Re: Future BVI 157 a,b,c targets - Public forum - Planning Advisory Service (PAS)
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Re: Future BVI 157 a,b,c targets
Hidden away on page 5 of the Planning Statistical Release for Planning APplications September Quarter 2009 (England) is the following quote under Paragraph Departmental Strategic Objective on Development Control (DSO 5.4) "The departments Strategic Objective" is that local authorities, across the country as a whole, should process 80 per cent of major applications within 13 weeks by 2011." I would like to know if there has been any other documents on future targets and if so could someone point me in the direction of them and also to find out if there is any changes to Minors and Others future targets. Regards Keith
and the link to the document is : http://www.communities.gov.uk/documents/statistics/pdf/1417675.pdf Keith
Keith, Thanks for flagging this up and I too would be interested to know. I do recall sometime ago commentary to this effect I believe when new NPI set of Indicators was introduced but cannot point to anything specific. Kelvin
I think there are two things going on that might be relevant. There are existing targets set out as a "Departmental Service Objective" - a target for CLG in other words. They've published an update recently: http://www.communities.gov.uk/documents/corporate/pdf/1411147.pdf You want page page 35. It doesn't get much of a write up: simply that there is a national target of 80% for majors inside 13 weeks. I'm not aware of any sanction for local authorities. The second part is a review of the indicator itself. This is being worked on at the moment: http://www.communities.gov.uk/documents/planningandbuilding/pdf/1419562.pdf "In our response to the Killian Pretty Review, we accepted the need to revise the current approach to performance targets, to move away from a narrow focus on the time taken to decide an application once submitted, to an approach which measures performance in a more holistic way. In July we published a discussion paper on alternative ways of measuring development management performance. Comments on the discussion paper will feed into further research and a series of pilot studies with local planning authorities which are planned to commence in early 2010. Any revised national indicator set would come into force in April 2011." -- My own take on this is that change is coming. I don't think it will just be another ratchet up on NI157, but something else entirely. The trick (as ever) is to focus on "good planning", customer care and an honest approach. I hope that helps, Richard.