Cornish Social & Economic Research Group

17 July 2008

 

Kerrier have just released their new plan for Camborne, Pool, Illogan, and Redruth. This sets out the developing options for the area. Exhibitions will be held as set out below. There are a number taking place during the next couple of weeks - all exhibitions are open from noon to 8.30pm:

 

•  Camborne - Tuesday 22nd July at Camborne Centenary Centre

•  Redruth - Thursday 24 July at Memorial Hall (next to Wesley Chapel)

•  Illogan - Tuesday 29th July at Penwartha Hall

•  Pool - Thursday 31st July at Trevenson Community Hall

 

There will also be displays at Camborne and Redruth libraries and Tesco Extra, Pool throughout August. You can also feed back your comments by:

 

• E-mail (follow link to Planning Policy Team below)

• Writing to the Planning Policy Team (Details here)

• Public Access - Local Development Framework

 

Links to documents
Camborne, Pool, Illogan and Redruth Area Action Plan - Developing Options [2.8Mb]
Guidance questions - Camborne, Pool, Illogan and Redruth Area Action Plan [11kb]
Camborne, Pool, Illogan and Redruth Area Action Plan - Developing Options - SUMMARY DOCUMENT [1.2Mb]
Notification Letter [24kb]
Initial Sustainability Appraisal [374kb]
www.kerrier.gov.uk/index.cfm

 

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Regions 'need own MP committees'
BBC, Thursday, 10 July 2008

 

Select committees should be created for England's regions so MPs can check the work of Regional Development Agencies, a Parliamentary committee has said.

 

"Regular, robust" scrutiny was needed of RDAs around England, the Commons Modernisation Committee added. Up to 10 MPs would sit on each regional select committee, most of them local.

 

England's nine regions are the East and West Midlands, North East, North West, East, South East, South West, Yorkshire and the Humber, and London. Regional Development Agencies had "significant budgets" and a "central role" in co-ordinating the economy and budgets of an area, the Modernisation Committee said. It was for these reasons that they should be "the chief focus" of the new select committees, it added. In addition there would be a number of "grand committees", made up of a greater number of MPs, which would have the power to question England's regional ministers. It recommends that these changes be introduced before the end of the current Parliamentary year, in early December, and then reviewed.

 

Source page....news.bbc.co.uk

 

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Minister warns on housing market,
BBC, Wednesday, 9 July 2008

 

Commons leader Harriet Harman has told MPs there is "grave cause for concern" about the housing market but said the government was "taking action".

 

Lib Dem Vincent Cable had urged the government to "get its priorities right" and recognise the "deep crisis". Ms Harman, filling in for Gordon Brown at prime minister's questions, said she agreed it was "serious" but said it was not as bad as during the 1990s. She highlighted ministers' action such as £200m given to buy up unsold homes. Mr Cable said the Housing Corporation proposal was a good one, but a "drop in the ocean". He said: "Can't the government get its priorities right...? "Could the government acknowledge we've now got a very deep crisis in the housing market - probably the worst in our lifetime, leading into a serious recession? "It's time the government accepted responsibility for dealing with that."

 

For more... news.bbc.co.uk

 

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Regional Spatial Strategy and Local Development Framework: Core output indicators - Update 2/2008
Departments: Communities and Local Government, Document type: Guidance,
Date of publication: 10 July 2008

 

Summary: This document contains revised core output indicators for regional planning bodies and local planning authorities to report on as part of the approach to regional and local monitoring set out in Planning Policy Statement 11: Regional spatial strategies and Planning Policy Statement 12: Local spatial planning and accompanying monitoring guidance.

 

Regional Spatial Strategy and Local Development Framework: Core Output Indicators - Update 2/2008
Published: 10 July 2008, Type(s): Good practice and guidance, Site: Planning, building and the environment.

 

Summary: This document contains revised core output indicators for regional planning bodies and local planning authorities to report on in their Annual Monitoring Reports as part of the approach to regional and local monitoring set out in Planning Policy Statement 11: Regional Spatial Strategies (PPS11) and Planning Policy Statement 12: Local Spatial Planning (PPS12) and accompanying monitoring guidance.

 

This replaces Core Output Indicators for Regional Planning (published in March 2005); Local Development Framework Core Output Indicators Update 1/2005 (published in October 2005) and Table 4.4 and Annex B of the Local Development Framework Monitoring: A Good Practice Guide (published in March 2005).

