PAS - Ready to do Your Duty? event Leeds 13th November 2014.

1. The Duty to Co-operate
Local Authority Experience
S T E V E I N G R A M | STRATEGIC DIRECTOR | ENVIRONMENT & GROWTH
SOUTH KESTEVEN DISTRICT COUNCIL

2. Different Places - Different Perspectives?
Cambridgeshire = a cutting
edge mutual response to the
Duty to Co-operate
Lincolnshire = opts for a
more formalised shared
approach

3. The Cambridgeshire Response
 A long history of demonstrable effective co-operation between the
respective LPA’s
 2003 Structure Plan defined a logical sequential approach to
locating new development - Expanded Cities/New Town/Market
Towns
 A coherent growth strategy continues to deliver – jobs and homes
 Adopted strategy incorporated into the East of England Plan
(2001-2021)

4. The Spatial Geography
• Cambridgeshire and Peterborough
Structure Plan 2003
• The Strategic Housing Market
Area

5. The Cambridgeshire Memorandum
of Co-operation
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2011 2016 2021 2026 2031
Population (000s)
EEFM high migration
EEFM lost decade
EEFM baseline
Census trend
CCC housing targets
LEFM RG Pop
ONS 2011-based projections
LEFM baseline
ONS 2010-based projections
CCC natural change
CCC no build
 Includes a spatial portrait; defines the economic and demographic context;
outlines the anticipated spatial approach with related key diagrams; and
confirms (with the agreement of partners) the objectively assessed needs
for additional housing across the SHMA
 Provides evidence of co-operation by demonstrating that emerging district
level strategies contribute to a strategic ‘more than local’ vision for
additional growth interlinking objectives and district level spatial strategies

6. Cambridgeshire Outcomes to Date
 Joint Statement on the development strategy for Cambridgeshire and
Peterborough – July 2012
 Production of updated SMHA for policy area
 Understanding of objectively assessed need over the next 20 years
 Agreed spatial vision and objectives for the long term growth of
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough
 Alignment with the LEP wide Local Growth Strategy
 Tested at examinations

7. The Lincolnshire Authorities

8. The Lincolnshire Approach
• Central Lincolnshire – Lincolnshire CC, Lincoln City, West Lindsey
and North Kesteven – committed to producing a single local plan
• South Lincolnshire – Lincolnshire CC, South Holland and Boston –
to produce a single local plan
• Alignment with the SMHA’s for those areas?
• Evidence of co-operation

9. South Kesteven Co-operation Issues
• Economically ‘peripheral’ to much of Lincolnshire
• Actually part of the Peterborough SMHA area
• Growth pressures along the A1 corridor – Grantham Growth Point
• Co-operation issues with the statutory undertakers
• Discussions on-going but no formal arrangements in place

10. The Duty to Co-operate – My thoughts
• DTC can be a challenging process – both technically and politically
• Different geographies and growth pressures may require different
approaches to the DTC
• DTC can be a positive mechanism to manage cross boundary tensions –
accommodating needs, aspirations for growth and infrastructure demands
• “Active participation in relevant joint bodies and its adoption of the amended
position on housing provision as agreed in the MOU represent clear
evidence that it has co-operated constructively, actively and on an ongoing
basis. Therefore, I am satisfied that the duty has been complied with.” –
ECDC Local Plan July 2014