plan, including focusing on the economy, community, and environment. The spatial plan aims to provide context to inform local plans, take a long term view of growth, and coordinate with neighboring regions. It discusses distributing growth, housing needs, and key issues like addressing the housing shortfall and engaging stakeholders.

1. Promoting Growth and LEPs
Alister Scott MRTPI
Professor in Environment and Spatial
Planning

2. Outline
• GBSLEP unpacked
• Spatial Strategy for
Recovery and Growth
• Lessons for Planning
and Decision- Makers

3. My Role (s)
• RTPI Member and
spatial planning
champion
• Academic researcher
• Member of GBSLEP
spatial planning group
• Joint lead of Quality of
Life and Environment
theme (spatial plan))

4. Introducing The GBSLEP
Mission
• To create Jobs
• To grow the economy
And in so doing
• Raise quality of life for
all the LEP population

5. Delivering Growth Priorities

6. LEP Strategy Jigsaw

7. Why a Spatial Plan?
• Tradition of regional planning in West Midlands
• Loss of regional planning layer created strategic
planning vacuum
• Need to embed other planning priorities into the
LEP agenda to complement ‘Delivering Growth’
• Voluntary partnership of private, public and
environmental planners ‘to boldly go’
• Duty to Co-operate function
• Leadership and vision (Dave Carter/Craig Jordan)

8. Distinguishing Features
• Spatial expression of GBSLEP Strategy for Growth
• Short, 12 pp + illustrations
• Informal status and prepared collaboratively
• Provide context to inform individual local plans
• Long term, 20+ years looking at the scale and spatial
distribution of growth
• Provide a focus for relationships with adjoining LEPs
• Subject to continuous review and update
• Feed into delivery and funding plans

9. Evolution
• Launch of planning charter (February 2012)
• Visioning events cross LEP (September 2012) *
including Rufopoly- (led to themed groups )
• 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 (Spring 2014)

10. 1. 11Conceptual Framework
• Economy
• (Jobs ; GVA)
• Community
• (Education; well being;
healthy living)
• Environment
(Biodiversity, CO2, Enrich
environment
• 2 cross cutting themes
Sustainability
Connectivity

11. Strategic Objectives & Policies
• Homes and
Communities
• Shaping the Economy
• Sustainable Living and
the Environment
• Connectivity
Focus of workshop this
afternoon

13. Spatial Diagram
 Second version
 Work in progress

14. GBSLEP Spatial Plan for
Recovery & Growth

15. GBSLEP Spatial Plan for
Recovery & Growth

16. GBSLEP Spatial Plan for
Recovery & Growth

17. GBSLEP Spatial Plan for
Recovery & Growth

18. GBSLEP Spatial Plan for
Recovery & Growth

19. GBSLEP Spatial Plan for
Recovery & Growth

20. GBSLEP Spatial Plan for
Recovery & Growth

21. Scale & Distribution of Growth
 Work in progress
 Further research required, on both housing* and
employment and sustainability assessment
 Major LEP issues on housing growth

22. Housing Growth
GBSLEP: 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
How many
Provision in
homes
homes
plans
(CLG) 2011
annual
adopted /
- 33
average
emerging[3]
Annual
provision in
plans
adopted /
emerging
153.6 7.0 110 5.0
Notes
1. SHLAA’s vary in
assumptions and timeframe
so indicative only
2. CLG figures estimate
households, plans set out
dwelling requirements so
they are not strictly
comparable
3. Plan timeframes differ so
annual requirement
multiplied by 22 for
comparison

23. Key Issues for the Long Term
• Addressing housing shortfall
• Making Duty to Cooperate work
• Engaging with community and environment
stakeholders
• Realising rural development opportunity
space
• HS2

24. Take Home Messages
• Its better to light a candle than curse the
darkness
• Process of plan formation matters as much as
the plan outcome
• Spatial plan is boldly going…….. into regional
planning void
• Beware of sectoral fetishes

25. Finally
• Please provide feedback via the web
consultation and survey questionnaire.
• http://centreofenterprise.com/sprgcon/
Contact
alister.scott@bcu.ac.uk
@bcualisterscott