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Planning: the good,
the bad, and the
beautiful
Victoria Hills MRTPI
Victoria Hills MRTPI, Chief Executive, RTPI
THE
GOOD
Reasons to be positive about
planning for housing
Permissions and completions• Net additional dwellings highest
since 2007-8, up 78% since 2012-13
to 222,190
• Latest - 351,700 homes granted
permission in year to June 2018
• More applications decided with in
target period
30
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
80
90
0
10,000
20,000
30,000
40,000
50,000
60,000
70,000
80,000
2010/11 2011/12 2012/13 2013/14 2014/15 2015/16 2016/17 2017/18
% d
ecid
ed in
tar
get
per
iod
No
. of
app
licat
ion
s
English residential planning applications (approved and decided within target period)
Total approved residential planning applications Total decided in target period
Source: MHCLG Live Table T120a
The Housebuilding Forum 2019: Victoria Hills, RTPI.
Local authorities returning to housebuilding
• 2017 RTPI research led by Prof
Janice Morphet from UCL
• 65% of local authorities directly
involved in housing provision
and only 9% not involved at all
• Table of activity for every English
council
• Now strong support from
Government
• Phase 2 research to be
published soon focusing on role
of planning
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THE
BAD
Areas where planning for
housing is not going well
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Resourcing of local planning authorities
• National Audit Office: recent
report identified a 40% fall in real
expenditure by local authorities
on planning and said they were
not on track to meet Govt targets
• Local authorities increasingly
reliant on revenue raising (pre-
apps and PPAs)
• 2018 RTPI research on
resourcing in SE and NW found
shift from placeshaping activities
to core statutory functions
• 20% fee increase will not fill this
resource gap
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Failures in planning for housing
• Many local authorities still not adopted up-to-date local plans
• Failure to link housing and infrastructure
• Lack of monitoring
Source: RTPI, Location of Development, 2018
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Failures in affordability
• House price to earnings ratio
up to 7.9 in 2017 and rising
each year
• Increasing reliance on S106
to fund affordable housing at
expense of other crucial
social and physical
infrastructure.
• Despite this just 4600 homes
for social rent completed in
2017-18
MHCLG, 2018
Lord et al (2018)
The Housebuilding Forum 2019: Victoria Hills, RTPI.
Gap between permissions and delivery
9
0
50000
100000
150000
200000
250000
300000
350000
2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017
Homes permitted, started and completed in England
Permissions Starts Completions
Source: Table 213 House building: permanent dwellings started and completed, by tenure1, England (quarterly)2, 3Source: Glenigan planning permission data cited in MHCLG (2018)
Permitted development
10 Photo: Martin Godwin for the Guardian
THE
BEAUTIFUL
RTPI Awards for Planning
Excellence
The Housebuilding Forum 2019: Victoria Hills, RTPI.
Enfield Small Sites Programme, HTA Design
credit: Peter Barber and Enfield Council
The Housebuilding Forum 2019: Victoria Hills, RTPI.
The Nelson Project, Plymouth City Council
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Credit: Interserve
The Housebuilding Forum 2019: Victoria Hills, RTPI.
Carrowbreck Meadow, NPS Group
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Credit: Jefferson Smith
THE
FUTURE
The future of planning and
RTPI’s role in securing it
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Better planning for quality &
affordable housing
• Taking a strategic view
• Building strong and responsive
local planning authorities
• Creating policy and investment
environments that promote
housing affordability
• Developing and diversifying the
housing sector
• Making the most of data and
new technology
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Thanks for listening
Victoria Hills MRTPI
@VictoriaRTPI