Directions for

New Directions for Strategic Planning/ Cross-Authority Working 

Alister Scott MRTPIProfessor in Environment and Spatial

Planning

Outline

• What is Strategic Planning?

• Models of Duty to Cooperate

• The GBSLEP Spatial Plan model • Take Home Messages

My Role (s)

• RTPI Policy Practice and Research Member

• Led a RTPI strategic planning workshop March 2014

• Academic • Member of GBSLEP

spatial planning group

Strategic Planning Ingredients • Visionary • Sustainability • Additionality • Multiple scales• Integrative• Inclusive • Interdisciplinary• Evidence-based • Deliverable• Informing

Source RTPI workshop March 2014

My Duty To Cooperate Models

Introducing The GBSLEP

Mission• To create Jobs • To grow the economy And in so doing • Raise quality of life for

all the LEP population

Delivering Growth Priorities

LEP Strategy Jigsaw

Why a Spatial Plan? • Tradition of regional planning • Loss of regional planning

created strategic planning vacuum

• Other strategic planning priorities for the LEP agenda

• To “boldly go”: Voluntary partnership of private, public and environmental planners

• Formalise Duty to Co-operate function

Distinguishing Features

• Leadership and vision • Short document• Informal plan • Collaborative endeavour • Inform individual local plans• Long term outlook • Cross boundary focus • Ongoing: subject to

continuous review and update

• Feed into delivery and funding plans

Evolution

• Launch of planning charter (February 2012)• Visioning events cross LEP (September 2012) • Scenario Building and Testing (Nov-Dec 2012) • Conference (April 2013)• Spatial Strategy Draft LEP Board (June 2013)• Public Consultation (Oct-Dec 2013)• Document Revision • Launch (Summer 2014)

1. 11Conceptual Framework

• Economy • (Jobs ; GVA)• Community • (Education; well being;

healthy living) • Environment (Biodiversity,

CO2, Enrich environment• 2 cross cutting themes

Sustainability Connectivity

4 Theme Groups

• Strategic Objectives & Policies – Homes and Communities – Shaping the Economy – Sustainable Living and

the Environment – Connectivity

Focus of workshop this afternoon

Spatial Diagram

Second version

Work in progress

GBSLEPSpatial Plan for Recovery & Growth

GBSLEPSpatial Plan for Recovery & Growth

GBSLEPSpatial Plan for Recovery & Growth

GBSLEPSpatial Plan for Recovery & Growth

GBSLEPSpatial Plan for Recovery & Growth

Housing GrowthGBSLEP: Committed and potential supply of land for housing (000's)

Commitments (plan allocations, permissions)

Potential other sources (SHLAA sites, windfalls)[1]

Total

31.4 62.7 94.1

GBSLEP: Potential housing demand (000’s)[2]

How many homes (CLG) 2011 - 33

How many homes annual average

Provision in plans adopted / emerging[

3]

Annual provision in plans adopted / emerging

153.6 7.0 110 5.0

Notes1. SHLAA’s vary in assumptions and timeframe so indicative only2. CLG figures estimate households, plans set out dwelling requirements so they are not strictly comparable3. Plan timeframes differ so annual requirement multiplied by 22 for comparison

Models of Growth Table 1 – Consultation response on the different ways in which future growth might be accommodated

Views of the future ways of accommodating

growth

Typologies

MORE of these types of growth

Extend Urban Area Corridors of Growth Rail

Urban Consolidation

Enterprise Belt

Growth Elsewhere (i.e. outside the GBSLEP area) Multi-Centre Targeted Approach

ABOUT THE SAME of these types of growth

Dispersed Growth Growth Corridor M6 Toll

LESS of these types of growth

New Towns/ New Settlements Dormitory Settlements

Building the Evidence Base

Joint LEP housing* assessment due to report

Joint LEP employment assessment being commissioned

SEA of emerging plan (in house) commissioned with external QA

Key Issues for the Long Term

• Addressing housing shortfall • Making Duty to Cooperate work • Engaging with community and environment

stakeholders • Realising the rural fringe opportunity space• Maximising HS2 benefits to the LEP as a

whole

Impact

• Local Plan Inquiries – Solihull Inspectors decision November 2013 – South Worcester March 2014 -

• Working relationships and social learning from process– Monthly meetings – Games – SEA

• Highly Commended placemaking awards 2014

Take Home Messages

• “Its better to light a candle than curse the darkness” Katish Kumar

• Process of strategic plan formation matters as much as the plan outcome

• DTC needs a formalised process and output • DTC collaboration and cooperation involves

compromise and time to build relationships • Champions needed both at officer and political level