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amr annual monitoring report city planning 2008-2009 Brighton & Hove City Council's Local Development Framework health mobile enterprising safer attractive Page 1. Introduction 1 2. Data Collection 3 3. Local Development Scheme Implementation 4 4. Implementing the Statement of Community Involvement 10 5. Monitoring Indicators 11 5.1 Contextual Indicators 12 5.2 Core Output Indicators 42 5.3 Local Output Indicators 53 5.4 Significant Effects Indicators 59 5.5 Development Control Performance 65 6. Summary of Policy Performance 66 7. Saving Policies 72 Appendices 74 1. Introduction The Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004 replaced the existing legislation and introduced the Local Development Framework (LDF). 21 It is a requirement of the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004 to publish an Annual Monitoring Report (AMR), by the end of December of each year, to report on the previous financial year. The report is intended to measure the degree to which local authorities have successfully applied the policies set out in their development plans and measure the progress towards the LDF. The Brighton & Hove City Council Annual Monitoring Report 2008/09 will measure the performance against policies in the Local Plan, adopted 21st July 2005. Measurement against the council's policies will help to judge whether current policies are useful, need revision or comprehensive review and advise the council's work under the new planning system. The report will also assess progress in the preparation of the Brighton and Hove City Council LDF. The AMR includes a range of Local and Core Output indicators in order to achieve this. The AMR offers a great opportunity to present information about the city and particularly on the city's development. This AMR and those in the future will describe the effect of the current economic situation upon the city. This AMR relates to the following guidance: Local Development Framework Monitoring: A Good Practice Guide. Regional Spatial Strategy and Local Development Framework: Core Output Indicators - Update 2/2008 The council welcomes comments on the information set out in this report and how it is presented. Key Facts: 32 In 2008/09 721 net dwellings were completed of which 35% were affordable and 100% were on previously developed land. According to population estimates the population of the City has risen by 6,700 since 2001 The 256,600 Brighton and Hove residents live in approximately 115,000 homes. Those of working age that live in the city account for 67.5% of the population. The proportion of persons of working age in the city that are self-employed reduced from 12.6% to 9.3% between 2007/08 and 2008/09. The average house price in the city has fallen from a high of £235,844 in March 2008 to £191,144 in March 2009, The proposed construction of 443 housing units was approved through 196 planning applications during 2008/09 Since 2004 the number of homeless applications has reduced from around 3,000 to 1,000 a year. There has been a large net increase in employment floorspace of 9446 m² in 2008/09 79.41% of major planning applications were decided within 13 weeks The level of crime of four of the seven key offences fell in Brighton & Hove between 2007/08-2008/09. The city accommodates approximately 32,000 students through its two universities and five colleges of further education. There were 108,605 tonnes of waste arisings in Brighton and Hove in 2008/09 Household recycling now averages 28% which puts Brighton and Hove among the top performing councils in the country Over a third of households in the city do not own a car Six Green Flags were awarded to individual parks in 2009 Brighton and Hove is currently a national exemplar Cycling Town until 2011 The Labour Party held their conference in the city, at the Brighton Centre, in 2009. 2. Data Collection The data for this AMR has primarily been compiled from the annual monitoring undertaken by the Strategic Planning & Monitoring Team within City Planning. 63 The data collected has been used to respond to the Core Output Indicators. The Strategic Planning & Monitoring Team monitors all residential and commercial/industrial permissions for each financial year. The information is collated from planning applications registered with the planning authority which is taken from the information entered into the MVM planning database and directly from the planning applications and related documents. All new permissions are mapped using the ArcView GIS package. Site visits are carried out on an annual basis to assess the progress of development on each site with planning approval. Other areas monitored by the team include appeals, retail centre and industrial site 'health checks', and a broad range of sustainability issues. The monitoring for each of these areas is constantly evolving and improved upon during each monitoring year to better meet the needs of each indicator and to develop as new indicators evolve. The Local Output indicators relate to policies in the Local Plan and were derived by the council's Sustainability Strategy (2002) which sets out the council's commitment to sustainable development. The original Sustainability Strategy has since been updated. Much of the information for the Contextual Indicators is related to the Census 2001 which is available electronically via the Brighton & Hove Local Intelligence Service website; www.bhlis.org subsequent updates have been sourced from the Office for National Statistics. Brighton & Hove City Council undertakes Waste and Minerals Planning in cooperation with East Sussex County Council (ESCC). Further data regarding waste and minerals can be found in the ESCC AMR 08/09 found here; www.eastsussex.gov.uk/environment/planning/development/mineralsandwaste/amr1 3. Local Development Scheme Implementation This section of the Annual Monitoring Report provides a progress report against 74 the timetable and milestones for the preparation of documents set out in the agreed Brighton & Hove Local Development Scheme. The Local Development Scheme (LDS) is the three-year work programme to prepare the local development documents that will make up the Local Development Framework (LDF). The LDS identifies the main Local Development Documents to be prepared over a three year period including their coverage and status. It also explains the status of policies and plans in the transitional period from local plan to local development documents and the status of supplementary planning guidance notes. The most recently approved version of the Brighton & Hove LDS is April 2009. For the purpose of this AMR, this is the version that must be used in order to monitor progress for the financial year 2008-2009. The main changes made to the July 2008 version of the LDS were: Updating the programme - The following documents were completed and have been removed from the updated programme: Annual Monitoring Report submitted in December 2008 The following background documents were completed in May 2009: The Strategic Housing Land Availability Study The Revised Transport Assessment of the Core Strategy Update to the Employment Land Study Green Infrastructure Network Study Open Space, Sport and Recreation Study Changes to the Timetable - Major changes have been made to the timetables for preparing the Core Strategy. This was due to the need to undertake further background research due to the Shoreham Harbour Growth Point announcement in July 2008, advice from the Planning Inspectorate and the publication of PPS121 in June 2008. The Waste and Minerals Core Strategy timetable is also under review due to the requirement during 2009 for substantial technical background information alongside consultation with key stakeholders. 1 Planning Policy Statement 12 'Local Spatial Planning' July 2008. A revised Minerals and Waste Development Scheme will be published in early 2010 with the city council's partners East Sussex County Council. A timetable to 5 deliver a Shoreham Harbour Joint Area Action Plan was added to the Local Development Scheme in April 2009 following the award of conditional Growth Point status to the Harbour by the government. However, the withdrawal of relevant funding by SEEDA2 means that the timetable for this Area Action Plan is now under review by the City Council, Adur District and West Sussex County Councils. There have also been revisions made to all of the timetables for Supplementary Planning Documents (SPD) production, mainly due to the need to concentrate staff resources on Core Strategy preparation. Three Best Value Performance Indicators relate to the LDF. These BVPIs and the progress achieved against these indicators for 1st January - 1st December 2009 are set out below: BVPI Status BV200a - did the local planning The first LDS was submitted on 4th authority submit the LDS by March January 2005 and revised on June 28th 2005 and thereafter maintain a 2006, April 2007 and April 2009. three year rolling programme? BV200b - has the local planning Ongoing - see table overleaf for details authority met the milestones, which of milestones for 2008 the current LDS sets out? BV200c - did the local planning Yes submitted Dec 2008 authority publish an annual monitoring report by December of last year? The following table provides an update on progress against milestones for each Development Plan Document (DPD) in the agreed LDS. Please note that as a result of 'Planning Policy Statement 12: Local Spatial Planning' which was published in June 2008, the milestones used for monitoring development plan
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