 

For documnet...Regional Spatial Strategy and Local Development Framework: Core Output Indicators - Update 2/2008 PDF, 159 kb , 32 pages

 

Source page...www.communities.gov.uk

 

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Local Development Frameworks: Examining development plan documents - Soundness guidance
Departments: Planning Inspectorate, Document type: Guidance,
Date of publication: 11 July 2008

 

Summary: This document provides guidance to local planning authorities and all those involved in the development plan document examination process. It sets out the approach that will be taken to assess whether a plan has been prepared in accordance with the legislative requirements and to establish whether it is sound.

 

For more....www.planning-inspectorate.gov.uk (PDF format, 1.8 Mb)

 

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Housing Market Renewal: Action plan for delivering successful places
Departments: Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment; English Heritage; Sustainable Development Commission, Document type: Policy document,
Date of publication: 11 July 2008

 

Summary: This action plan, put forward jointly by CABE, English Heritage and the Sustainable Development Commission, proposes a shift in the planning agenda away from housing and towards a broad-based, design-led regeneration programme, with placemaking at its centre. It pays particular attention to the government’s programme for delivering housing-led regeneration across 12 areas in the north of England and the West Midlands.

 

For more....www.cabe.org.uk (PDF format, 930 Kb)

 

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Proposed Changes to Planning Policy Statement 6: Planning for Town Centres - Consultation
Departments: Communities and Local Government, Document type: Consultation paper,
Date of publication: 10 July 2008, Deadline date: 3 October 2008

 

Summary: This consultation seeks views on revisions to Planning Policy Statement 6 following the commitment to review the current approach to assessing the impact of proposals outside town centres. The proposals emphasise the importance of maintaining a strong focus on town centre policy, promoting competition and improving consumer choice.

 

For more...www.info4local.gov.uk

 

Summary: This consultation on revisions to Planning Policy Statement (PPS) 6 follows the commitment in the Planning White Paper 'Planning for a Sustainable Future' to review the current approach in PPS6 to assessing the impact of proposals outside town centres, in a way which maintains a strong focus on our town centre first policy, and which promotes competition and improves consumer choice.

 

For more...Proposed Changes to Planning Policy Statement 6: Planning for Town Centres - Consultation PDF, 594 kb , 88 pages

 

Further information...www.communities.gov.uk

 

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Hedges fund wealth of wildlife and landscapes

 

Healthy hedgerows are the backbone of many of our most loved landscapes and critical to the survival of much our rarest wildlife. Now an alliance of organisations have got together to promote essential hedgerow management with a new film to be launched at the Royal Show today (Friday 4th July).

 

* A Cut Above The Rest is available as a DVD free from Natural England’s Enquiry Service 0845 600 3078;
Email:naturalengland

 

For more....www.naturalengland.org.uk

 

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Think-tank urges regional plans to consider housing increases
Departments:
Document type:

Date of publication:


 

Regional planners have been advised to consider increasing housing provision across England by up to a further half a million homes by 2020 in a bid to improve affordability. That's the upper level of new housing supply additions outlined by a Government think-tank, the National Housing and Planning Advice Unit (NHPAU), in a paper just published which takes into account demographic, economic and housing affordability trends. Ministers will now consider how the unit's advice will be translated into guidance for regional planning bodies as they review their regional spatial strategies (RSSs). The unit has stressed that the figures in its long-run housing supply ranges are not targets.

 

Download the NHPAU document....www.communities.gov.uk

 

Further information.....www.planningportal.gov.uk

 

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Public Space Lessons: Adapting public space to climate change
Departments: Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment, Document type: Guidance,
Date of publication: 3 July 2008

 

Summary: This briefing sets out the lessons learned in the UK and around the world from using public spaces to adapt to climate change. It offers guidance on how to adapt towns and cities through thoughtfully designed public spaces offering water storage, cooling and carbon absorption.

 

For more....www.info4local.gov.uk

 

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Household Debt Monitoring Paper
Departments: Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, Document type: Research,
Date of publication: 2 July 2008

 

Summary: This paper covers research on consumer lending and household debt.

 

To see document...www.info4local.gov.uk

 

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Rapid Evidence Review of the Research Literature on the Impact of Worsening Affordability
Departments: Guest contributor, Document type: Research,
Date of publication: 2 July 2008

 

Summary: This paper presents an evidence review of research literature on the impact of the worsening affordability of the housing market.

 

Further information....Rapid evidence review of the research literature on the impact of worsening affordability

 

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Affordability Still Matters
Departments: Guest contributor, Document type: Research,
Date of publication: 2 July 2008

 

Summary: This report covers research showing that, despite current market conditions, housing affordability does still matter.

