An effective planning system helps to ensure that development takes place in a way that is economically, socially and environmentally sustainable. It is a necessity for the encouragement of economic growth, sustainable development and cohesive community interaction. As the government looks to promote economic growth within the Big Society, the Department for Communities and Local Government are reforming the planning system to make it less complex, and more accessible whilst promoting sustainable growth.
The coalition has outlined radical reforms to the planning system which will give neighbourhoods and citizens far more ability to determine the shape of the places they live. The recent consultation on the draft National Planning Policy Framework provided local communities and planning stakeholders with the opportunity to better understand how to create a concise policy framework in which economic growth and sustainable development can be delivered.
Following the recent passing of the Localism Act (2011), the government will now look to transfer power to local people through the introductions of community right to build orders, local plans, and through the use of local referendums. Reforms will decentralise the planning system; ending top-down control over local planning decisions and ensuring democratic accountability exists at the local level. A new system will be implemented with local authorities and stakeholders playing a wider role than ever before in planning for, and developing their communities.
Agenda
Drawing on responses to the Localism Act and the recently concluded consultation on the National Planning Policy Framework, this forum will examine the latest policy developments within the planning system, and will examine how the implementation of new policy will impact local authorities and community stakeholders. Delegates will learn more about the government’s plans for the future of the planning system and how they will play a part in promoting local growth and sustainable development.
Audience
Delegates will include key representatives from central government departments & bodies and local authorities; heads of regeneration, heads of economic development and heads of planning and development. Delegates will also include directors of housing associations, energy and construction industries, planning experts, local developers, regional development organisations, environmental experts, civil and environmental engineers, urban designers and planners, interest groups, academics and all those interested in the planning system.
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