The Derbyshire Dales Local Plan was adopted in
2017. The District Council has a mandate to undertake work on a
Developer Contributions Supplementary Planning Document to
establish contributions for affordable housing and other
infrastructure.
The recently published Planning Practice Guidance
states at para 004 “Plan should set out policies for the
contributions expected from development to enable fair and open
testing of the policy at examination. This should include
setting out the levels and types of affordable housing provision
required along with other infrastructure…..Supplementary
planning documents should not be used to add unnecessarily to
the financial burdens on development and should not be used to
set rates or charges which have not been established through
development plan policy.”
We would welcome your views on the interpretation
of this paragraph, and indeed whether the detailed rates and
charges should be set out in a Local Plan rather than SPD.
Furthermore whether any Developer Contributions SPD have been
prepared and challenged on this issue and if so how it was dealt with?
