HOW WILL WE MONITOR PROGRESS?
15.1
The Plan contains a number of strategic objectives. For each objective, a number of targets and indicators have been identified. Progress against these will be monitored by the following means:
• Measuring the amount and type of development - e.g. the number of new houses; amount of land developed for employment uses etc.;
• Monitoring compliance with the Plan policies when the Council makes decisions on planning applications; and
• Monitoring any loss of environmental assets protected by the Plan.
15.2
An annual monitoring report will be produced. If it appears that the targets are not being met, or have no longer become appropriate, suitable adjustments will be made in a future review of this Plan.
INDICATORS AND TARGETS
15.3
The government has produced a set of national core indicators against which the success of local planning documents can be assessed. The Council will use the national indicators (indicated in table 15.1 below) to monitor progress in implementing the policies of this UDP. The Council is also considering developing a set of local indicators which can be used with other Merseyside authorities to monitor planning issues on a sub-regional basis.
TABLE 15.1
Indicators of success and targets
CHAPTER 5 "HOUSING"
• Housing trajectory showing:
i. net additional dwellings over the previous five year period or since 1st April 2002 (the start of the UDP Plan period) whichever is the longer;
ii. net additional dwellings for the current year;
iii. projected net additional dwellings for the following five years and up to 2016;
iv. the annual net additional dwelling requirement; and
v. annual average number of net additional dwellings needed to meet overall housing requirements, having regard to previous year's performance.
(TARGET: PROJECTED NET NUMBER OF DWELLING COMPLETIONS BETWEEN 1ST APRIL 2002 AND 1ST APRIL 2016, AND OVER ANY FIVE YEAR PERIOD BETWEEN THESE DATES, TO EQUATE TO 230 PER YEAR)
• Percentage of new and converted dwellings on previously developed land (TARGET: 65%).
• Percentage of new dwellings completed at:
i. less than 30 dwellings per hectare;
ii. between 30 and 50 dwellings per hectare; and
iii. Above 50 dwellings per hectare.
• Affordable housing completions.
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CHAPTER 6 "ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT"
• Amount of floorspace developed for employment by type.
• Amount of floorspace developed for employment, by type, which is in employment or regeneration areas defined in the UDP.
• Amount of floorspace by employment type which is on previously developed land.
• Employment land available by type.
• Losses of employment land in (i) employment/regeneration areas and (ii) the whole of Knowsley.
• Amount of employment land lost to residential development.
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CHAPTER 7 "TOWN CENTRES AND SHOPPING"
• Amount of completed retail, office and leisure development.
• Amount of completed retail, office and leisure development in town centres.
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CHAPTER 8 "TRANSPORT"
• Amount of completed non-residential development within Use Classes Order A, B and D complying with car parking standards to be set out in the local development framework.
• Amount of new residential development within 30 minutes public transport time of a GP, hospital, primary school, secondary school, areas of employment and a major retail centre(s).
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CHAPTER 9 "GREEN BELT AND THE RURAL ECONOMY"
Indicators yet to be defined.
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CHAPTER 10 "URBAN GREENSPACE, SPORT AND RECREATION"
• Amount of eligible open spaces managed to green flag award standard.
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CHAPTER 11 "DESIGN QUALITY AND THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT"
Indicators yet to be defined.
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CHAPTER 12 "MINERALS, WASTE AND ENERGY"
• Production of primary land won aggregates.
• Production of secondary/recycled aggregates.
• Capacity of new waste management facilities by type.
• Amount of municipal waste arising, and managed by management type, and the percentage each management type represents of the waste managed.
• Renewable energy capacity installed by type.
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CHAPTER 13 "ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AND NATURE CONSERVATION"
• Number of planning permissions granted contrary to the advice of the Environment Agency on either flood defence grounds or water quality.
• Change in areas and populations of biodiversity importance, including:
i. change in priority habitats and species (by type); and
ii. change in areas designated for their intrinsic environmental value including sites of international, national, regional or sub-regional significance.
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FUTURE REVIEW OF THE PLAN
15.4
The Plan aims to provide a vision for new development and land use over the whole period to 2016. Inevitably, however, circumstances will change and new development and conservation needs will emerge in the next few years. The Plan will in due course be replaced by new planning documents, prepared under the new planning system introduced by the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004. These new documents will take account of the performance of this UDP against the indicators and targets which have been set, and will replace, amend or continue the policies as appropriate.
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