Planning and Obligations Consultation
Planning
Obligations Strategy Consultation
One of WNDC’s roles as
the strategic development control authority for planning
applications within its Urban development Areas is to ensure that,
in making planning decisions, the impacts of a new development on
the need for infrastructure is properly considered.
Planning Principles
prepared for consultation last year outlined how the Corporation
was proposing to examine the use of a standardised charging system
to support the funding of essential infrastructure and support the
development of sustainable communities. The standardised charging
system would use the powers contained within the Town and Country
Planning Acts to require “developer contributions” in addition to
specific requirements for affordable housing, for a range of
infrastructure. The developer contributions, together with any site
specific requirements would be provided through a “Section 106”
legal agreement, completed prior to the issue of a planning
permission and would legally bind the developer to a range of
measures associated with a development, including in some cases,
the payment of staged contributions that would be used towards the
delivery of the necessary infrastructure.
Since autumn 2007, WNDC
has been working with consultants Environmental Resource
Management, (ERM) to examine in more detail the scope for such a
regime to be introduced as an interim measure ahead of the longer
term development plan (LDF) being prepared currently by the Joint
Planning Unit of the Local Authorities.
As we have been preparing
this system, we have been consulting informally with a range of
stakeholders from the public and private sector. This has helped
inform the preparation of a draft proposal for a standardised
charging system detailed in the report below.
WNDC is now undertaking, in association with
ERM, a formal consultation on the document for a period of 6 weeks,
starting on the 19th May 2008 and finishing on 30th June
2008 at 5pm.
Consultation Reports:
Consultation
Report
Annex A -
Housing and Population Projection
Annex B -
Provisional Infrastructure and Cost Schedule
Annex C -
Development Appraisal and Viability Testing
Annex D -
Draft Model s106 Agreement
Consultation
Questions