Backlog of planning concerns

[colmjude]

Backlog of planning concerns considerations

We have published our complete list of planning considerations. This is a list of things we've heard about or people have told us about.

We plan to work through this list, exploring each thing and seeing if creating and opening up data will solve some users' needs.

If you think we are missing something, please let us know. Tell us:

• what we are missing
• what you know about how it affects planning
• where you think the data would be used, and why

[mattlucht]

On a recent call with Historic England there was reference to a dataset around previously listed buildings (I think!)

[colmjude]

@mattlucht as in buildings that were on the list of listed buildings, and that have now been removed?

[mattlucht]

@colmjude yes, although there's every chance that I misunderstood! If that is the case, maybe it implies that Listed Building records are removed from the dataset

[LanePlanning]

Development Consent Order boundary is missing from the data set. Work need to switch from shapefile to multi polygon but should be part of the planning database as orders are made under Planning Act 2008 for nationally significant infrastructure projects and contain power to develop and to restrict activities as well as temporary possession, compulsory acquisition and management of rights of access etc. See https://infrastructure.planninginspectorate.gov.uk/ for made and draft orders.
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[mattlucht]

Development Consent Order boundary is missing from the data set. Work need to switch from shapefile to multi polygon but should be part of the planning database as orders are made under Planning Act 2008 for nationally significant infrastructure projects and contain power to develop and to restrict activities as well as temporary possession, compulsory acquisition and management of rights of access etc. See https://infrastructure.planninginspectorate.gov.uk/ for made and draft orders. [email protected]

thanks @LanePlanning i'll get this added to the backlog now so that we can keep track of it. Maybe we can arrange a quick chat so that I can understand a bit more about this? ([email protected])

[colmjude]

We have been reviewing the backlog of planning considerations, which has increased to 335 items.

The review highlighted 12 we think are duplicates.

We propose to record the different names used for a planning consideration and archive these items. The items are

To archive	Duplicate of
Air quality management locations	Air quality management area (AQMA)
COMAH – major hazard sites	Control of major accident and hazard sites
Geology 625K	BGS Geology 625k
Land ownership boundary	Land registry polygons / red line boundaries
Nuclear safety zones	Nuclear zones
Protected sites (statutory sites)	Duplicate of a few, including SAC, SPA, Ramsar, Proposed Ramsar, SSSI, Marine Conservation Area, Local Nature Reserve, Local Wildlife SIte, National Parks and the Broads, AONB, Heritage Coast
Public transport access nodes	National public transport access nodes (NaPTAN)
Safeguarded aerodromes	Safeguarded military explosives site
Safety hazard areas	Health and Safety Executive Consultation (HSE) Zones
Section 73	Planning application variance
Watercourses	Duplicate of a few including Canals, Lake, Main Rivers, Reservoirs etc
Wellmaster hydrogeological database index	Borehole scans

If you disagree with our assessment please speak up and let us know why you think it is different to the planning consideration we have paired it with.

[colmjude]

We have been doing another review of the backlog of planning considerations. It was getting pretty long - we've been throwing everything and anything on there for a couple of years now and had over 350 things to look at.

We thought it would make sense to "archive" what we can to have a narrower list to focus on. We will archive things that we felt were outside the current remit of planning.data.gov.uk, things we aren't sure what they are, and things we felt were old/outdated. We will be left with a list we are more confident will provide value once the items are added to planning.data.gov.uk.

The items will only be archived, so if there is a need for them, they can easily come back.

The items we'll be archiving are:

