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North Northamptonshire Annual Monitoring Report Annual Monitoring Report NORTH NORTHAMPTONSHIRE ANNUAL MONITORING REPORT 1st April 2010 --- 31st March 2011 December 2011 3 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY This is the third joint Annual Monitoring Report (AMR) prepared for the North Northamptonshire Joint Planning Committee and the constituent local planning authorities of Corby, East Northamptonshire, Kettering and Wellingborough. It covers the monitoring year 2010/11 and monitors the implementation of the North Northamptonshire Core Spatial Strategy (NNCSS), adopted in June 2008. It also includes the second assessment of progress with implementation of the Wellingborough Town Centre Area Action Plan, which was adopted in the July 2009 (see Appendix A). Section 1 of the AMR is a general introduction and profile of the area. Section 2 considers progress on preparation of the Local Development Framework, which is the package of plans being prepared by the Joint Planning Committee and constituent local planning authorities. Sections 3-7 set out progress against a range of indicators for the key policy areas of the Distribution of Housing; Economy and Town Centres; Housing; Environmental Quality; and Infrastructure. Most of these indicators were derived from Output Indicators that planning authorities use to monitor local changes. The remaining indicators are drawn from the monitoring framework in the NNCSS and from the Sustainability Appraisal of the NNCSS. As for the last joint AMR (2010), a summary table of these indicators is set out below, showing whether output, sustainability and local indicators are showing a positive or negative trend. This is similar to the system that has been adopted in previous Regional AMRs and is designed to complement this approach. INDICATORS Positive - Clear improvement, or targets met Little or no change Negative - Clear deterioration, or targets not met Insufficient/no comparable data (including no targets or trends to assess against) The AMR seeks to comment on possible reasons for the performance against these indicators in 2010/11. A key factor has been the continuing economic recession. Although the impacts of this will take time to feed through into some indicators, it has had a marked impact on performance against housing and economic indicators. This in turn has impacted on other indicators, for example the percentage of affordable housing built has increased largely as a result of total completions falling, and the proportion of housing built at the Growth Towns has suffered due to stalling of development on some of the larger sites, although Corby has bucked this trend in 2010/11, partly due to Government ‘Kickstart’ grant funding. Strategic Planning for the Districts and Boroughs of Corby, Kettering, Wellingborough & East Northamptonshire 4 The concluding section pulls out key issues and identifies implications for the review of the Joint Core Strategy and for the future approach to monitoring in North Northamptonshire. Key points include: • The continued impact of the economic recession on house completions, infrastructure provision and net jobs growth; • Strategic targets for concentrating new development at the Growth Towns have not been met; • The need to review the employment targets and means of delivering them in order to achieve a better jobs/ homes balance • A general improvement in the Buildings for Life indicator and SSSI condition but deterioration or no change in other environmental quality indicators • Some progress with the delivery of local infrastructure projects but continued delay with major infrastructure provision linked to development of the sustainable urban extensions. Strategic Planning for the Districts and Boroughs of Corby, Kettering, Wellingborough & East Northamptonshire Monitoring Indicator Source Relevant Target Performance in 2010/11 CSS Policy Overall Spatial Strategy % of residential develop- CSS 10 / Table 5 66% 01-11 45% ment at growth towns 10/11 49% % of residential develop- CSS 10 / Table 5 17% 01-11 30% ment at smaller towns 10/11 30% % of residential develop- CSS 10 / Table 5 6% 01-11 6% ment at rural service cen- 10/11 2% tres % of residential develop- CSS 10 / Table 5 11% 01-11 20% ment in rural areas 10/11 19% Employment floorspace on COI BD2 9 No specific target set 62% PDL New & converted dwellings COI H3 9 Minimum 30% of over- 45% on PDL all housing requirement % residential development Sustainability 9 & 13 No specific target set 93% within 0.4km of bus-stop Appraisal of the Submission CSS % residential development As above 9 & 13 No specific target set 74% within 1 km of health centre % residential development As above 9 & 13 No specific target set 45% within 2 km of sports centre % residential development As above 9 & 13 No specific target set 75% within 0.6km of primary school % residential development As above 9 & 13 No specific target set 56% within 1.5 km of secondary school Economy & Town Centres Net jobs growth CSS 11 2,370 net additional 635 annualised jobs pa (47,400 2001- job creation 21) since 1998 Jobs growth by sector CSS 11 6.2% General industrial Information (B2) not