DLBP attended the National Planning Summit 2018 on Thursday 10 May at the ILEC Conference Centre in London. Topics for discussion included the review of the Community Infrastructure Levy, the Draft London Plan and also the draft National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF).
We agree with Professor Christine Whitehead of the Government’s Build-out Review Panel – the Letwin Review – who told the Summit that a “very large proportion” of the problem of why planning permissions fail to be built out is an over-reliance on large housing sites. Ms Whitehead added that “between 2008 and 2014, over 50% of permissions were on large sites, and five per cent of the output was on large sites”.
DLBP believes that Councils need a much more nimble and responsive approach to allocating small and medium size sites that can assist with meeting short-term problems with five year land supply.
Please see our thoughts below on the draft NPPF, on behalf of the Gracechurch Group.
