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The future for planning: a campaigner’s perspective

The future for planning: a campaigner’s perspective. East Midlands Councils 27 February 2014. Paul Miner, MA MRTPI FRGS Senior Planning Campaigner. National campaigns to protect wider countryside, and to reduce noise and light pollution

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The future for planning: a campaigner’s perspective

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  1. The future for planning: a campaigner’s perspective East Midlands Councils 27 February 2014 Paul Miner, MA MRTPI FRGS Senior Planning Campaigner

  2. National campaigns to protect wider countryside, and to reduce noise and light pollution • Local planning expertise: network of county branches and district groups • Planning Hotline, Thursday afternoon, available to CPRE members • Planning Help website What is CPRE? Planning to protect the countryside

  3. The Coalition and planning • Pledge to maintain national protective designations • New legislation aims: • deregulation • more local autonomy • community involvement • Planning policy changes Planning to protect the countryside

  4. The NPPF One Year On: Good, Bad and Ugly…But uglier than we hoped • CPRE: ‘Countryside Promises, Planning Realities’ • Major housing schemes allowed against local wishes • Less brownfield development or affordable housing • Many local councils without adopted local plans in place Planning to protect the countryside

  5. Localism and Growth and Infrastructure Acts • General power of competence • Neighbourhood plans • Pre-application consultation • Town / village greens • National projects • ‘Poorly performing’ LPAs in special measures Planning to protect the countryside

  6. The wider countryside: Going…going…gone? • Some take up of Local Green Space • Major development test: transport schemes in Chilterns, Peak District and Blackdowns • Green Belt under more threat • Reduction of 26% in National Park cash grant • Death by a thousand plans: PDRs, offsetting Planning to protect the countryside

  7. CPRE’s Charter to Save the Countryside Don’t sacrifice our countryside A fair say for local communities More housing – in the right places Planning to protect the countryside

  8. Our vision for 2026: Built environment • Most development is on urban brownfield sites • A small expansion of urban areas • Green Belt is reinvigorated • More ‘green infrastructure’ • Better urban design • More people living in the countryside The built environment

  9. Our vision for 2026: planning and democracy • Government-wide duty to consider land use implications of new policy • GDP replaced by new methodologies • Strong democratic input • A new role for neighbourhood planning – a lead role in transition to a zero-carbon society Planning and local democracy

  10. Our vision for 2026: Lifestyles and values • Significant reduction in travel • The countryside a place for enjoyment for everyone • People are more engaged in how their food is produced • Changes to the national curriculum Lifestyles, values, and attitudes

  11. Our vision for 2026: Climate change and energy • Land management helps retain and absorb carbon • The countryside protects us from flooding • Rural renewables, including small wind turbines • Wood fuel from wildlife-rich, low input coppices • New habitats, coastal marshes and wildlife corridors Climate change and the countryside

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