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How to Develop New TownsHow to Develop New Towns
Creating a ToolkitCreating a Toolkit
Ian Butter FRICS MRTPI
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NEW TOWN DEVELOPMENTNEW TOWN DEVELOPMENT
STRATEGIESSTRATEGIES
3. Development Plan PolicyDevelopment Plan Policy
• Town & Country Planning Acts
• Rules and Orders
• Planning Guidance
• Local Development Framework
- Local Plans
- Neighbourhood Plans
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4. Planning Guidance
• Planning Policy Statement 1: Delivering Sustainable Development
(Including Planning and Climate Change supplement to PPS1)
• Planning Policy Guidance 2: Green Belts
• Planning Policy Statement 3: Housing
• Planning Policy Statement 4: Planning for Sustainable Economic Growth
• Planning Policy Statement 5: Planning for the Historic Environment ( & Planning Practice Guide)
• Planning Policy Statement 7: Sustainable Development in Rural Areas
• Planning Policy Statement 8: Telecommunications
• Planning Policy Statement 9: Nature Conservation
– Planning Policy Statement 10: Planning & Waste Management (remains in force)
• Planning Policy Statement 11: Regional Spatial Strategies
• Planning Policy Statement 12: Local Spatial Planning
• Planning Policy Guidance 13: Transport
• Planning Policy Guidance 14: Development on Unstable Land
• Planning Policy Guidance 17: Planning for Open Space, Sport and Recreation
• Planning Policy Guidance 18: Enforcing Planning Control
• Planning Policy Guidance 20: Coastal Planning
• Planning Policy Guidance 19: Outdoor Advertisement Control
• Planning Policy Statement 22: Renewable energy
• Planning Policy Statement 23: Planning and Pollution Control
• Planning Policy Guidance 24: Planning & Noise
• Planning Policy Statement 25: Development and Flood Risk (Including Development and Coastal Change)
– Good Practice Guide on Planning for Tourism (2006) Remains in Force)
• Draft Planning Policy Statement: Eco-towns – Consultation
• Letters to Chief Planning Officers
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5. NPPF
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“The National Planning Policy Framework sets out the Government’s
economic, environmental, and social planning policies for England.
Taken together, these policies articulate the Government’s vision of
sustainable development, which should be interpreted and applied
locally to meet local aspirations”
6. 52 The supply of new homes can sometimes be best achieved
through planning for larger scale development, such as new
settlements or extensions to existing villages and towns that
follow the principles of Garden Cities.
Working with the support of their communities, local planning
authorities should consider whether such opportunities
provide the best way of achieving sustainable development. In
doing so, they should consider whether it is appropriate to
establish Green Belt around or adjoining any such new
development.
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9. The Participants & Their RolesThe Participants & Their Roles
• Government
• Local Authorities
• Statutory Consultees
• Service Providers
• Development Sector (public and private)
• The Public
• Professional Organisations
• Special Interest Groups
• The Planning Inspectorate
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11. Newcourt Exeter
• The Exeter Core Strategy Proposed Submission sets out the vision, objectives and strategy for
the development of Exeter up to 2026.
• The Core Strategy makes provision for 12,000 new dwellings, 60 hectares of employment
land and 40,000 square metres of retail floorspace.
• The Masterplan for Newcourt is intended to accommodate a total of around 16 hectares of
employment land and 3500 dwellings.
It is intended that uses are arranged to achieve the following aims:
– high quality sustainable development
– sustainable transport
– environmental protection
– creation of a mixed and balanced community
– residential amenity
– protection of the historic environment
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14. Liverpool Waters - Peel HoldingsLiverpool Waters - Peel Holdings
• A 30-year vision for the Mersey Waters Enterprise Zone
• Regenerating a 60-hectare former docks to create a world-
class, high-quality, mixed-use waterfront quarter in central
Liverpool.
• One of the largest single-ownership port-city development
schemes in Europe
• Liverpool Waters is one part of the wider ‘Atlantic Gateway’
project, which includes over 50 contributory projects to be
delivered over many decades.
