Out-Law News 2 min. read
23 Oct 2012, 3:24 pm
It will seek permission to consult on a 'growth options' document for its Development Plan, which seeks to build on green belt land, and its community infrastructure levy (CIL) preliminary draft charging schedule (PDCS).
The Birmingham Development Plan Options document (48-page / 3.12MB PDF) proposes that green belt land is released for the development of between 5,000 to 10,000 houses. The proposed land to be released covers the majority of the green belt area within Birmingham to the north and east of Sutton Coldfield.
The projected increase in Birmingham's population, set out in a Strategic Housing Market Assessment, will require the building of around 80,000 new homes in the period between 2011 and 2031. The assessment estimates that capacity within the urban area is around 43,000 homes, creating a shortfall of over 30,000 homes.
"Having explored the capacity within the urban area it is clear that it will be impossible to provide sufficient new housing to meet the City's growing population with a shortfall in the region of 30,000 dwellings," the plan said. "This means that we must also consider the potential for development on the edge of the City - which means on land currently in the Green Belt."
If the cabinet resolves to approve the options document for consultations, it is intended that an eight week consultation will be launched in November. Consultation responses will then be considered and a full pre-submission version of the Birmingham Development Plan will be produced by early summer 2013.
The Council's report (22-page / 194KB PDF) to its cabinet emphasises that the purpose of the consultation will be to "seek views on the merits of different potential development options" and that "there is no intention that all of these options should be developed."
The CIL PDCS (1-page / 38KB PDF) sets out proposed maximum CIL tariffs for retail, residential, hotel and leisure developments. The proposed charge for supermarket retail above 5,000 square metres is £380 per sq m and £150 per sq m for supermarket retail below 5,000 sq m.
Residential developments in 'Value Zones' one, two and three and student housing will be subject to a proposed charge of £115 per sq m and residential developments in 'Value Zones' four, five, six and seven and city centre core offices are proposed a charge of £55 per sq m.
The proposed charges for city centre hotels development is £45 per sq m; £35 per sq m for leisure development; £25 per sq m for city centre fringe office and out of city centre hotel development and £15 per sq m for all other office development. Industrial, educational and health development will be subject to a proposed zero-rate charge.
If the cabinet approves the PDCS for consultation, an eight week consultation will be launched in November. The CIL charges are projected to be adopted in April 2014.
