1. The Future of Planning – A lawyer’s perspective… Housing, Town Centres and Infrastructure Richard Ford, Partner, Pinsent Masons T: 0121 260 4009 E: richard.ford@pinsentmasons.com

2. Centralism (Red) v Localism (Blue)

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4. 1. Centralism v Localism: Housing Development CentralismLocalism 1NPPFLocal Plans 2NPPGNeighbourhood Plans 3 Objective housing needs (e.g. Hunston Properties, Sedgefield v Liverpool) Neighbourhood Development Orders 4Duty to co-operateLEPs 5SoS call-in decisionsAssets of Community Value 6NHB Affordable housing v sustainability 7Affordable housing Local CIL Charging Schedules 8PSR 9Green Belt Release 1010 Garden Cities 1 National CIL Structure 1212 Allowable Solutions 1313 Habitats offsetting

5. 1. Centralism v Localism: Housing Development Long Term Issues: 1. Demographic trends?

6. 1. Centralism v Localism: Housing Development Princess Anne: 'Build New Homes In Villages' The Princess Royal has entered the political debate on housing warning against giant estates to meet the need for new homes. 12:28pm UK, Saturday 22 February 2014 2. Dispersal policy v urban extensions and garden cities?

7. 1. Centralism v Localism: Housing Development 3.Affordable housing v sustainability (zero carbon)? 4.More limited building on floodplains … or “floating homes”?

8. 2. Centralism v Localism: Town Centres CentralismLocalism 1NPPFLocal Plans and flexible policies 2NPPG Local development orders 3 Office to residentialTargeted CPOs 4 Local retention of business ratesParking policies 5 Local development ordersTax Increment Finance (TIF) 6 CPO guidanceCity Centre Enterprise Zones

9. 2. Centralism v Localism: Town Centres Long Term Issues: 1.Retail trends: Destination/experience shops “Click and collect” Further banking branch closures Retail “trading” centres? 2. Leisure trends: Hotels market reasonable Sports stadia redevelopments Horse racing tracks redevelopments

10. 2. Centralism v Localism: Town Centres Retail Futures 2018 argues that high streets are threatened by the current changes in retail structures and shows that the town centres of 153 UK towns (41% of the total) will experience a rapid decline as a result of changing retail patterns and need to shrink to survive. Retail Futures 2018 recommends that a pump-priming fund of £320 million is required to start redeveloping these problem town centres to turn failing and empty shops into good residential accommodation, create more service/entertainment/leisure outlets, and/or provide offices, doctor's surgeries, classrooms/meeting rooms or other facilities for which there may be a local demand. As a result of this policy perhaps 15,000 - 20,000 new homes could be created over four years.

11. 3. Centralism v Localism: Infrastructure CentralismLocalism 1 EU and parliamentary drivers (e.g. HS2) Local Plans 2 Planning Act 2008 and NPSs CIL and TIF (application) 3 Government project funding (and road pricing) 4 Private sector including pension funds and international finance 5CIL and TIF (policy)

12. 3. Centralism v Localism: Infrastructure Long Term Issues: 1.International and pension fund investment 2.Energy, roads, rail, airports 3.Government programme 4.Strategic CIL for LEPs 5.TIF 6.Road pricing

13. Roll on the next five years... General Election as usual will no doubt set us on some new paths: Lord Adonis – Labour think tank DCLG – Government think thank

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17. The Future of Planning – A lawyer’s perspective… Housing, Town Centres and Infrastructure Richard Ford, Partner, Pinsent Masons T: 0121 260 4009 E: richard.ford@pinsentmasons.com