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Local Development Orders as a Positive Planning Tool

Local Development Orders as a Positive Planning Tool. David Dewart – Planning Manager Swindon Borough Council. Format. This is Swindon Swindon’s Local Development Order Experience Swindon LDOs: The Next Generation Summary of Pros and Cons of LDOs. This is Swindon.

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Local Development Orders as a Positive Planning Tool

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  1. Local Development Orders as a Positive Planning Tool David Dewart – Planning Manager Swindon Borough Council

  2. Format • This is Swindon • Swindon’s Local Development Order Experience • Swindon LDOs: The Next Generation • Summary of Pros and Cons of LDOs

  3. This is Swindon Planned Growth within Swindon Borough Local Plan (2026) • An additional 22,000 dwellings by 2026 • (current housing stock is 90,000) • 77.5 hectares of new employment land • 19,600 increase in jobs

  4. What is an LDO? A Local Development Order (LDO) automatically grants planning permission for the type of development specified in it (subject to Conditions), thereby removing the need for a planning application to be made for that development.

  5. Purpose of LDOs • Deregulatory Tool • “Frontloading” the process • De-risking the process • Reducing the costs of development • “Nudge” affect

  6. Swindon’s LDO Experience (1)

  7. LDOs at Key Employment Areas. Goal: To simplify the planning process in order to: • help bring redundant employment sites back into use; • provide greater flexibility for existing businesses to expand; and • Provide an incentive for businesses to relocate to Swindon. Swindon’s LDO Experience (2)

  8. Swindon’s LDO Experience (3) “The LDO has given MINI Plant Swindon the opportunity to innovate, grow and adapt to changing market opportunities, with a more simplified approach to planning.” – BMW “A Local Development Order which allows the efficient implementation of non contentious development, within defined parameters, would be a real benefit to all businesses in Swindon.” – Honda “This is great news for businesses looking to invest in Swindon” – Inception Business Technology Ltd

  9. Swindon LDOs: The Next Generation • Most current LDOs focus on low impact development: “Don’t sweat the small stuff” • The new LDOs are seeking to encourage the kind of development we want for Swindon

  10. Independent Living Housing LDOs

  11. Modular construction to enable homes to be tailored to the occupier’s needs

  12. Swindon Housing LDO (private land)

  13. Swindon Housing LDO (Custom Build)

  14. Great Western Hospital LDO

  15. Swindon Low Carbon LDOs

  16. Swindon Low Carbon LDOs Purpose: to facilitate renewable and low carbon infrastructure developments

  17. Standalone Solar Arrays

  18. Standalone Solar Arrays

  19. LDOs as a co-ordinating tool

  20. Summary: Pros and Cons of LDOs

  21. LDOs as a Creative and Proactive Planning Tool NPPF Core planning principles: Planning should: “not simply be about scrutiny, but instead be a creative exercise in finding ways to enhance and improve the places…” “proactively drive and support sustainable economic development to deliver the homes, business and industrial units, infrastructure and thriving local places that the country needs”

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