"Planning for a Sustainable Future"

Paper Summary:

The paper discusses the White Paper, "Planning for a Sustainable Future" which has two salient facets, a focus upon the consent regimes surrounding major infrastructure projects (MIPs) and a new method for funding local infrastructure, the Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL). Next it considers the political dimension of our sustainable future by evaluating the likely implications the new proposals will have upon consultation and public participation on MIPs. The paper also provides an overview of the existing consent regime, and then illustrates the proposed changes for consultation and public participation in particular, and the reasoning behind them. The paper then details the philosophy and procedures of the CIL, and discusses the significant benefits and problems that its implementation may instigate and compares how the CIL relates to existing planning obligation tools.

Outline:
Introduction
Consultation and public participation within the new MIPs consent regime
The Community Infrastructure Levy: key benefits
and problems
Problems
Benefits
Good or Bad

From the Paper:

"Evidently it appears that this stage of consultation and participation is reserved for organisations and bodies from government and civil society, except where specific reference to localities is made which would lead to a far more extensive and localised consultation, including local communities and local authorities. However, the absence of specifics or further guidance makes it difficult to assess exactly what form or by what process such a consultation would take at this stage. It is noted within the white paper that it will be very much dependent upon the content of the suggested policy."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Barker K (2006) Barker Review of Land Use Planning: Final Report, London: Barker Review of Planning
• Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE) (2007) A Green Light for Big Business? Planning White Paper [Online] Available from: http://www.cpre.org.uk/news/view/387
• Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE) (2006) 'Barker up theWrong Tree', 5 December, www.cpre.org.uk
• Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) (2008) Community Infrastructure Levy, London: DCLG
• Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) (2006) Strong and Prosperous Communities: The Local Government White Paper, London: DCLG

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