Planning consideration
Advertisements
BGS geological indicators of flooding
BGS geological map scans
BGS Geology 10k
BGS Geology 250k
BGS Geology 25k
BGS Geology 50k
BGS Geology 625k
BGS Geology: superficial thickness
BGS groundwater flooding
BGS mineral resources
BGS permeability
Borehole scans
CASI multispectral imagery
Central government buildings
Contravention of building notices
Crossrail route
Crossrail stations
Dune slack likely locations
Environmental pollution incidents
Explosive and ordnance storage - Ordnance
Food hygiene rating
Food safety notice
GeoClimate
Geological disturbance - faults
Geological disturbance - fissure and breakline
GeoScour
GeoSure 5km hex grids
GeoSure shrink-swell 3D
GeoSure shrink-swell subsurface
Houses in multiple occupation
Hospital performance
Hydrogeological maps
Inner urban improvement area
Key business areas
LIDAR composite DSM - 2m
LIDAR composite DTM - 1m
LIDAR composite DTM - 25cm
Major railway improvement schemes
Mine entry
Mineral assessment reports
Mining and ground stability
MORECS
Multibeam bathymetry
National coach services
National landslide database
Nearby railway schemes
Nearby road schemes
Noise abatement
Notices, Orders, Directions under Planning Acts
Outstanding notices
Price paid data
Probable coal mining
Public health service delivery performance
Public transport timetables
Rainfall data
Recorded flood outlines
Regional flood and coastal committees
Renewable energy planning database (REPD)
Retail opportunity areas
Risk of flooding from rivers and seas – postcodes
Risk of flooding from rivers and seas – properties
Risk of flooding from surface water
River corridor features
Roadways, footways and footpaths
Rocky shores
Shallow coal mine workings
SOBI (Single Onshore Boreholes Index)
Soil parent material model
Soil type
Species data
TOID
Town centre boundaries
Traffic schemes
Transaction data
Transport (under TCPA route)
Traveline national dataset
UK house price data
Urban development area
Vertical aerial photography
Waterside regeneration zones
Weather forecasting
Wellmaster hydrogeological database index
Wildlife

Please let us know if there is anything we should keep.

[colmjude]

These items have now been archived.

[colmjude]

Another set of items we plan to archive are those we don't think are proper planning terms. We expect that if they are a thing we should look at they will have a different name, a name planners use.

They are:

Planning consideration
Areas for environmental enhancement
Built up areas
Landmark buildings
Landmark features
London squares
Long established & protected woodland
Millennium greens

[colmjude]

These items have now been archived.

[colmjude]

We are also planning to archive these items - they are things more in the statistical space so we are not sure they are a good fit for planning.data.gov.uk. If you disagree then let us know.

They are:

Planning consideration	Notes
Energy and renewable statistics
Hazard waste interrogator
Housing waiting list	We think this could be covered in housing target numbers as part of the housing need.
National flood and coastal erosion risk management strategy
Waste and recycling statistics

[colmjude]

These have now all been archived.

[clairemiller2]

We are aiming to reduce instances of duplicate entries in our backlog of planning considerations, while ensuring that the planning considerations we do have are clear in what they cover.

Many local planning authorities safeguard land to protect it from specific types of development, or to limit the extent of development. This is often done through the Local Plan process.

Examples of safeguarded land include:

• Sometimes it is necessary for major infrastructure schemes to safeguard land from alternate development uses (e.g. HS2)
• Mineral safeguarding areas
• Safeguarded aerodrome, technical sites and military explosives storage areas

As this term is broad and can cover a range of types of safeguarded land, we propose to remove this from the backlog, and instead have specific datasets (e.g. minerals safeguarded land). If we were to remove this overarching safeguarded land dataset, what specific forms of safeguarded land would you need on the platform?

[stevenjmesser]

Tewkesbury Borough Council have identified a need to use the Zone of Influence for Cotswold Beechwoods special area of conservation. Extra charges are levied on users in this area. More information: https://tewkesbury.gov.uk/services/planning/biodiversity-wildlife/cotswold-beechwoods-special-area-of-conservation-sac/

They would like to be able to use the area in a PlanX flow. I have not looked at whether Natural England supply this data but other special areas of conservation have zones of influence too.

[Stef-Webb]

The Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ) are developing a policy for heat network zones. Heat Networks Zones are geographical locations where heat networks have been modelled to be the lowest cost, lowest carbon solution for decarbonising heat. New developments in heat network zones will be mandated to connect to the heat network and as such could be considered a planning consideration.

The legal framework for heat network zoning is established under the Energy Act 2023, which received Royal Assent in October 2023. This Act grants the Secretary of State the authority to implement heat network zoning across England through secondary legislation, the drafting of statutory instruments to enable this is underway.