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House of Commons ODPM: Housing, Planning, Local Government and the Regions Committee Planning Gain Supplement Volume II Written evidence Ordered by The House of Commons to be printed 27 March 2006 HC 1024-II Published on 11 May 2006 by authority of the House of Commons London: The Stationery Office Limited £16.50 The ODPM: Housing, Planning, Local Government and the Regions Committee The ODPM: Housing, Planning, Local Government and the Regions Committee is appointed by the House of Commons to examine the expenditure, administration, and policy of the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister and its associated bodies. Current membership Dr Phyllis Starkey MP (Labour, Milton Keynes South West) (Chair) Sir Paul Beresford MP (Conservative, Mole Valley) Mr Clive Betts MP (Labour, Sheffield Attercliffe) Lyn Brown MP (Labour, West Ham) John Cummings MP (Labour, Easington) Greg Hands MP (Conservative, Hammersmith and Fulham) Martin Horwood MP (Liberal Democrats, Cheltenham) Anne Main MP (Conservative, St Albans) Mr Bill Olner MP (Labour, Nuneaton) John Pugh MP (Liberal Democrats, Southport) Alison Seabeck MP (Labour, Plymouth, Devonport) Powers The Committee is one of the departmental select committees, the powers of which are set out in House of Commons Standing Orders, principally in SO No 152. These are available on the Internet via www.parliament.uk. Publications The Reports and evidence of the Committee are published by The Stationery Office by Order of the House. All publications of the Committee (including press notices) are on the Internet at www.parliament.uk/parliamentary_committees/odpm.cfm. Committee staff The current staff of the Committee are Jessica Mulley (Joint Committee Clerk), Elizabeth Hunt (Joint Committee Clerk), Charlotte Littleboy (Second Clerk), Ben Kochan (Committee Specialist), Ian Hook (Committee Assistant), Ian Blair (Chief Office Clerk), Emma Carey (Secretary) and Laura Kibby (Select Committee Media Officer) Contacts All correspondence should be addressed to the Clerk of the ODPM: Housing, Planning, Local Government and the Regions Committee, House of Commons, 7 Millbank, London SW1P 3JA. The telephone number for general enquiries is 020 7219 1353; the Committee’s email address is [email protected] Planning Gain Supplement: Written Evidence 3 List of written evidence Page Professor David Crichton (PGS 01) Ev 1 Business in Sport and Leisure (BISL) (PGS 02) Ev 2 Diss Town Council (PGS 03) Ev 4 Quarry Products Association (QPA) (PGS 04) Ev 5 London First (PGS 05) Ev 7 Sport England (PGS 06) Ev 10 Nottinghamshire County Council (PGS 07) Ev 12 National Housing Federation (NHF) (PGS 08) Ev 15 The Theatres Trust (PGS 09) Ev 17 Natural England Partners (PGS 10) Ev 20 Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) (PGS 11) Ev 21 Children’s Play Council (CPC) (PGS 12) Ev 24 English Partnerships (EP) (PGS 13) Ev 27 ALTER (Action for Land Taxation and Economic Reform) (PGS 14) Ev 43 Friends of the Lake District (PGS 15) Ev 44 British Property Federation (BPF) (PGS 16) Ev 44 Thames Gateway London Partnership (PGS 17) Ev 47 South East England Regional Assembly (PGS 18) Ev 49 Audit Commission (PGS 19) Ev 51 National Grid Property Holdings Ltd (PGS 20) Ev 53 Community Investors (PGS 21) Ev 58 Commission for Rural Communities (CRC) (PGS 22) Ev 62 Northamptonshire Chief Planning Officers Group (NPOG) (PGS 23) Ev 63 Strategic Planning Advice Ltd on behalf of the Rutland Group (PGS 24) Ev 65 Merseytravel (PGS 25) Ev 67 Milton Keynes Council (PGS 26) Ev 70 Chartered Institute of Housing (CIH) (PGS 27) Ev 72 The Wildlife Trusts (PGS 28) Ev 75 Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE) (EV 29) Ev 77 Labour Housing Group (LHG) and the Labour Land Campaign (PGS 30) Ev 81 Town and Country Planning Association (TCPA) (PGS 31) Ev 84 Bedfordshire Council’s Planning Consortium (PGS 32) Ev 87 English Heritage (PGS 33) Ev 89 Royal Institution of Charted Surveyors (RICS) (PGS 34) Ev 91 Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI) (PGS 35) Ev 94 Football Association (FA), Rugby Football Union (RFU), Rugby Football League (RFL), England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) and Lawn Tennis Association (LTA) (PGS 36) Ev 99 Association of Play Industries (API) (PGS 37) Ev 100 Historic Houses Association (HHA) (PGS 38) Ev 101 City of London Corporation (PGS 39) Ev 104 4 Planning Gain Supplement: Written Evidence Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (CABE) (PGS 40) Ev 106 Environment Agency (PGS 41) Ev 108 Home Builders Federation (HBF) (PGS 42) Ev 110 Confederation of British Industries (CBI) (PGS 43) Ev 115 David Reed BSc DipTP DMS MRTPI, Director of Community & Environment Services, Canterbury City Council (PGS 44) Ev 127 List of unprinted written evidence Additional