So you want to apply for the Planning Skills Delivery Fund?
The Planning Skills Delivery Fund (PSDF) will provide £24 million over two years to local authorities to help with clearing backlogs of planning applications and prepare for the implementation of proposed planning reform. It's part of a wider programme of work designed to address the capability and capacity of planning services. Local planning authorities can apply for funding for up to £100,000, which can be used to hire additional planning officers and other specialist resources.
Planning Advisory Service recently held two events to help councils think about whether to apply and if they needed to find time over the Summer to make an application. Here is the presentation with all you need to know about the fund.
Idade gestacional sugerida para interrupção das mais diversas situações materno-fetais.
Tabela 2 mostra como interpretar resultado de IG pela data da última mesnstruação e pelo ultrassom.
Client presentation on the benefits of a SMSF and the process for a SMSF to use the borrowing rules to invest in property. Includes the different ways of getting property into a fund and how to finance them.
Idade gestacional sugerida para interrupção das mais diversas situações materno-fetais.
Tabela 2 mostra como interpretar resultado de IG pela data da última mesnstruação e pelo ultrassom.
Client presentation on the benefits of a SMSF and the process for a SMSF to use the borrowing rules to invest in property. Includes the different ways of getting property into a fund and how to finance them.
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NV_path_rendering is an OpenGL extension for GPU-accelerated path rendering. Recent functionality improvements provide better performance, better typography, rounded rectangles, conics, and OpenGL ES support. This functionality is available today with NVIDIA's 337.88 drivers.
The latest NV_path_rendering specification documents these new functional improvements:
https://www.opengl.org/registry/specs/NV/path_rendering.txt
You can find sample code here:
https://github.com/markkilgard/NVprSDK
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A utilização de luz na clínica médica é denominada de fotomedicina e é dividida em três categorias: fototerapia, fotoquimioterapia e terapia fotodinâmica.
A terapia fotodinâmica é uma técnica terapêutica baseada em uma reação química ativada por luz usada para destruição seletiva de um tecido.
NV_path_rendering is an OpenGL extension for GPU-accelerated path rendering. Recent functionality improvements provide better performance, better typography, rounded rectangles, conics, and OpenGL ES support. This functionality is available today with NVIDIA's 337.88 drivers.
The latest NV_path_rendering specification documents these new functional improvements:
https://www.opengl.org/registry/specs/NV/path_rendering.txt
You can find sample code here:
https://github.com/markkilgard/NVprSDK
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- Challenges to proposal writing
- What do funders look for?
- 10 questions every proposal should answer
- How to get to submitting successful proposals
Learn about the most common questions that every proposal should answer to be successful. Our funding team uses these questions to ensure that every proposal we prepare with our NGO partners maximizes its chances for shortlisting and, ultimately, a funding award. This webinar will also offer an opportunity to discuss your proposal with members of our team.
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Presenters:
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By the end of this program, you'll be able to understand:
Why grants are so powerful, especially in 2022?
What is prospect research and why is it important?
5 clear steps you can take to prepare your nonprofit for grant success.
Will works with Instrumentl. Backed by years of personal and professional experience in the nonprofit and academic arenas, the founding team came together to create the most comprehensive source of grant and funder data in the world, and designed it around the needs of our community.
Founded in 2014, Instrumentl was built to help fundraisers make the best use of their valuable time and energy. We make the grant process faster, easier, and more efficient, so you can do what you do best: make a positive impact.
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http://Avtonom.org
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OVD-Info
https://en.ovdinfo.org/antiwar-ovd-info-guide
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Uznik Online
http://uznikonline.tilda.ws/
Russian Reader
https://therussianreader.com/
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https://abc38.noblogs.org/
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So you want to apply for the Planning Skills Delivery Fund PAS Events August 2023 year 1
1. “So you think you want to apply for PSDF
funding year 1?”
Online event – presentation for web
August 2023
local.gov.uk/pas
2. This session
1. Introductions
2. What we know about the fund
– Q&A
3. What we guess about the fund
– Q&A
4. So … are you going to apply?
3. 1. Introductions
• Hello! (again?)
• Also in the room are …
• We are a big group, but we’re going to try and have some
Q&A too
• And a bit of interactivity
– Don’t be shy
• I might have made mistakes – feel free to tell me!
– Or just disagree with me anyway. I enjoy it.
– Remember I’m trying to be helpful and impartial
4. 2. What we know about the fund
• The guidance is essential reading (some of you haven’t)
– Better thought of as two funds?
• It was launched at pace
– Some of the thinking is still happening
– Some basic questions don’t have answers yet
– But the guidance has already been updated, it might again
• It’s part of a wider and longer-term programme
– Not a stand-alone silver bullet
– Nor ideal (treasury rules etc)
5. 2. What we know about the fund
• Worth crunching the
numbers
– We don’t know split
– Think about pot size
– And sequence
• backlog 1st
• skills 2nd
• £100k = MAX
– You can ask for less
• Year 2 might change
24,000,000.00
£ over two years
year 1 12,000,000.00
£ ? we don't know the split
each council max 100,000.00
£
120 awards at max
backlog funding max 75% 9,000,000.00
£ in year 1
skills funding remainder 3,000,000.00
£
90 awards for backlog
30 awards for skills
Q: will there be 90 bids for backlog? Maybe, maybe not
6. 2. What we know about the fund(s)
• Yes Please
– Consultancy, hiring people and seed funding for new posts
– Acting on root causes of backlog and/or specialist resources
– Additionality
– Joint applications, match funding, collaboration and longer term
projects (but see timetable later)
– National Parks
• No thanks
– Nutrients, NSIPs, ICT, neighbourhoods [but see pots
elsewhere]
7. 2. What we know about the fund
• Working back from the thing you need to make
– 11th September submission
– 11 x questions about your LPA
– 27 x questions if you bid for backlog *
– 14 x questions if you bid for skills *
• Via an online form
• With sign-off (agreement?) of your s151 officer
* You can bid for both, but total = £100k
8. 2. What we know about the fund (eligibility)
• Backlog funding - this is only available to local planning
authorities in England who are decision-makers on
planning applications. It is the responsibility of each
authority to demonstrate the nature and scale of their
planning applications backlog. [and not upper tier?]
