10 Years of The Planning Act: what lessons can we learn?
You are completing this survey as an organisation that has not engaged with the DCO regime established by the Planning Act 2008.
A study by Copper, Barton Willmore and Womble Bond Dickinson

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* 1. Please select which category you consider your organisation fits into:

Developer

Investor

Consultee

Decision Maker

Local Authority

Consultant / other (Please state which - Lawyer, Transport, Environmental, Planner, Designer, Agent, Communications)

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* 2. How aware are you of the DCO regime established by the Planning Act 2008?

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* 3. Which development sector are you primarily involved in?

Commercial

Mixed-use

Residential

Energy

Transport

Waste

Water

All of the above

Other (please specify)

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* 4. What do you believe are the key challenges with the current planning system when driving new settlements / large-scale mixed-use development? Please tick three.

Clarity of policy

Localised decision making

Uncertainty about timescale for decision making

Uncertainty about outcome of decision making

Cost of the application process

Nature of public consultation

Requirement for multiple consents / fragmented decision making

Protracted compulsory purchase processes

Potential for appeal

Other (please specify)

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* 5. How do you believe the current planning system - policy and consenting process - could be improved to support the delivery of large-scale mixed-use development?

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* 6. If compulsory purchase orders (CPOs) are needed for large, complex projects, what are the key challenges within the current planning system to delivering them?

Reliance on local authority to apply CPO powers (private businesses cannot obtain them)

Dependence upon local political support

Uncertainty of relationship with the local authority

Complexity of procedure/rules when making the case for obtaining CPO powers

Requirement for a comprehensive indemnity to cover all CPO costs

Other or wider comment

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* 7. Do you believe the DCO regime could be appropriate for the consenting of large-scale mixed-use schemes? Please then note your reasons behind this in the text box. (If no, please skip Q8 & Q9).

Why?

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* 8. If YES, do you believe it could be appropriate for development of the following? (Please select all that apply)

New settlements of 25,000 units plus

New settlements of between 10,000 and 25,000 residential dwellings

Urban extensions of between 5,000 to 10,000 dwellings

Urban extensions of between 1,000 and 5,000 dwellings

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* 9. If YES, do you think the DCO regime should be the only consenting mechanism or an option alongside the existing planning regime and Locally Led New Town Corporations?

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* 10. Would you like to be kept up to date on the progress of this research as it develops?

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* 11. Please supply your name and email address. (Your data will not be used for marketing purposes)

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