papers have been received from the following and have been reported to the House but to save printing costs they have not been printed and copies have been placed in the House of Commons Library where they may be inspected by Members. Other copies are in the Record Office, House of Lords and are available to the public for inspection. Requests for inspection should be addressed to the Record Office, House of Lords, London SW1. (Tel 020 7219 3074). Hours of inspection are from 9:30am to 5:00pm on Mondays to Fridays. PGS 05(i) – Response to the Government Consultation on the Planning-gain Supplement by London First PGS 07(i) - Response to the Government Consultation on the Planning-gain Supplement by Nottinghamshire County Council PGS 08(a) – Letter regarding Housing Associations and the Planning-gain Supplement PGS 08(i) - Response to the Government Consultation on the Planning-gain Supplement by the National Housing Federation PGS 10(i) - Response to the Government Consultation on the Planning-gain Supplement by the Natural England Partners PGS 14( a) - Draft response from West Berkshire District Council to Government Consultation on the Planning-gain Supplement PGS 14(i) - Article by David Curry MP in favour of ALTER’s alternative policy PGS 14(ii) - Response to the Government Consultation on the Planning-gain Supplement by ALTER PGS 16(a) – Response to the Government Consultation on the Planning-gain Supplement by the British Property Federation PGS 18(i) - Response to the Government Consultation on the Planning-gain Supplement by the South East England Regional Assembly Planning Gain Supplement: Written Evidence 5 PGS 18(ii) - ‘Financial Impact of the Proposed Planning Gain Supplement’, South East England Regional Assembly, March 2006 PGS 20(i) – Response to the Government Consultation on the Planning-gain Supplement by National Grid Property Holdings Ltd PGS 22(i) – Response to the Government Consultation on the Planning-gain Supplement by the Commission for Rural Communities (CRC) PGS 23(i) – Response to the Government Consultation on the Planning-gain Supplement by Northamptonshire Chief Planning Officers Group PGS 28(i) – Response to the Government Consultation on the Planning-gain Supplement by the Wildlife Trusts PGS 29(i) - Response to the Government Consultation on the Planning-gain Supplement by the Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE) PGS 29(ii) - Housing in England: Key Facts, CPRE Factsheet, Jan 2006 PGS 29(iii) - Planning Obligations: delivering a fundamental change, CPRE’s response to the Government consultation paper, March 2002 PGS 29(iv) - CPRE’s response to the Government consultation paper, Jan 2004 PGS 41(i) – Response to the Government Consultation on the Planning-gain Supplement by the Environment Agency PGS 44(i) – Article on the Planning-gain Supplement by David Reed BSc DipTP DMS MRTPI, Director of Community & Environment Services, Canterbury City Council PGS B/P 01 – Planning Gain Supplement: A consultation, HM Treasury/ODPM/HM Customs & Excise, December 2005 PGS B/P 02 – Response to the Government Consultation on the Planning-gain Supplement from the East of England Regional Planning Obligations Officers Group PGS B/P 03 – Response to the Government Consultation on the Planning-gain Supplement by South West Industrial Properties PGS B/P 04 – Response to the Government Consultation on the Planning-gain Supplement by North Kesteven District Council PGS B/P 05 – Response to the Government Consultation on the Planning-gain Supplement by Buckingham Town Council PGS B/P 06 – Response to the Government Consultation on the Planning-gain Supplement by London Assembly Planning and Spatial Development Committee 6 Planning Gain Supplement: Written Evidence PGS B/P 07 - Response to the Government Consultation on the Planning-gain Supplement by Lawrence Graham LLP PGS B/P 08 – Response to the Government Consultation on the Planning-gain Supplement by The Grundon Group of Companies PGS B/P 09 – Response to the Government Consultation on the Planning-gain Supplement by Cushman & Wakefield PGS B/P 10 – Response to the Government Consultation on the Planning-gain Supplement by the British Chambers of Commerce (BCC) PGS B/P 11 – Response to the Government Consultation on the Planning-gain Supplement by the Mayor of London and Transport for London PGS B/P 12 – Response to the Government Consultation on the Planning-gain Supplement by Network Rail PGS B/P 13 – Response to the Government Consultation on the Planning-gain Supplement by the British Urban Regeneration Association (BURA) PGS B/P 14 - Implementing the Planning Gain Supplement, A BURA Steering and Development Forum working paper, Jan 2005 PGS B/P 15 – Response to the Government Consultation on the Planning-gain Supplement by the Professional Land Reform Group (PLRG) PGS B/P 16 - Labour’s Flawed Land