• Skills funding - this is available for all local authorities in
England involved in plan-making and decision-making to
apply for, which includes upper tier authorities such as
county councils.
9. Sidebar: what
is “backlog”?
• You might not
have any
– That’s OK
– Don’t try to invent
it
• 8 / 13 / 26 weeks:
who cares?
– What matters is
development and
delay
General backlog
(or how many cases in the queue is healthy?)
For example ….
1000 cases per year
19.23 decisions per week
if on average each one takes 8 weeks
153.85 work in progress
15% is normal / necessary
so, a backlog of 30% is twice as big as it should be
remember also question 14 invites you to compare backlog to 5 years ago
Specific backlog
A particular class of work that is out of time
eg 6 x major houses? 2 x Solar?
Or perhaps discharge of conditions? Not PS2 but still an impact
Backlog funding = get them out the door
Maybe part-funded by developer with PPA?
Maybe to procure expertise?
10. 2. What we know about the fund (criteria)
Applications will be considered against the following criteria:
• Evidence of need
• Outputs of the proposal
• Outcomes of the proposal
• Costs and value for money
• Deliverability
Unknown weightings / scores (and they might be different
anyway for different sorts of application)
11. 2. What we know about the fund (eval)
DLUHC will review and assess the applications against the criteria
and consider:
• Whether the organisation meets the eligibility criteria and the
assessment criteria set out above [by scoring them in some way?]
• Prioritising certain assessment criteria over others (noting this
must be applied consistently to all cases) [by weighting the
scores?]
• Aiming to ensure a diversity of local authorities are supported in
terms of nature, size and location
• Whether the applicant(s) agree to participate in a learning
programme aimed at sharing insight and best practice about how
to improve service delivery
12. 2. What we know about the fund (time)
The envisaged timeline is:
• 24 July 2023: application process launches
• 11 September 2023: application process closes
• September 2023: applications assessed by DLUHC
• October 2023: announcement of successful local
authorities
March 2024 – projects finish
13. 2. What we know about the fund (time)
Can local authorities apply for multi-year funding?
• Under this application [in year 1], the bid cap is £100K.
Applicants should clearly state how much funding is
required over the full duration of their project. If the
project runs beyond the end of this financial year, there
is no guarantee that funding will be available to the
same local authority in the financial year 2024/25.
So the answer is “no” .. ? This is a dilemma. Good things
take time!
14. 2. What we know about the fund (time)
When will the first grants payments be issued?
• We anticipate notifying successful local authorities in
October 2023. No grant payment shall be made in
advance of need.
This means you don’t get paid “upfront”
You have to demonstrate need first (like nutrients)
That’s why you don’t get to keep unspent cash (because
by definition there can’t be any)
15. 2. What we know about the fund (time)
Remember this is going to be a cash-rich
cohort, all seeking supply at the same time
Demand spike leads to cost spike? Or loss of
people to private sector / agency routes? We
need to be collectively sensible
Procurement? Supplier capacity?
These are all criteria #5 questions. Have some
answers.
September application
October result
November spend
December spend
January spend
February spend
March reclaim
16. Over to you
• Pause / questions / comments on the facts of the fund
• (we’re going to share some PAS thoughts and guesses
about the fund, bidding strategy and timetables in a
moment)
17. What we guess about the fund
• Strict March deadline is a kicker
– But there may be ways of approaching “need”
• Avoid the chicken & egg
– And you might have in-house options?
• You are competing with each other for a slice of the pie
– Some of it is out of your control (where you are in the country)
– Some of you just don’t have a backlog
– Recognise that luck is going to play a part
18. What we guess about the fund
• Step back and think “success”
– Focus on outcomes – this is what matters
– The spirit of the rules and DLUHC / treasury
perspectives
• The backlog story needs to be bigger than
numbers
– Cornwall backlog is probably 30x bigger than
Redditch
– Smaller councils must work in ratios (for general
backlog) or impact (for specific backlog)
19. Other things to think about
• Think through standing up the project
– Can you be prepared either way? How might you manage the
multi-year risk (ie not getting £ in year 2)
– Avoid sticking plasters. Think resilience, lasting change and the
accompanying increase in planning fees.
• Joint bids scale really well (esp for skills)
– Might this be a great kickstart for a shared resource?
– 8 x councils enter into a JV for 3 years = £800k and a “need”
– Perhaps more thinking to do on this for a year 2 bid?
20. • Remember year 2 isn’t far
away
– If you do defer, say so
– Don’t make Govt guess. Tell
them how you think the fund
will work best. Explain what
you want from year 2 now!
year 1 year 2 ?
September application
October result
November spend
December spend
January spend application
February spend result
March reclaim
April spend
May spend
June spend
July spend
August spend
September spend
October spend
November spend
December spend
January spend
February spend
March reclaim
21. So … are you going to apply?
1. Are you going to apply for year 1?
2. Did this session help you to decide what to do and
make a better job of it?
• Anything we haven’t covered in this session?
22. Next steps
• Shelly will have some follow-up comms
– Ask you some questions about skills etc
• Neil will invite you to contribute your thoughts on the
scheme more widely
– Embedding user research to all stages of the project
– Not just people applying the fund – but also people who have
decided not to
• capacityandcapability@levellingup.gov.uk