Secret Planner

@samuelhall0 @yimbyalliance Surely the outcome of allowing people to decide if development happens near them will be no development, because everyone will think it should go ‘somewhere else’?

I really like the bill being introduced today by backbench MPs to create a system of 'street votes'. It provides a route to increasing housing supply through gentle increases to density, while preserving green space & reducing transport emissions. telegraph.co.uk/politics/2021/…

@michaellondonsf Then whatever is left of the affordable requirement (half of it in this example) should be distributed according to local policy BUT favouring affordable rented before all else.

@michaellondonsf Say you have 100 dwellings and a 20% affordable requirement… 10% must be affordable market sales (10 units); and 25% of the 20% (5 units) must be First Homes. So you have 5 First Homes to meet that requirement, and still need a further 5 to meet NPPF 10%

Trying to figure out the best way to explain First Homes and how they relate to other affordable housing tenures, including the 10% discount market sale requirement, to members. Anyone seen any good visual representations?

@michaellondonsf I was referring to the NPPF para 65 requirement to have 10% of the total dwellings as affordable home ownership products.

@SecretTCplanner The discount is 30% (with option for LA to set it at 40 or 50) so where is your 10% from? I have never seen a graphic but can't see the problem. gov.uk/guidance/first…

Thinking about sending a personal response to the white paper consultation saying all the things I wasn’t allowed to say on behalf of my employer. Checked my notes though and it’s just the phrase “this is a joke, right?” over and over again.

@town__planner Only joking a little bit. I would love it if it was called that! 😆

@SecretTCplanner I had thought similar approach is beneficial (though I guess you are half joking 😅) The issue is that there is inequity in some places having GB and others not. In CPH they have green fingers in thier 50 year plan.

Proposal for dealing with the problem of Green Belt perception: a rebranding to something not including the words ‘green’ or ‘belt’. I propose ‘Anti Coalescence Doughnuts’.

On the white paper again today. “Data is the best way to make decisions” (paraphrasing only slightly). Tell that to all the people who got exam results this year.

Ok, so... if your argument is that the current standard method underestimates need by using historic data, how does using existing housing stock as your baseline address that exactly? Bemusement level: rising

Just started reading “Changes to the current planning system”. Current bemusement level: mild

@town__planner @AndrewLainton Nothing mitigates nimbyism!

@AndrewLainton We need more of the right housing and that will mitigate some of the nimbyism.

In ‘The Wrong Answers to the Wrong Questions’ published today with @TCPA thirteen of us counter some of the misconceptions driving the planning reforms announced in England last week: tcpa.org.uk/blog/blog-the-… 1/3

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@AndrewLainton It shows. I’d wager nobody involved has any DM experience.

@PeteJBadger I think a lot of it comes down to human nature though doesn’t it? People are only really motivated to comment on things if they have strong views one way or the other. And the bar seems to be a lot lower if those views are negative.

All this talk of increasing public engagement in planning doesn’t really address the issues. People already have the opportunity to engage, what they lack is the motivation.

@gagaonlager And it’s still one of the more factually accurate parts.

@SecretTCplanner 2nd para of Mr Johnson’s foreword on the future of planning refers to us entering the 2nd decade of the 21st century.

I’ve only got as far as the Prime Minister’s foreword in Planning for the Future, and I’m already annoyed.