Planning & Development From INSITEISSUE 7 | SUMMER 2019 BUILD TO RENT | MENTAL WELLBEING | COASTAL DEPRIVATION THE FUTURE OF MODULAR CONSTRUCTION New manufactured pods are taking the leisure industry by storm. We consider the potential impact on development and affordable housing PLANNING FOR RURAL HOUSING | DRIVERLESS CARS | NEW TOWN DELIVERY Planning & Development INSITE Welcome 3 ISSUE 7 | SUMMER 2019 Editorial CONTENTS Penny Norton WELCOME Carter Jonas planning and development specialists Marketing & Production Welcome back to Planning & Head of commerical and Development Insite TOP 10 PROVIDING FOR CYCLING P&D marketing Kate Valentine We highlight some of the While protected bike routes 04. 20. Art & Design Welcome to our seventh issue. Over the predicted changes likely to impact are increasing, they remain Head of graphic design, next 34 pages we talk trends, apprehension, planning and development in the disconnected. We reflect on why Laura Gale inspiration and legislation. 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So, ignoring Brexit and its Tweet us @carterjonas FUTURE CERTAINTIES IN AN implications, we consider some of the #CJinsite changes likely to impact on planning UNCERTAIN FUTURE? and development this year. A REFORM OF DEVELOPER CLARIFICATION ON STANDARD A NEW FUTURE HOMES CONTINUING INITIATIVES TO 01. CONTRIBUTIONS HOUSING TESTS 06. STANDARD SAVE THE HIGH STREET The Government has announced plans 03. The last revision of the NPPF stated that Set to be introduced by 2025, the new 09. The demise of the high street to reform developer contributions, local authorities may use an alternative to standard is intended to future-proof continues to generate reviews and lifting the pooling restriction for S106 the Government’s standard method when new build homes with low carbon recommendations, the latest being the receipts, indexing CIL rates to track strategic policies are produced. This has now heating and ‘world-leading levels of Ministry of Housing, Communities and the value of development more closely, been clarified, with the Ministry of Housing, energy efficiency’. Local Government’s High Streets and removing restrictions on Regulation Communities and Local Government stating Town Centres in 2030, which recommends 123 lists, and clarifying that local that planners may use the standard method FURTHER CHANGES a ‘comprehensive review of planning authorities may charge for monitoring only when calculating land supply for appeals. TO PERMITTED as it pertains to the high street’. Their S106 planning obligations. 07. DEVELOPMENT RIGHTS recommendation moves to accelerate ANOTHER MOVE TO SPEED Despite a highly contentious the process of compulsory purchase A COMMITMENT TO UP DECISION MAKING consultation, a raft of policy changes orders, update the town centre first 04. policy, ‘a complete overhaul and rewrite’ 02. HOUSING DIVERSITY A green paper to ensure faster decision-making in relation to permitted development Letwin’s Review of Build Out Rates within the planning system will be published rights has been announced. Future of use classes, and a restriction on the has received a Government response. later this year. Drawing on the Rosewell rights are likely to include the upwards use of permitted development rights. The review called for statutory powers Review, the Accelerated Planning Green extension of existing high street for councils to acquire sites at ten Paper is due to address how greater capacity, buildings for residential use. ONE MORE REPORT times their existing use value, a ‘new capability, performance management and 10. The Government’s Future of Mobility: planning framework’ for large sites, procedural improvements can accelerate BIODIVERSITY TARGETS Urban Strategy is on its way. The report and formation of an expert committee the planning process. FOR NEW DEVELOPMENTS will respond to the significant changes to arbitrate on the housing mix of 08. Following a DEFRA consultation, in transport technology, specifically developments. The housing secretary NEW GARDEN TOWNS CONFIRMED the Government has announced the growth in electric and self-driving has promised to publish additional 05. New communities, which are intended to that future developments must vehicles and advances in data and planning guidance potentially provide 73,000 new homes, have demonstrate biodiversity initiatives internet connectivity. on housing been confirmed. £3.7 million was awarded to such as green corridors, tree planting diversification, Grazeley Garden Settlement in Berkshire, or local nature reserves. Exemptions and to accelerate Hemel Garden Communities in Hertfordshire, may be made in the case of permitted growth, but Tewkesbury Ashchurch Garden Community development and brownfield sites. stopped short in Gloucestershire, and Meecebrook in Stafford. of committing Also, Easton Park, North Uttlesford and to land value West of Braintree, all located in Essex, have all capture. received funding. Planning & Development INSITE New town delivery 7 ARE NEW When, in April 2019, the Government announced the IDEAS locations of five new garden towns, totalling almost 65,000 new homes, the housing crisis potentially moved a step closer NEEDED to being resolved. Planning & Development Insite spoke to Katy Lock, projects & policy manager of garden cities and new towns at the Town and IN THE Country Planning Association (TCPA), about how these can DELIVERY successfully be delivered. Our original 32 new towns delivered through the New Towns Act, provided homes for 2.8m people, that’s 4.3% OF NEW of UK households. Cynicism about concrete cows and roundabout cities aside, new towns are generally popular, diverse, healthy places in which to live, TOWNS? and continue to flourish. The New Towns programme drew on many of the original garden city principles established by Ebenezer Howard in 1898, but the new towns were on a much larger scale and delivered by public sector development corporations rather than the private sector. The Town and Country Planning Association (TCPA) is the greatest advocate of the Garden City movement and