{"id":49,"date":"2010-03-19T10:32:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-19T10:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/geoplanit.co.uk\/?p=49"},"modified":"2010-03-19T10:32:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-19T10:32:00","slug":"article-fit-for-purpose-%e2%80%93-dismal-progress-with-ldfs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/?p=49","title":{"rendered":"Article: Fit for Purpose? \u2013 dismal progress with LDFs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.garsdaledesign.co.uk\/index.php\/quicklinks\/planning-news\/114-fit-for-purpose-dismal-progress-with-ldfs\">Article: Fit for Purpose? \u2013 dismal progress with LDFs <\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Yet more evidence has emerged recently which serves to underline the  problems with the new plan-making system introduced only six years ago.  Ministers hailed the Planning and Compensation Act, 2004 as heralding a  new era in urban planning. They promised faster and cheaper plans and  ones with more public engagement.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This article is written by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.garsdaledesign.co.uk\/index.php\/profile\/60-derrick-hartley\">Derrick <\/a>where I work at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gardaledesign.co.uk\/\">Garsdale Design<\/a>, LDFs from my perspective as a former Development Control Officer have always been mixed bag.&nbsp;&nbsp; I understand the desire to improve and simplify the system but the LDF process has become more cumbersome than the previous Local Plan system.&nbsp;&nbsp; It&#8217;s a shame because there were some good ideas in the LDF system and Planning is such an important part of government (national, regional and local). <\/p>\n<p>Derrick highlights problems with actually completing this new LDF process by Local Planning Authorities and that Planners are of the opinion that this new system has <b>not <\/b>made quicker the process of plan making. &nbsp; I&#8217;m sure anyone who has worked in a Local Authority as a Planner (Policy or Development Control) could tell you they don&#8217;t need a survey to tell them that!<\/p>\n<p>My concern is that this plan making process is furthering the feeling of disenfranchisement that the public already have.&nbsp;&nbsp; This is a difficult area, on the one hand a lot of the public feel big development will just be passed regardless of their opinion.&nbsp; At the same time people applying for extensions or dwellings feel thwarted at every turn by red tape and strange ideas about what is accpetable development (I can&#8217;t have PVC windows?).&nbsp;&nbsp; Yet Developers see the system as overly complicated and very slow. &nbsp; Pleasing all sides was always going to be difficult.&nbsp;&nbsp; Unfortunatley what&#8217;s certain is that the Planning system needs to change <i>again<\/i>, lets hope whoever gets in after the election learns from previous mistakes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Article: Fit for Purpose? \u2013 dismal progress with LDFs Yet more evidence has emerged recently which serves to underline the problems with the new plan-making system introduced only six years ago. Ministers hailed the Planning and Compensation Act, 2004 as heralding a new era in urban planning. They promised faster and cheaper plans and ones [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71,72,60,25],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-49","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-gdl","7":"category-ldf","8":"category-opinion","9":"category-planning"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}