Setting the Scene – Planning in Plymouth

Richard Grant Local Planning Team Leader – Plymouth City Council

Building a healthier south west: best practice in health and planning

Plymouth’s Vision

Plymouth aspires to become:-

One of Europe’s finest, most vibrant waterfront cities, where an outstanding quality of life is enjoyed by everyone.

To Deliver this Vision

Over Time 2006 To move forward 2021+

Aspire

Turning aspirations into reality to become one of

Europe’s finest •Prioritising areas for regeneration

Realising Plymouth’s potential for long term sustainable growth:

•Diversifying the Economy •Accommodating change •Living within environmental limits •Making fundamental shifts in travel patterns •Increase critical mass to support services

Prioritise the Waterfront areas, as well as the Eastern & Northern Corridors 42,000 new jobs in the TTWA / 27,500 new jobs in PUA

32,000 homes /172,000sq.m. comparison retail /schools Moving towards Carbon Neutrality

Promoting sustainable transport

Re-building our communities + Design excellence

•Building on the city’s heritage

It is about delivering a significant step change in the quality, pac and intensity of development.

Growth to 300,000+

A Spatial Strategy

The top down view

Waterfront Regeneration Areas

Area Action Plans Jobs /Retail Homes Devonport Empl 1ha, Retail 1,800sq.m. 1,050 Millbay Empl 2ha, Retail 9,000sq.m. 1,500 City Centre Empl 4ha, Retail 97,000sq.m 1,100+ Sutton Harbour Empl 2ha, Retail 28,000sq.m. 1,890 East End Retail 5,000 sq.m. 1,267 Hoe - 654 Central Park - 123

Sustainable Linked Communities

Sustainable Linked Communities

Plymouth’s LDF foundations are based on building a city of Sustainable Linked Communities: Recognising that the relationship within & between neighbourhoods determines how the city functions has been central to our plan making process.

Sustainable Neighbourhood Assessments

LDF Documents Status

Core Strategy + Criteria Based Policies Adopted 23/04/07

N.Plymstock AAP + Minerals DPD Adopted 06/08/07

Devonport AAP Adopted 06/08/07

Millbay /Stonehouse AAP Adopted 06/08/07

Waste DPD Adopted 21/04/08

Sutton Harbour AAP Adopted 28/07/08

Central Park AAP Adopted 28/07/08

City Centre & University AAP Adopted 26/04/10

Derriford /Seaton AAP Examination 03/13

Sustainable Neighbourhoods DPD Plymouth Plan

Urban Fringe DPD Plymouth Plan

Hoe AAP Plymouth Plan

East End AAP Plymouth Plan

The LDF

And it is working…

Planning Committee approved £1,571,730,619 of development in the last 3 years

£300million invested in regenerating waterfront neighbourhoods house prices outperformed the national average by 23% over the

last 10 years over £40m secured to deliver transport infrastructure in the last

two years over 30,000 students in a huge talent pool and a University

working in partnership A unique growth fund to support strategic development projects

Royal William Yard, and major opportunity sites at Derriford in PCC ownership

Well supported City Centre and Waterfront Business Improvement Districts

So Where Next….?

The Plymouth Plan

A New Local Plan

The Plymouth Plan – looking forward to 2031

‘A plan for Plymouth that can achieve the vision in an ambitious but realistic way, and is signed up and delivered by businesses, investors, the public sector and local communities.’

Key Principles

140 Strategies into One? Be about both people and place,

outward facing, outcome focused and provide the context for all other plans and the allocation of resources

The Strategic Plan – with Action and Delivery Plans following later

Be produced in an inclusive and cooperative way with our partners and all other stakeholders in the city and sub region

Some of the ‘crunchy’ issues

How to take our Economic Growth Strategy forwards?

Life expectancy inequality across the city Health inequalities Our role in the region and sub region –

relationship with the LEP Our ageing population How will climate change affect Plymouth and what

is our resilience? The future of Plymouth Airport Neighbourhood Plans More…..?

The Spatial Dimension

…use of social media

…the conversation so far

Collecting comments

People and place

Source: Hugh Barton and Marcus Grant

The Plymouth Plan Process

September 2012 – May 2013 – The Conversation: Collaborate and engage widely Develop evidence base Develop Subject Papers

June 2013 – The Debate Plymouth convention to consult and debate

Autumn 2013 – Formal Engagement Issues and Preferred Options

Summer 2014 - Pre-Submission Engagement on the draft Plan