A Strategic Planning and Investment Framework for Surrey
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A Strategic Planning and Investment Framework for Surrey Sue Janota Jack Straw Surrey County Council Mole Valley District Council
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A presentation at a Planning Advisory Service event by Sue Janota, Surrey County Council and Jack Straw, Mole Valley District Council.
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A Strategic Planning and Investment Framework for
Surrey
Sue Janota Jack Straw
Surrey County Council Mole Valley District Council
Surrey.......
A beautiful place
An economic powerhouse
1.15 million residents
Surrey.......11 districts and boroughs
2 LEPs
6 SHMA areas
? Functional economic areas
Why work together?• Failed Local Plan Examinations
• Higher bar for Duty to Co-operate
• Further Alterations to the London Plan and future Full Review
• Securing funding from the LEPs
• Airport expansion
• Leaders keen to lobby Government for strategic infrastructure investment
Challenges
• Meeting objectively assessed housing needs
• A shared view of growth
• Cross-boundary working
• Effective engagement with London
• Co-ordinating investment
Where to start?
• Build on existing relationships
• April 2014 Workshop
• Understanding the challenges
SURREY PLANNING
OFFICERS’ASSOCIATION
A Strategic Planning and Investment Framework
• Terms of Reference
• Memorandum of Understanding
• Local Strategic Statement – 2 stages
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The Signatories to a Memorandum of Understanding dated [ ] have agreed to meet for the purposes set out in these terms of reference to provide a vehicle for cooperation and joint working between local authorities within Surrey.
SURREY STRATEGIC PLANNING AND INFRASTRUCTURE PARTNERSHIP
Where are we now?
The easy bit............
Stage 1 - Evidence gathering
– SHMAs
– Green Belt reviews
– Surrey Infrastructure Plan
– LEP SEPs
– Land supply
BUT Politicians still not all signed up
“We want to work with you but we don’t want to sign”
Next steps
Stage 2 - Bringing it all together spatially........... If Leaders agree
? Addressing the shortfall
? Potential areas for growth and strategic sites
? To what extent
Facilitated discussions with Leaders
?
Issues
• Convincing everyone to sign up
• Cross-boundary working - London, Hants and Sussex .....
• Leaders in total control – how to bring portfolio holders and backbenchers along?
• Faltering Local Plan progress
• May 2015 elections
“Councils must protect our precious
green belt land”
Still feeling our way.......
• Timescales have slipped
– Mid -2015 end of evidence gathering?
• London Plan Review
– Which demographic projections?