available 19.9 % distribution (B8) 23.6% offices (B1) Additional employment COI BD1 11 No specific target set B1 411m 2 land by type B2 18,189m 2 B8 1,795m 2 Mixed - Monitoring Indicator Source Relevant Target Performance in 2010/11 CSS Policy Employment land COI BD3 11 CSS job nos. translated The land identified does available by type to land requirements not take into account the quality of land, or poten- tial future losses of em- ployment land Total floorspace for COI BD4 12 No specific target set An increase in A1 and D2 town centre uses town centre floorspace since the last AMR Housing Plan period and hous- COI H1 7 52,100 net additional N/A ing targets dwellings 2001-2021 Net additional dwell- COI H2a 7 2001-10: 18,314 2001-10: 15,255 ings in previous years (source: CSS Table 3) (16.71% shortfall) Net additional dwell- COI H2b 7 20010-11: 1,385 ings in reporting year 2,531 (45.28% shortfall) Net additional dwell- COI H2c 7 As per housing trajec- N/A ings in future years tory Managed delivery tar- COI H2d 7 As per housing trajec- N/A get tory Net additional pitches COI H4 17 Additional 5.7 pitches 1 (Gypsy and Traveller) per annum 2007- 2017 Gross affordable hous- COI H5 15 31.7% of completions 38% ing completions Deliverable housing PPS3 7 5 year supply of deliv- 3.49 years supply erable housing land Environmental Quality Building for Life as- COI H6 13 No specific target set Score Number sessment of com- 16+ 1 pleted housing 14-15 5 10-13 8 Less than 10 9 Applications granted COI E1 13 None unless reasoned 5 contrary to EA advice justification Change in areas of COI E2 13 CSS seeks increase in A net loss of 118.53 ha biodiversity impor- priority habitats and tance species (targets in BAP) Monitoring Indicator Source Rele- Target Performance in 2010/11 vant CSS Policy Development permitted Sustainability 13 No specific target set 6.42ha within SSSI or LNR Appraisal of but implication that the Submis- should be none unless sion CSS reasoned justification Accessibility to Green- Sustainability 5 No specific target set 56% space Appraisal of the Submis- sion CSS Listed Buildings at risk Sustainability 13 No specific target set 0.30% of listed build- Appraisal of ings at risk the Submis- sion CSS Infrastructure Progress on improve- CSS 6 Improvements in time The National Infrastruc- ment of A14 not to impede rate of ture Plan includes the development A14 widening, work can start imminently Progress on improving CSS 6 Improvements in time Anglian Water Services sewerage infrastructure not to impede rate of to improve capacity at development Broadholme Sewerage Treatment Works and design work on the trunk sewer is pro- gressing. Progress on delivering CSS 6 Required infrastructure Several projects have other infrastructure alongside development been completed and the Corby Link Road can start imminently. However, uncertainty over funding means that very few new pro- jects have started. 8 CONTENTS EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 1 INTRODUCTION Key requirements for Annual Monitoring Reports Monitoring the effectiveness of the Joint Core Strategy 2 LOCAL DEVELOPMENT SCHEME Progress in the monitoring year Current situation Commentary 3 OVERALL SPATIAL STRATEGY 4 ECONOMY AND TOWN CENTRES 5 HOUSING 6 ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY 7 INFRASTRUCTURE 8 CONCLUSIONS APPENDICES A Wellingborough Town Centre Area Action Plan monitoring B District Housing trajectories C Methodology and calculation for 5 year housing land supply D Map of North Northamptonshire E Contextual information Strategic Planning for the Districts and Boroughs of Corby, Kettering, Wellingborough & East Northamptonshire 9 1. INTRODUCTION The Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004 (“the Act”) establishes the need for local planning authorities to undertake Monitoring to provide a feedback loop within the policy-making process and to establish what is happening now and what may happen in the future in comparison to existing policies and targets. Section 13 of the Act requires that local planning authorities keep under review matters which may be expected to affect the development of their area or the planning of its development. Such matters include land use, population and economic, social and environmental characteristics. Section 35 of the Act requires local planning authorities make an annual report to the Secretary of State which provides information on the preparation of planning documents (as outlined in the Local Development Scheme (LDS) and the extent to which policies set out in the LDS are being achieved. Additional legislation also exists which supplements the Act and provides further detail on the production of this annual report – namely Regulation 48 of the Town and Country Planning (Local Development) (England) Regulations 2004 and Regulation 17 of the Environmental Assessment of Plans and Programmes (SEA) Regulations 2004. Further to this, guidance 123 was also created by the Department of Communities and Local Government (DCLG) which stipulated what areas and indicators local planning authorities should monitor and suggested ways in which to undertake this.
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