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Welcome and Agenda
• What we are doing
• How are we doing?
• What we will do next
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What we are doing
Getting local plans in place
Investment in infrastructure
Importance of house
building
Protecting the green belt
Faster and more efficient
decision making
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2013/142013/14 2014/15 2015/16 (to end Jan)
National
Infrastructure
18 14 8
Development Plans 95 76 27
CIL: Examinations 41 48 20
All Planning 15,736 16,765 14,204
Enforcement 3,073 3,117 2,616
Specialist 1,354 1,410 981
All Casework total 20,317 21,430 17,856
Different Casework Areas
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Organisational Chart
Head of Case
Management
Simone Wilding
Head of Plans
Lee Armitage
Head of National
Infrastructure
Operations
Tom Warth
Head of
Environmental
Services
Sheila Twidle
Casework & Plans
Director:
Mark Southgate
Head of Planning
Casework
Stev e Hall
Head of Planning
Casework
Tom Warth
Head of
Enforcement, Costs
& Decisions and
Specialist Casework
Jef f Grist
Head of Chart
Janet Wilson
Corporate Services
Director:
Kevin Woodrow
Head of Finance,
Commercial &
Statistics
Peter Sloman
Head of ICT
(inc Horizon &
Web team)
Jan Ry an
Head of Customer
Quality
Jo Esson
Group Manager
(Development
Plans)
Mary Trav ers
Group
Manager
(Planning)
Ben Linscott
Group Manager
(National
Infrastructure)
Pauleen Lane
Group Manager
(Projects &
Initiatives)
Directorates and Business Units: PINS
Chief Executive
Steve Quartermain
Government Legal
Department
Richard Swede
& Lawy ers
Group Manager
(Enforcement,
Specialist Casework
& Costs)
Stuart Reid
Strategic Support
Natasha Perrett
(HEO)
Wales
Director:
Peter Burley
Head of Operations &
Policy
Isabel Nethell
Chief Operations Officer
Mark Southgate
Finance
Jon Banks
Wales
Director: Tony Thickett
Casework
Director: Phil Hammond
Major Applications
& Plans
People & Change
Director: vacancy
Head of Major
Applications &
Consents
Janet Wilson
Head of Knowledge
Centre
Rachael Pipkin
Head of Human
Resources
Martin Jones
Head of
Communications
Stuart Campbell
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Projected Requirement v. Availability:
Further Recruitment Scenario
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SR – Key Themes
Cost Reductions
•Casework Transformation
•Senior Management Restructure
•Corporate Service Transformation
•Estates Rationalisation
•NI Efficiencies
Increased Income
•National Infrastructure Fee Changes
Rebalance Budget
•Corporate Service budgets reducing
•Administrative budgets reducing
•Inspector budgets increasing
•Streamlining layers of management
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Our reputation survey said…
Most said we are:
•impartial
•fair
•open
•we listen
•professional
•trustworthy
“Your case officers remain
excellent - contactable,
responsive, reasonable”
“PINS administration is superb - better than
ever.”
“What you do is fair in every respect.”
“Inspectors should be appointed
earlier in the process.
“Still too paper based – you should produce all
information electronically and make available on
your website as single point of information for
appeals.”
“Greater use of plain English.”
…but not quick
How are we doing?
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Planning - Appeals Caseload
Received 2004/05 – 2014/15
* includes Householder and Commercial Appeals Service cases
Delays are unacceptable and our no1 focus is on getting back to Business as usual operation as soon as possible;
Focus on 80% target meant that some appeals taking unacceptably long time – we have addressed those and average time for all appeals from start is now 17 weeks (19 wks this time last year); but
Delays to start – at worst was 10 weeks - Delays to start will be at BaU by end of Jan - usual expectation is 7 working days; already there for HAS appeals;
Procedure backlog is then in cases with case officers
Extra resources – internal and external - to get back on track – aim is for April.
Then it will be about inspector resources
More detailed profile for 2014/15:
About 92% are written reps (up from 2010)
About 5% are hearings (steady decrease from 2010)
Just under 3% are inquiries (fluctuated between >2% to >3% since 2010; down slightly on last year