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Planning: the good,
the bad, and the
beautiful
Victoria Hills MRTPI
Victoria Hills MRTPI, Chief Executive, RTPI
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THE
GOOD
Reasons to be positive about
planning for housing
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Permissions and completions• Net additional dwellings highest
since 2007-8, up 78% since 2012-13
to 222,190
• Latest - 351,700 homes granted
permission in year to June 2018
• More applications decided with in
target period
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10,000
20,000
30,000
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2010/11 2011/12 2012/13 2013/14 2014/15 2015/16 2016/17 2017/18
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English residential planning applications (approved and decided within target period)
Total approved residential planning applications Total decided in target period
Source: MHCLG Live Table T120a
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Local authorities returning to housebuilding
• 2017 RTPI research led by Prof
Janice Morphet from UCL
• 65% of local authorities directly
involved in housing provision
and only 9% not involved at all
• Table of activity for every English
council
• Now strong support from
Government
• Phase 2 research to be
published soon focusing on role
of planning
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THE
BAD
Areas where planning for
housing is not going well
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Resourcing of local planning authorities
• National Audit Office: recent
report identified a 40% fall in real
expenditure by local authorities
on planning and said they were
not on track to meet Govt targets
• Local authorities increasingly
reliant on revenue raising (pre-
apps and PPAs)
• 2018 RTPI research on
resourcing in SE and NW found
shift from placeshaping activities
to core statutory functions
• 20% fee increase will not fill this
resource gap
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Failures in planning for housing
• Many local authorities still not adopted up-to-date local plans
• Failure to link housing and infrastructure
• Lack of monitoring
Source: RTPI, Location of Development, 2018
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Failures in affordability
• House price to earnings ratio
up to 7.9 in 2017 and rising
each year
• Increasing reliance on S106
to fund affordable housing at
expense of other crucial
social and physical
infrastructure.
• Despite this just 4600 homes
for social rent completed in
2017-18
MHCLG, 2018
Lord et al (2018)
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Gap between permissions and delivery
9
0
50000
100000
150000
200000
250000
300000
350000
2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017
Homes permitted, started and completed in England
Permissions Starts Completions
Source: Table 213 House building: permanent dwellings started and completed, by tenure1, England (quarterly)2, 3Source: Glenigan planning permission data cited in MHCLG (2018)
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Permitted development
10 Photo: Martin Godwin for the Guardian
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THE
BEAUTIFUL
RTPI Awards for Planning
Excellence
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Enfield Small Sites Programme, HTA Design
credit: Peter Barber and Enfield Council
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The Nelson Project, Plymouth City Council
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Credit: Interserve
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Carrowbreck Meadow, NPS Group
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Credit: Jefferson Smith
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THE
FUTURE
The future of planning and
RTPI’s role in securing it
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Better planning for quality &
affordable housing
• Taking a strategic view
• Building strong and responsive
local planning authorities
• Creating policy and investment
environments that promote
housing affordability
• Developing and diversifying the
housing sector
• Making the most of data and
new technology
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Thanks for listening
Victoria Hills MRTPI
@VictoriaRTPI