Summary of the RTPI response to the Comprehensive Spending Review
September 2020
This is a summary of the RTPI response to the Government's Comprehensive Spending Review (CSR). The CSR sets out Government spending ambitions.
In this paper we:
- Set out the Government’s plans for housing and infrastructure: further resourcing on planning will be essential for its efficient delivery;
- Demonstrate that planning is currently underfunded;
- Signpost forthcoming evidence of how investing in planning leads to direct economic benefits
and also wider benefits to the economy, society and the environment; - Call for a Planning Delivery Fund of around £500 million over the four years between 2021-22 to 2024-25 which would direct investment into the priority areas of Plan Making; Design Quality; Digital Transformation; Monitoring and Enforcement; Wider Placemaking; Community Engagement; Net Zero; Capacity Building; and Joint Working;
- Show that properly funding planning could mean it was able to achieve higher ambitions in outcomes such as health, housing, air quality and greenspace, with corresponding economic benefits;
- Stress that currently proposed planning reforms will require significant further funding that goes beyond this core ask above because of the cost of running two systems at once and reskilling.
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