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16. • Potentially 100% business rates discount for five years.
This means that each business that qualifies will receive discounts for five years
from the start of its occupancy in the Zone, providing it enters the Zone by April
2015 subject to a maximum cap of £275,000. This cap would typically be reached if
an occupier took 1,000 square metres (10,000 square feet) of floor space.
• A Simplified and improved planning regime replaces the old
legislation which means more flexibility in terms of changes of
use of floor space within the entire Peel ITC complex.
• The Government will support the provision of superfast
broadband in these zones which is in addition to the £13
million investment by Wirral Government to improve existing
Broadband facility.
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17. • The Peel vision is to create a facility in excess of 230,000 square metres
(2.5 million square feet) that would enable up to a 1,000 separate
companies from China, India, South Korea or other emerging economies,
to exhibit, sell, assemble and distribute their goods into the UK, Irish and
European markets.
• These goods can cover ALL sectors and business lines including but not
restricted to: electrical items, textiles and clothing, kitchenware, furniture,
fixtures, fittings, building materials etc.
• The facility will include showroom spaces, warehousing/storage and
assembly facilities, and will benefit from excellent transport connectivity
via road, rail, water and air.
• This would be the first of its kind in the United Kingdom and the largest
and most sustainable Trade Centre in Europe.
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19. Discussion Topic – Engaging the Public
Evolving a Toolkit
• Initiating the Process – Facilitation & Timetabling
• Identification & Mobilisation of Stakeholders
• Community/Neighbourhood Profiling/Needs
Assessment
• Preparation of Community Action Plans
• Evaluation of Alternatives: Agreeing on Options
• Plan preparation and Implementation
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20. Ladder of ParticipationLadder of Participation
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Developing
Owning
Managing
Deciding
Campaigning
Knowledge
Education
Dialogue
Information
21. Initiating the Process - Building Your PlanInitiating the Process - Building Your Plan
• informal visit to the local community or development partners on the
ground to discuss the possibilities of working together.
• During these initial discussions, the initiator may assess local people’s
needs, community organisation, local leadership, resource potentials, and
possible areas of conflict.
• A number of tools that may be relevant for this exercise include:
- Transect walks
- Social mapping/neighbourhood profiling
- Institutional analysis
- Service provider interviews
- Focus group discussions
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22. Identification & MobilisationIdentification & Mobilisation
of Stakeholdersof Stakeholders
• The stakeholders are:
- those affected by the proposed scheme,
- those who may be causing problems and
- those with some institutional mandate to address the issue or to
influence policy instruments, interventions or project outcomes
• Identify and open up discussions with existing community groups and
organisations
• Capture all the stakeholders in the settlement with rankings on location,
relevance, capacity, weaknesses and opportunities
• Use gender analysis to ensure all the relevant groups, including the
marginalized, are represented
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23. Community/Neighbourhood ProfilingCommunity/Neighbourhood Profiling
Needs AssessmentNeeds Assessment
• Capture social and economic indicators of the neighbourhood
• Map locally available resources
• Define Developable and Undevelopable Areas
• Identify Opportunities and Constraints
• Establish a draft community settlement map open to public
inspection and comment
• Communicate findings to the community for further
assessment and detailing
• Enable process of Stakeholder Capacity Building
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24. Preparation of Community Action PlansPreparation of Community Action Plans
• Community Visioning
• Evaluation of Alternatives: Agreeing on
Options
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25. Plan preparation and Implementation
• Evolution of Strategic Action Plans
• Drafting of Strategic Investment Plans
• Preparation of Development Plans
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30. Neighbourhood PlanningNeighbourhood Planning
• Neighbourhood planning can be taken forward by two types of body - town and
parish councils or 'neighbourhood forums'. Neighbourhood forums are community
groups that are designated to take forward neighbourhood planning in areas
without parishes. It is the role of the local planning authority to agree who should
be the neighbourhood forum for the neighbourhood area.
