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Viability and delivery: Applying good practice

Viability and delivery: Applying good practice. Format. Introduction to ATLAS Managing the process & planning tools Workshop – Play Your Cards Right Feedback Q&A. What is ATLAS. Advisory Team for Large Applications

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Viability and delivery: Applying good practice

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  1. Viability and delivery: Applying good practice

  2. Format • Introduction to ATLAS • Managing the process & planning tools • Workshop – Play Your Cards Right • Feedback • Q&A

  3. What is ATLAS • Advisory Team for Large Applications • Provides support on large scale projects (500+ units) when requested by Local Authorities • Provides impartial advice on large scale projects for benefit of all stakeholders

  4. What ATLAS Does • Secures the timely delivery of high quality sustainable development via four main workstreams: • Project work • Guidance and dissemination • Effective collaboration • Planning system development

  5. Key stages in addressing a viability gap Be clear on vision & objectives 1. Test viability & identify extent of financial barriers 2. Explore, test and agree potential solutions 3. Agree planning tools to deliver solution 4. Implementation & delivery

  6. Example: Gainsborough urban extension • PPA used to drive project • Agreed vision & objectives • Effective project management • Structured and collaborative approach to resolving key issues including viability • High level corporate support from council

  7. Example: Gainsborough affordable housing delivery • Viability tested at bottom of economic cycle, therefore uplift expected • Overall affordable housing parameters set at min. 10% & max. 25% • 5% AH accepted in phase 2 to enable delivery of critical infrastructure • Viability to be independently reviewed following delivery of every 200 units

  8. Example: SherfordCollaborative Workshop • Innovative ideas workshop to address viability gap • Priorities: mitigation of impact and delivering core infrastructure • Shaped final solution that sustained vision

  9. Example: Sherford affordable housing delivery • Flexible approach required to delivery of affordable housing • Reduced provision agreed for phase 1 with delivery beyond linked to defined mechanism • Mechanism compares sales values and build costs at each phase to an agreed base point • Difference used to fund increased level of affordable housing from Phase 2 onwards to max. level of 30% overall

  10. Example: WellingboroughUrban extension

  11. Some Conclusions • All sides have to be convinced of the benefits • Requires new skills and culture change • Can be time intensive to find solutions • Not always possible to find an acceptable solution

  12. Further Information The ATLAS Guide: Planning for Large Scale Development www.atlasplanning.com Responsive Planning Practices for Changing Economic Times

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