the new (old) planning for the big society
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The New (old) Planning for the Big Society
Co-producing a believable policy story
Future of London October 2010
Stephen Hill, Director, C2O futureplanners
& RICS Planning and Development Professional Group Board
Key planning and
housing policies for
the Localism Bill
Community Rights
to:
• Buy… public first, then maybe private assets
• Plan…NeighbourhoodPlans
• Build… rural first, and extend to urban
• Bid… for public sector functions
Community Right to Buy
• Designation of land or buildings with ‘community value’… by owners and/or community
• Application to take on assets, and accreditation of applicants…by whom?
• Listing process.. through plan making Call for designations or spot listing?
• Plan/wellbeing criteria… of LPA or community?
• Testing and challenge process… through LDF process and EiP, or local decision?
• Public and Private assets?
• Duty to cooperate…asset registers, fulfilment of listing criteria, and money?
• Capacity of current or future owners to act proactively to meet LDF, LAA, LIP objectives?
• Money for organisational and project development?
Neighbourhood Plans…Right to Plan
• Universal or selective geographical coverage of Neighbourhood Plans
• Designation of areas by LPA and/or community?
• Recognition and accreditation of applicants …by whom?
• Plan/wellbeing criteria… of LPA and/or community?
• Testing and challenge process through LDF process and EiP, or local decision?
• Duty to cooperate on LPA and LSP partners?
• Capacity to integrate community objectives proactively into LDF, LAA, LIP?
• Money and support for organisational and project development?
Permissive
Decentralised
Planning
• Neighbourhood Development OrdersModified LDOs for new ideas about ‘permitted development’, approved locally
• Sustainable Communities Act 2007local spending orders, locally distinctiveinitiatives, and localaccountability
Right to Build…The Minister’s Story…
“We will become a nation of homebuilders”
• A rural housing revolution… Local Housing Trusts will give people the power to expand their villages up to 10% over 10 years.
- Accommodation for the old - Affordable homes for the young - Shops, schools, GP surgeries
• People at last really shaping their own communities
• Power to bypass planning committees
• But I don’t want the principles of Local Housing Trusts just to be a countryside thing. Our towns and inner-cities must benefit too.
“We’ve been through the highs and lows
together” Charlie Hibbert, CLT Member
“I am really impressed by the foresight
and tenacity of local people in driving this
scheme forward. Seeing these houses
here, built to high standards by the
owners, with the support of professionals
is most impressive.”Grant Shapps, Shadow Minister 2008
The model for
Local Housing Trusts…Cornwall CLT Programme 2007
17 villages – 120+ homes
Unique partnerships…
enabling district councils, their
communities, Carnegie UK Trust,
and an RSL
Blisland CLT
on Bodmin Moor
St. Minver CLT
Average house price £650,000
Market value £350,000
Cost including land £120,000
12 houses 12 months
On time – On budget
Charlie’s Story…
Living Ricardo’s
Law of Economic Rent
A social movement
or more effective
PPS 3 compliance
for affordability in
perpetuity ???
Community Right to BuildCommunity Organisation•Existing/Established
•Proposal
Community Organisation•Works up proposal
•Involves local people
Community Organisation•Public/Private Funding
•Delivery partner
Local Planning Authority•EU compliance checks
Community Organisation•Finalises proposal
•Formal notification to LPA
Non-compliance or
NO VOTE… <80%?•Community Organisation
applies for planning
permission
YES VOTE… >80%?•LPA grants planning
permission
•Community Organisation
does developmentLocal Planning Authority•Compliance checks…
- proposal
- organisation (criteria?)
•Referendum publicity
•Vote
Parish-Town Council/CLT/Coop/Cohousing/RSL
•Affordable
•Market
•Non-housing
Set up
funding
???
Models for bottom up housing
and open source planning
“At last, it’s not Vauban”
Spatial Planning
&Placeshaping
Outcomes
• Community membership and ownership
• All incomes and tenures
• Medium and high density
• Value for money
• Long term stewardship
• Life in the space between the buildings
• Social Capital for the care of the place and people
• Resident satisfaction and wellbeing
• Sustainable living and resilience through social organisation
…social cohesion???
• If you don’t know howyou are going to manage and govern the Place…how can you possibly design it?