 

Further information....Affordability Still Matters

 

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National Housing and Planning Advice Unit Research Findings
Number Three: Public attitudes towards the affordability of market
housing
Departments: Guest contributor, Document type: Research,
Date of publication: 2 July 2008

 

Summary: This paper presents the findings of a 2008 survey on public attitudes towards the affordability of market housing.

 

Further information....NHPAU Research Findings No. 3: Public attitudes towards the affordability of market housing

 

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The Growth Fund 2008-2011: Consultation
Departments: Communities and Local Government, Document type: Consultation paper,
Deadline date: 7 July 2008

 

Summary:This consultation seeks views on proposals for the Growth Fund, which is the new mechanism by which funding for places pursuing growth will be provided for the period 2008-11.

 

Further information.....Consultation paper

 

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Carbon Pathways Analysis: Informing development of a carbon reduction strategy for the transport sector
Departments: Department for Transport, Document type: Research,
Date of publication: 1 July 2008

 

Summary: This report considers the transport sector's role as a significant contributor to the UK’s atmospheric emissions and how the sector can reduce its environmental impact in future.

 

further information....Carbon Pathways Analysis

 

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First study of its kind into greenhouse gas emissions from farms,
Date of publication: 30 June 2008,


 

The first study of its kind to provide detailed measurement of greenhouse gas emissions from farms in England has revealed big differences from one agricultural sector to another. Farmers are today urged to go online and use the CALM (Carbon Accounting for Land Managers) calculator to measure their farms’ greenhouse gas emissions. They can then compare their results against the range found in this Natural England study.

 

The comprehensive study of 200 farms comes at a time when the agricultural industry is increasingly aware it must take steps to reduce its carbon footprint, particularly emissions of nitrous oxide and methane. Agriculture is responsible for the majority of the UK’s nitrous oxide emissions caused by microbial activity in soils as a result of the application of nitrogen fertilizers – both organic and inorganic – essential for healthy crop growth. Methane emissions come mainly from livestock and manures. Both gases have a proportionally higher global warming potency than carbon dioxide.

 

The study shows that a typical 100 hectare cereal farm will emit the equivalent emissions of 78 cars or 50 average households in an average year. The CALM (Carbon Accounting for Land Managers) calculator is free via the CLA website, www.cla.org.uk, and the findings are regarded as a first step towards a benchmarking approach to improving awareness and management of the greenhouse gas impact of UK farms. The full report can be found at www.naturalengland.org.uk/research/climate-energy/docs/calmreportfinal.pdf [960 kB] http://www.naturalengland.org.uk/press/news2008/300608.htm _______________________________________________
Consultation: Prosperous places - Taking forward the review of sub-national economic development and regeneration (HTML format)
Document type: Research
Departments: Communities and Local Government; Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform. Consultation paper.
Date of publication: 31 March 2008,
Deadline date: 20 June 2008


 

Summary

This consultation seeks views on proposals to support regional economic growth in England.

For more.....

Consultation: Prosperous places - Taking forward the review of sub-national economic development and regeneration (PDF format, 490 Kb)

 

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Why Place Matters and Implications for the Role of Central, Regional and Local Government (HTML format)
Document type: Research
Departments: Communities and Local Government
Date of publication: 31 March 2008,


 

Summary

This is the second in a series of papers highlighting key pieces of economic and analytical work undertaken within or on behalf of Communities and Local Government. It highlights some of the analysis that fed into and supported a number of recommendations in the review of sub-national economic development and regeneration, including empowering local authorities to promote economic development and neighbourhood renewal, while recognising the benefits of supporting local authorities to work together at the sub-regional level.

For more.....

www.info4local.gov.uk

 

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Planning and Optimal Geographical Levels for Economic Decision-making: The sub-regional role (HTML format)
Document type: Research
Departments: Communities and Local Government
Date of publication: 31 March 2008,


 

Summary

This document applies the levels of intervention approach to economic policy areas, with a particular focus on planning, to support understanding of the appropriate role of different government levels. Conclusions, further outlined in the Review of Sub-National Economic Development and Regeneration, include the need for further sub-regional involvement in planning policy, with a necessary provision of incentives to encourage sub-regional cooperation on planning issues.

For more.....

www.info4local.gov.uk

 

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Communities and Local Government, Consultation paper
Date of publication: 17 December 2007, Deadline date: 17 March 2008.


 

Summary:

This consultation paper seeks comments on a draft planning policy statement on