• The criteria for establishing neighbourhood forums are kept simple to encourage
new and existing residents’ organisations, voluntary and community groups to put
themselves forward.
• Neighbourhood forums and parish councils can use new neighbourhood planning
powers to establish general planning policies for the development and use of land
in a neighbourhood. These are described legally as 'neighbourhood development
plans.‘
• In an important change to the planning system communities can use
neighbourhood planning to permit the development they want to see - in full or in
outline – without the need for planning applications. These are called
'neighbourhood development orders.‘
• Local councils will continue to produce development plans that will set the
strategic context within which neighbourhood development plans will sit.
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31. TIME FOR A BREAK
Next session Commences
10:50
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33. What is Sustainable Development?What is Sustainable Development?
The three dimensions to sustainable development: economic, social and
environmental.
● an economic role – contributing to building a strong, responsive and competitive
economy, by ensuring that sufficient land of the right type is available in the right
places and at the right time to support growth and innovation; and by identifying
and coordinating development requirements, including the provision of
infrastructure;
● a social role – supporting strong, vibrant and healthy communities, by providing
the supply of housing required to meet the needs of present and future
generations; and by creating a high quality built environment, with accessible local
services that reflect the community’s needs and support its health, social and
cultural well-being; and
● an environmental role – contributing to protecting and enhancing our natural,
built and historic environment; and, as part of this, helping to improve
biodiversity, use natural resources prudently, minimise waste and pollution, and
mitigate and adapt to climate change including moving to a low carbon economy.
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34. ‘Sustainable Development in the Urban Century’
- The World Bank
• Sustainable cities are critical to sustainable development, given their position as
engines of economic growth, centres of population growth and resource
consumption, and crucibles of culture and innovation.
• Cities must adopt sustainable development policies as soon as possible because
today’s infrastructure investments will be locked in for hundreds of years. This is
all the more urgent in developing countries that are rapidly urbanizing.
• Sustainable cities should be defined broadly, integrating environmental, economic,
and social objectives, and should be supported with a comprehensive and
customizable how-to menu.
• Making cities sustainable requires addressing knowledge gaps, broadening
participation across stakeholders, and incentivizing behavioural change at the
individual, corporate, and local government levels.
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35. • Green cities are seriously committed to becoming environmentally responsible.
Many have undertaken internal environmental audits to understand the impact of
their policies, and many have become certified under the European Union’s Econ-
Management and Audit Scheme. Cities such as Den Haag and London have
calculated their ecological footprints and are using these measures as policy
benchmarks.
• Smart cities have adopted technical and information platforms to better manage
the use of their resources, improve management, monitor developments, develop
new business models, and help citizens to make informed decisions about the use
of resources.
• Resilient cities have the ability to respond to natural disasters and system shocks,
and can provide reliable services under a wide set of unpredictable circumstances.
These are cities that have built-in systems, such as diverse transport and land use,
that can adapt to change.
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36. Main PrioritiesMain Priorities
• A Suitable Location
• Secure Power
• Safe Water
• Healthy Environment
• Sustainable Buildings
• Future Proofing
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58. Change in the UKChange in the UK
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• Redundant offices to Residential
• Farm Buildings to Shops/Offices/Tourism
• Derelict Warehouses to SME Workspaces
• The evolution of Co & Remote Working
The Facebook Factory
Office
59. A Shipping Container by any other name!A Shipping Container by any other name!
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78. Next StepsNext Steps
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My advice:
•Plan Big- Act Small
•Take the Community With You
•Be Realistic in Achievable Outcomes
•Be Flexible
•Evolution not Revolution
•Get the Basics Right
•Think Local
•Build for Adaptability
•Enable for Technology
•Public Private Partnerships
•A Long Term Strategy
80. WITH THANKS TO YOU ALL FOR PARTICIPATING
Safe Trip Home
Salamat
Ian Butter FRICS MRTPI
ianbutter@ruralurbanplanning.co.uk
www.ruralurbanplanning.co.uk
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