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THE SURREY DEBATE 2019 HOUSING IN SURREY: HOW CAN WE SQUEEZE IT IN?

18 SEPTEMBER 2019

WELCOME

HUGO BLACK CLA, BREC CHAIRMAN

INTRODUCTION

LUKE WEST, PARTNER, SMITH & WILLIAMSON

ANDREW SHIRLEY

CHIEF SURVEYOR, CLA

1. Historically house builders in the community 2. Now residential landlords, but more are being approached for new build 3. Employment providers 4. Place shapers Can/should we revitalise our role as house builders? And shift from imposition of housing on a community to meeting a real need

ROLE OF LANDOWNERS

1. Housing surveys – ageing population? The young? Affordability? 2. Break link with transport and services 3. Innovative solutions 4. What defines a community are there links between them 5. What do we want to see?

Questions to the asked/answered

1. Prevent Urban Sprawl 2. Stop coalescence of settlements 3. Safeguarding the countryside 4. Setting and character of historic towns 5. Urban regeneration

• It is a planning policy, not a landscape or environmental designation

GREEN BELT (1947)

1. Is it fit for purpose [eroded from the inside, expanded on the outside but leap frogged] 2. Roll of transport hubs 3. Affordable housing and community needs [NPPF 145(f)] 4. Diversification 5. Changes of use of land [NPPF 146(e)] 6. Class Q

FUTURE CONSIDERATIONS

SARAH JANE CHIMBWANDIRA

CEO OF SURREY WILDLIFE TRUST

Recovering Surrey’s Nature

Ecosystem Services

Provisioning Services Regulating Services Cultural Services Supporting Services (Natural Capital)

Nature Recovery Networks – nature based solutions

Convention on Biological Diversity 1992 EU Biodiversity Strategy

• Habitats Regulations

2010

UK Biodiversity Strategy

• Biodiversity 2020
• National Planning Policy Framework
• Making Space for Nature – Lawton

25 Year Environment Plan

• Agriculture Bill
• Environment Bill
• Net Gain

Policy & Legislative Overview for delivering a Nature Recovery Network

Net Gain Potential

• Area of development requiring
• ffsets over next 5 years -

739ha

• Area of habitat

restoration/creation to achieve no net loss - 1,059ha and 84km hedgerow

• This would generate £1.6M

funding for conservation

“A structured, measurable approach to compensating for adverse biodiversity impacts from development, achieved as significant & genuine habitat enhancements, after all best attempts to minimise impacts through avoidance and mitigation have been exhausted.” “Biodiversity Net Gain is an approach to development that leaves biodiversity in a better state than before” (CIEEM).

Biodiversity Net Gain

 ...values Biodiversity in ‘units’ as a product of the extent, rarity and condition

• f habitats

 compensates for loss in units on a like-for-like basis to the same value plus an uplift (= ‘gain’)  presumption that compensation to take place on-site or as close as possible (ie. ‘locally’); only beyond this when necessary...

National Planning Policy Framework 2018 Chapter 15. Conserving & enhancing the natural environment:

• 170. Planning policies & decisions should contribute to and enhance the natural and local

environment by: ‘minimising impacts on and providing net gains for biodiversity, including by establishing coherent ecological networks that are more resilient to current and future pressures’

• 171. Plans should:

‘..take a strategic approach to maintaining and enhancing networks of habitats and green infrastructure; and plan for the enhancement of natural capital at a catchment or landscape scale across local authority boundaries’

• 174. To protect and enhance biodiversity and geodiversity, plans should:

‘.. Identify, map and safeguard components of local wildlife-rich habitats and wider ecological networks, including the hierarchy of international, national and locally designated sites of importance for biodiversity; wildlife corridors and stepping stones that connect them; and areas identified by local partnerships for habitat management, enhancement, restoration or creation; and promote the conservation, restoration and re-creation of priority habitats, ecological networks and the protection and recovery of priority species; and identify and pursue opportunities for securing measurable net gains for biodiversity.’

Priest Hill, Ewell - a case-study in Net Gain site originally worth c.195 Biodiversity Units – this has been more than doubled

TOM FYANS

DEPUTY CHIEF EXECUTIVE, CPRE

CPRE

A thriving beautiful countryside valued and enjoyed by all

PEOPLE’S ENGAGEMENT WITH NATURE

• 89% say spending time outdoors important
• Health and exercise most common reason
• 90% concerned about environmental damage

SURREY’S NATURAL ENVIRONMENT

• Most heavily wooded county in England
• Surrey Hills & High Weald AONBs
• 70% Green Belt

SURREY’S HOUSING CHALLENGE

• Lack of affordable housing
• High & unrealistic housing targets
• Highly constrained by designation

WHAT HOUSING IS REQUIRED?

• Need not demand
• More social housing
• More small scale developments

WHERE SHOULD IT GO?

• Brownfield First
• Public land First?
• Rural Exception sites

WHAT DO WE WANT?

• More funding for rural social housing
• Respect for Environmental constraints
• Land value reform

DAVID LOCK

FOUNDER AND STRATEGIC PLANNING ADVISER, DAVID LOCK ASSOCIATES

COUNTRY LANDOWNERS ASSOCIATION: THE 2019 SURREY DEBATE Seasons Café, Guildford Cathedral, 18 September 2019

HOUSING IN SURREY: HOW CAN WE SQUEEZE IT IN? A Perspective in Seven Minutes

David Lock CBE MRTPI

Strategic Planning Adviser and founder, David Lock Associates (planners and urban designers); Vice President, Town and Country Planning Association; Board member, Ebbsfleet Development Corporation 2014 -2018

REGIONAL PLANNING PRACTICE

Draft revised RPG9, December 2000

RPG9 Core Strategy March 2001

Guildford BC Adopted Plan: the 5 strategic sites, October 2019

Wisley Airfield (dis) Gosden Hill Farm Blackwell Farm Slyfield Ash & Tongham

Redhill Aerodrome location cross border Tandridge, and Reigate & Banstead, Surrey: Garden City proposal

NOW CHOOSE….

• 1. PRIVATE DEVELOPMENT COMPANY
• 2. LOCAL AUTHORITY DIRECT DEVELOPMENT
• 3. PUBLIC/PRIVATE JOINT VENTURE
• 4. NEW TOWN DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION

a) Created and controlled by the Government b) New Form: Created by the Government at local authorities’ request, and controlled by those local authorities

PROMOTE IT OR BE OVERLOOKED MAKE NO LITTLE PLANS DON’T BE GREEDY

• r in defensive mode:

CAMPAIGN FOR STRATEGIC GROWTH PLANS

The baby was thrown out with the bathwater

dlock@davidlock.com 50 North Thirteenth St, Central Milton Keynes, MK9 3BP, UK

DELIVERY OF STRATEGIC DEVELOPMENT THROUGH PLANNING PROCESSES

Voluntary Joint Plan or larger than local strategy? Development Framework SPD (can be superfluous) Outline Application for whole Infrastructure Applics Detailed Applics Construction Local Plan(s) Allocation

Q&A

CHAIRMAN’S SUMMARY

LUKE WEST, SMITH & WILLIAMSON

FUTURE EVENTS

Last chance to secure around £1 million of Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) 3 October 2019 – Reigate, Surrey Forestry Conference – “Supplying more than timber” 9 October 2019 – Newbury Racecourse, Berkshire Tourism Conference 15 October 2019 – Stoke Place, Buckinghamshire Please visit www.cla.org.uk or call 01264 313 434 for further information.

THANK YOU

CLA South East Andover Hampshire T: 01264 313434 E:southeast@cla.org.uk www.cla.org.uk