Common use of PLAN MAKING Clause in Contracts

PLAN MAKING. The planning process is plan-led and local planning authorities produce Local Plans to set the planning strategy for their area, to be achieved through strategic policies and through site allocations and detailed development management policies. These policies are used to assess planning applications. Local Plans include housing targets. The allocation of sites establishes the principle that specific types and scales of development are appropriate in specific locations. This includes allocating sites for housing and mixed-use development to meet housing targets. It also provides healthcare planners and commissioners with the potential to take a long term strategic approach to allocating sites to meet health infrastructure needs. Local Plans may be produced as a single document or as a suite of documents. In general, a Local Plan will take three to five years to produce. Local Plans, and Neighbourhood Plans (usually prepared by Parish and/or Town Councils), must take account of guidance in the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF). The NPPF sets out the wide ranging ways in which planning should promote healthy and safe communities (Chapter 8) and require Local Plans to have strategic policies for (para.20):  a) housing (including affordable housing), employment, retail, leisure and other commercial development;  b) infrastructure for transport, telecommunications, security, waste management, water supply, wastewater, flood risk and coastal change management, and the provision of minerals and energy (including heat);  c) community facilities (such as health, education and cultural infrastructure); and  d) conservation and enhancement of the natural, built and historic environment, including landscapes and green infrastructure, and planning measures to address climate change mitigation and adaptation. Local Plans are subject to Sustainability Appraisal (SA) to assess the likely economic, social and environmental effects of policies. Specific questions are generally included about the built and natural environment encouraging heathy lifestyles and providing necessary health service infrastructure. This is an opportunity to ensure Councils are considering the relative merits of different sites and policies properly against public health related issues. The considerations that go into the Sustainability Appraisal are essential to what follows in the Local Plan and so early engagement in the Sustainability Appraisal process by Public Health and wider health commissioners can make the biggest difference to the resultant Local Plan. Increasingly, assessment of the viability of development is important and local planning authorities must ensure that costs resulting from policy requirements would not make development unviable. Therefore all Local Plans should contain policies to ensure health issues are considered in new development. Many more recent Local Plans set a requirement for Health Impact Assessments to be undertaken by developers of larger scale housing developments. In addition, local planning authorities have a ‘duty to cooperate’ on plan making. This requires them to work with prescribed bodies including CCGs and NHS England, as well as other local authorities, to cooperate on strategic cross boundary matters such as health infrastructure.

PLAN MAKING. The planning process is plan-led and local planning authorities produce Local Plans to set the planning strategy for their area, to be achieved through strategic policies and through site allocations and detailed development management policies. These policies are used to assess planning applications. Local Plans include housing targets. The allocation of sites establishes the principle that specific types and scales of development are appropriate in specific locations. This includes allocating sites for housing and mixed-use development to meet housing targets. It also provides healthcare planners and commissioners with the potential to take a long term strategic approach to allocating sites to meet health infrastructure needs. Local Plans may be produced as a single document or as a suite of documents. In general, a Local Plan will take three to five years to produce. Local Plans, and Neighbourhood Plans (usually prepared by Parish and/or Town Councils), must take account of guidance in the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF). The NPPF sets out the wide ranging ways in which planning should promote healthy and safe communities (Chapter 8) and require Local Plans to have strategic policies for (para.20):  a) housing (including affordable housing), employment, retail, leisure and other commercial development;  b) infrastructure for transport, telecommunications, security, waste management, water supply, wastewater, flood risk and coastal change management, and the provision of minerals and energy (including heat);  c) community facilities (such as health, education and cultural infrastructure); and  d) conservation and enhancement of the natural, built and historic environment, including landscapes and green infrastructure, and planning measures to address climate change mitigation and adaptation. Local Plans are subject to Sustainability Appraisal (SA) to assess the likely economic, social and environmental effects of policies. Specific questions are generally included about the built and natural environment encouraging heathy lifestyles and providing necessary health service infrastructure. This is an opportunity to ensure Councils are considering the relative merits of different sites and policies properly against public health related issues. The considerations that go into the Sustainability Appraisal are essential to what follows in the Local Plan and so early engagement in the Sustainability Appraisal process by NCC Public Health and wider health commissioners can make the biggest difference to the resultant Local Plan. Increasingly, assessment of the viability of development is important and local planning authorities must ensure that costs resulting from policy requirements would not make development unviable. Therefore all Local Plans should contain policies to ensure health issues are considered in new development. Many more recent Local Plans set a requirement for Health Impact Assessments to be undertaken by developers of larger scale housing developments. In addition, local planning authorities have a ‘duty to cooperate’ on plan making. This requires them to work with prescribed bodies including CCGs and NHS England, as well as other local authorities, to cooperate on strategic cross boundary matters such as health infrastructure.