A Strategic Planning and Investment Framework for Surrey

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

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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?

Any questions?