Planning and Regeneration Cabinet Portfolio
Priorities for 2022/23
The Culture and Leisure services have identified the following priorities for 2022/23:
Statement of Community Involvement (SCI)
Priority: A clear Statement of Community Involvement has been adopted for local planning and development management decisions.
Outcome: Member, communities, businesses and local groups are fully informed and engaged in planning decision affecting their area.
Associated corporate plan objectives: Strengthening our communities.
Improve Member engagement with planning
Priority: Deliver improvements to Member engagement with Planning, including the delivery of a wider training programme.
Outcome: Member, communities, businesses and local groups are fully informed and engaged in planning decision affecting their area.
Associated corporate plan objectives: Strengthening our communities.
Buckinghamshire Local Plan
Priority: Significantly progress delivery of the new Buckinghamshire Local Plan
Outcome: To deliver sustainable development in Buckinghamshire; ensuring that development is appropriately mitigated through financial contributions or delivery of works in kind; bringing benefits for people who live, work and visit here.
Associated corporate plan objectives: Strengthening our communities, increasing prosperity and improving our environment.
Manage development within Buckinghamshire
Priority: Continue to proactively manage development within Buckinghamshire through the processing of planning applications.
Outcome: To deliver sustainable development in Buckinghamshire; ensuring that development is appropriately mitigated through financial contributions or delivery of works in kind; bringing benefits for people who live, work and visit here.
Associated corporate plan objectives: Strengthening our communities, increasing prosperity and improving our environment.
Keep planning decisions local
Priority: Keep planning decisions local with five planning committees.
Outcome: Supporting localism and to ensure appropriate, open, and transparent scrutiny of planning officers’ recommendations.
Associated corporate plan objectives: Increasing prosperity and improving our environment.
Neighbourhood Plans
Priority: Supporting the continued development of Neighbourhood Plans across the county.
Outcome: Supporting localism and to ensure appropriate, open, and transparent scrutiny of planning officers’ recommendations.
Associated corporate plan objectives: Strengthening our communities, increasing prosperity and improving our environment.
Building regulations
Priority: Ensuring that buildings are designed and constructed in accordance with the Building Regulations and associated legislation.
Outcome: Protecting the Health and Safety of people who live, work and visit Buckinghamshire through enforcement against non-compliant building works and management of dangerous structures.
Associated corporate plan objectives: Improving our environment.
A tough approach to planning enforcement
Priority: Continue our tough new approach to planning enforcement, taking actions where necessary on unauthorized buildings or activities.
Outcome: Protecting Buckinghamshire against harmful development clearly, consistently and proportionately.
Associated corporate plan objectives: Improving our environment.
Green growth
Priority: Focusing our policies and decisions on delivering new ‘green’ growth
Outcome: Contributing to addressing climate change by reducing the carbon impact of new development and growth through planning policy and building regulations.
Associated corporate plan objectives: Increasing prosperity and improving our environment.
Energy efficiency standards for new developments
Priority: Introducing higher, more energy efficient standards for all new developments.
Outcome: Contributing to addressing climate change by reducing the carbon impact of new development and growth through planning policy and building regulations.
Associated corporate plan objectives: Increasing prosperity.
Planning Improvement Board
Priority: Leading the Planning Improvement Board to deliver lasting and consistent improvements to the planning service.
Outcome: Deliver a modern and digital planning service which is simple, accessible and transparent and makes timely, high-quality decisions. Establishing an empowered culture within the service, building skills, capability and capacity.
Associated corporate plan objectives: Increasing prosperity; strengthening our communities and improving our environment.
Garden Towns and town centre regeneration
Priority: Continuing our commitment to Aylesbury Garden Town and focus on the regeneration of Aylesbury, High Wycombe and other town centres, including:
- through the development of a regeneration framework
- delivery of Future High Street Fund Schemes in High Wycombe
- delivering next generation town centres
Outcome: Ensuring that Buckinghamshire is an attractive place to live, work and visit and supporting local economies to thrive.
Associated corporate plan objectives: Increasing prosperity.
Design Awards
Priority: Successfully implement a two-yearly Design Awards scheme. Undertake a programme of Conservation Area Appraisal work.
Outcome: Promoting good design across Buckinghamshire and protect valued heritage assets.
Associated corporate plan objectives: Improving our environment.
Market Strategy
Priority: Development of a Market Strategy.
Outcome: Ensuring strategic delivery of our market offer.
Associated corporate plan objectives: Increasing Prosperity.