• All you need to know…
Urban Design Compendium 2 Chapter 5 www.urbandesigncompendium.co.uk/managing
Back-to-front
planning and
design
Ye Olde Placeshapynge and
Spatial Plannyng…
“The exceptional urban and environmental qualities we esteem in many of our older cities were achieved with a very modest input of resources, and by a careful and evolving response to the needs of their inhabitants.”Ralph Erskine, Architect
The Self-Organisers…
Community Land Trusts, Co-Housing,
Co-ops, self-build, self-commissioned
“Time for a citizens’
housing revolution
…creating
democratic places”
http://www.cabe.org.uk/
publications/who-should-build-our-homes
More than… a rural revolution
CABE Community Housing Support Unit
Community led housing design programme to 31/3/11:
• CABE and CLG Housing Supply, collaborating to support this increasingly important sector and what it can contribute to placeshaping.
• CABE is working with existing groups and networks to provide direct support to a small (4) number of schemes.
• CABE is focussing on client support, agreeing a vision, briefing, appointing consultants, evaluating proposals and procurement strategies.
• CABE is working with existing networks to share the learning and best practice emerging from these schemes
Sam McCauley and Dominic O’Neill - Housing Advisors
The ‘Coops and Mutuals’
demand-side self-organising
housing sector body
• Commission for Cooperative and Mutual Housing
• National Community Land TrustBoard (CLG Community EmpowermentFund - Carnegie UK Trust and National Housing Federation)
• Confederation of CooperativeHousing
• UK Cohousing Network
• National Self Build Association
• Development Trusts Association
• Cooperatives UK
• Community Gateway Associations
The Coops’ and Mutuals’
self-organising story
The Actions:
• Feeding into CLG policy development on Community Right-to-Buy and Build
• Working with CLG Housing Construction Roundtable on supply side measures, coordinated by RICS
• Co-producing with the HCA on its community housing advice initiative
• Developing proposals for Communities Direct and a national action learning network with NESTA and CLG
The Offer:
• Wellbeing outcomes that will be a material consideration
• Social organisation as a tool for the adoption of sustainable life choices, particularly mutual support in old age
• Co-operative partners and a role with LSPs and HCA as local placeshapers
The Royal Charter 1881
Objects
To maintain and promote the
usefulness of the profession
for the public advantage in the
United Kingdom and in any
other part of the world
…securing the optimal use of
and and its associated
resources to meet social and
economic needs
The RICS’ story
Advice
• Spatial Planning & Delivery (2009)
Valuation Guidance
• Land for Affordable Housing (6/10)
• Council Assets Less than best(2/11)
• Development Land (2011?)
Research
• Land Value Taxation (12/10)
Policy
• Champion for sector in CLG Housing Construction Roundtable and Housing Sounding Board
• Taylor Report on Rural Housing and access to land
• Thinkpieces to CLG Ministers and officers
• Commission on Community Assets
The Wise Words
of Sir Bob…
• “Put simply, we want to make the programmes fit the place, rather than adapting places to fit programmes.”
• “We’re seeking to instigate a holistic approach to placemaking that embeds design, sustainability and community engagement in the process of setting investment priorities and ambitions.”
Rudi.net online interview 23/2/10 Juliana O’Rourke
Access to land
• Deliver pre-election Cabinet Office requirement for small sites [<50 homes] for coops and mutuals in HCA Public Land Initiative
• Extend to all public land, and include schemes <50 homes in larger public sites
• Extend to all landthrough site or locality specific outcome drivenspatial planning policies
‘Garden grabbing’ SPAN Housing
Corner Green, Blackheath 1956
• Skills and
Competence
• Control and
Accountability
• Scale
• Self-help
• Commercial
• Social Enterprise
• Mixed economyhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjrIVjSK6oA
New ideas about…
“Cities have the capability
of providing something for
everybody, only because
and only when, they are
created by EVERYBODY.”
How well do you know:
Just Spaces http://justspace2010.wordpress.com …
London Citizens www.londoncitizens.org.uk …???
‘The Death and Life of Great American
Cities’
Jane Jacobs
futureplanners
Our principles of public interest practice:
• Share a commitment to help create sustainable and democratic places
• Come from the traditional professional institutions and none
• Believe in value driven work for sustainable development
• Promote ourselves to work with value driven clients, and
• Share learning and innovation with others