Mark Cawood, NE Lincs CC - Local Development Orders
1. North East Lincolnshire Council
Local Development Orders
Mark Cawood - Planning & Building Control Manager,
Cofely GDF Suez
2. North East Lincolnshire
the busiest port complex
the largest concentration of
food companies
the most renewable energy
opportunities – Centrica RES,
Siemens, DONG
the greenest power station
the biggest strategic
employment sites
the lowest operating costs
Focus on ports & logistics,
renewables, chemicals &
processing, tourism & retail, &
food processing.
3.
4. But
• Weak housing market
-prices half national
average.
• 2010 46th
most deprived LA
in England
• Lower Area Super Output
Area – East Marsh 2nd
most
deprived in England
• 26% children live in poverty
• Low level of professional &
managerial positions
• 37% of households earning
<£20,000
• 26% children live in poverty
• Higher levels of
unemployment
• Low level of professional &
managerial positions
• 37% of households earning
<£20,000
• Higher levels of
unemployment
5. Enhanced Planning Service
Long term innovative partnership
with Cofely GDF Suez
Major Applications Planning
Service (MAPS)
Agents Accreditation Service
LDO in place for EZ
2012 & 2014 National Housing
Design Awards
2013 National Place Making
Award – Highly Commended
100 % of service users at least
satisfied
Speedy planning decisions
7. Pathfinder Local Development Orders
3 Residential Focussed:
Ladysmith Road,
Grimsby
Grant Street,
Cleethorpes,
Western School site,
Grimsby
1 Food Focussed LDO:
Phase 4 of Europarc,
Grimsby 138 ha
Already one renewables
focussed LDO in place
within Port of Grimsby EZ
11. Ladysmith Road – Desired Outputs
• Housing delivery
obviously!
• Development on key
stalled site
• Demonstration of
proactive planning
service
• Potential step towards
CPO if no progress
• Design code for
development in
challenging housing
market area
14. Western School – Desired Outputs
• Significant council asset
• Shift from maximising capital receipt to wider
ambition
• Informal Quality benchmark setting
• Different approaches
• Exciting design solution sought
18. Grant Street – Desired Outputs
• Urban mixed use
scheme
• Unlock regeneration
ambitions for wider
‘quarter’
• Improvements to key
point of arrival and
destination in its own
right
• LDO in combination
with Local Growth Fund
money
21. Food LDO-Outputs
• Provide key support to
growth in one of North East
Lincolnshire’s key industrial
sectors which is of national
importance.
• Reduce timescales for the
planning and development
process, thereby de-risking
the site and increasing
investor confidence and
reduce development costs.
• Be an important additional
marketing message and add
value to the ‘Food Town
Tool Box’.
• Increase the pace of
investment and growth in
the Food Cluster
• Support the creation of
3,500 jobs
22. Thoughts so far
• Effectiveness too early to
say but part of positive
planning toolkit
• Turning key in the right
direction rather than
unlocking sites
• Obvious resource demands
v day job
• Don’t underestimate the
inertia associated with
doing something new!
• Importance of keeping land
owner on your side
• Managing the public’s
understanding ‘’no planning
application!’’
• Expect concerns about loss
of democratic control,
delays and complication to
be ill-founded
• But LDOs on wider sites
may be problematic due to
funding of technical studies
• Money and time constraints
will reduce an LDO’s value
Unitary/74sqm/160,000 people. Three quarters of which live in the urban areas of G, C and I. Includes attractive rurla villages including part of the Lincolnshire Wolds AONB. Area of great contrast and diversity
200 miles from Edinburgh, London and Rotterdam
62 million tonnes of cargo through Grimsby and Immingham
Largest concentration of cold store facilities in Europe
Seafood capital with more than 100 fish related companies in the borough – just hosted the World Seafood Congress
Half of UK off shore wind market in the southern N Sea
Serving the 4000 wind turbines in present and planned in the N Sea –shortest steaming distance
Handle more than 500,000 new vehicles each year
Leading food innovation technology
Guy Martin’s town
Great countryside. Busy vibrant ports. National companies with a presence
But also the location for Channel 4’s last series of Skint
2013 average NELC house price £119,500 . Rent a 4 bed home for £650 month
Econ active working age unemployment at 6.45% (nat 4.8%)
Further 37% earn between £20 & £30K pa
Poverty compares to 20% nationally
EZ 11 ha
Cofely – UK/Ireland 15,200 employees 236,00 worldwide. Revenue of 84 billion euro
Origins with co that constructed Suez canal in 1850s
Cofely are leading providers of integrated services - specialising in energy, technical, FM & business process solutions for the built environment
Growth Focussed Local Plan. Further council’s aim of ‘’stronger economy stronger communities’’
Jobs, homes, places focus
8,800 new jobs and 9996 homes by 2032
Accelerated route to adoption
3 very different residential sites with different objectives in mind
More recent food LDO
Goes without saying that want to de-risk and frontload planning process but also different specific objectives
Move from maximising capital receipt to wider ambition
2 recent national house building awards but also a lot of uninspiring development and development mainly by localhouse building companies
Local developer ownership
35 apartments approved in 2006
Scheme extant
Europarc is a successful business park located adjacent to the A180 and 3km to the north west of Grimsby Town Centre. Phases 1 and 2 of Europarc have seen occupation from large and SME businesses
site comprises a large area of flat agricultural arable fields totalling 138ha.
Based on the indicative master plan prepared by the site owner, it is expected that the net developable area of the site is likely to be 69.5 hectares
300,000 SQM of employment space
ood manufacturers and the wider support companies that form the existing local food cluster
Stalled sites work undertaken previously. Site development stalled for reasons not planning process related
To overcome serious economic disadvantage LDOs need to be combined with other policy interventions. In EZs they complement financial incentives and infrastructure investment – as in Port of Grimsby.
Welsh Office best practice - LDO should take 1 year from idea to adoption