Equality Impact Assessment: Planning
Page updated 08/02/2012
Areas of work:
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Local Plans and
Conservation
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- Preparing and reviewing the statutory Local
Development Framework
- Undertaking the City Council’s Urban Capacity Study to assess
the potential of brownfield sites to accommodate housing
- Countryside matters including Tree Preservation Orders, High
Hedges and Hedgerow Removal Notices
- Fulfilling and maintaining the District’s built heritage,
including advice on listed buildings and conservation areas and
administering the Historic Buildings and Conservation Schemes
- Preparing annual monitoring reports of planning policy
implementation incorporating residential and aid employment
development rates
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Development Control
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- Determining applications for planning
permission, listed building consent, conservation area consent and
consent for display advertisements
- Responding to consultations on such matters from Cumbria County
Council, neighbouring local authorities and from Government and
Statutory Agencies
- Responding to enquiries from the public and other City Council
services
- Negotiating with developers about prospective development
proposals to ensure a high quality design and a net benefit to the
district
- Preparing evidence to support the City Council’s case in
respect of appeals relating to refusals of permission or
enforcement actions
- Providing witnesses to present evidence at public inquiries and
actions through the council
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Linked documents and information:
http://www.carlisle.gov.uk/environment_and_planning/planning.aspx
1. Local
Development Framework
http://www.carlisle.gov.uk/environment_and_planning/planning/local_development_scheme.aspx
1.1. Local Development Scheme (LDS),
1.2. Core Strategy,
1.3. Action Area
Plans
1.4. Supplementary
Planning Documents (SPDs) (collectively referred to as Local
Development Documents)
1.5. Statement of
Community Involvement (SCI)
1.6. Annual Monitoring
Report
2. Planning
Enforcement
http://www.carlisle.gov.uk/environment_and_planning/planning/planning_enforcement.aspx
3. Right to Speak
Policy
Key decisions
KD.019/09 Carlisle City Centre
Conservation Area
KD.023/09 Designing Out Crime
Supplementary Planning Document
KD.024/09 Trees and Development
Supplementary Planning Document
KD.025/09 Local Development Framework -
Statement of Community Involvement
KD 027/09 Affordable Warmth and Fuel
Poverty
ED 14/11 Achieving Well
Designed Housing SPD
ED 10/11 Energy Efficiency
SPD
Evidence
- Customer feedback / compliments / complaints
- Development Control Satisfaction Survey
- Other user satisfaction reports (Eg Govmetric)
- Previous consultation / community involvement
- Census, national or regional statistics
- Take up and usage data
Screening for impacts
Does the policy/service
impact on the following?
Community Infrastructure
Levy (CIL)
Section 106 Agreements
AONB Sustainable Development Fund
Potential to use funds to support specific
projects
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Equality Impact Screening
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Impact Yes/No?
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Positive impact?
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Negative impact?
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Key decision
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| Council Policy & Budget Framework |
Yes |
LDF is a significant element of the Policy
Framework & Sustainable Community Plan |
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| Council Priority - Economy (Generic) |
Yes |
Planning shapes environment and tailors development to
specific areas |
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| Council Priority - Local Environment (Generic) |
Yes |
Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL)
Section 106 Agreements
AONB Sustainable Development Fund
Potential to use funds to support specific
projects
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Ethnicity
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No Evidence
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Education officer / Solway Coast
AONB:
Asian children visit from Carlisle as part of a visiting
programme
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Disability
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No Evidence
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Potential links to SPD being developed by
Housing Service (Roger Higgins)
The Achieving Well Designed Housing SPD makes
reference to the need to design for ease of access for persons of
restricted mobility at the earliest possible stage of the design
process.
Future potential to support construction of
dwellings suited to lifetime needs of occupant. (Core Strategy
policy)
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| Gender |
No Evidence
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| Sexual orientation |
No Evidence
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Age
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Yes
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Youth involvement in Special Planning
documents
School talks
Planning Monitoring Officer: provides
for the monitoring requirements of service – against govt targets –
brownfield etc ensures equality compliance
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Religion or belief
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Yes
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There is scope in our plans and policies for
the development of new places of worship
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Rurality
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Yes
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Protection of rural services
Live work units
Acknowledge Parish / Community Plans
Role in linking plans
Planning design statements are supported &
adopted when appropriate eg Dalston; Farlam; Burgh by Sands
Solway Coast – Environment Fund
The North Pennines AONB (to which the Planning
Service of the Council makes a contribution) has a Sustainable
Development Fund available for small social, economic and
environmental projects submitted by community groups, parish
councils and charities.
Supported successful campaigns to retain
services
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| Health |
Yes |
AONBs provide health & wellbeing – well
managed environment
Lifetime planning for dwellings
106 contributions toward cycle paths;
facilities etc
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| Financial Inclusion |
Yes |
Potential links to affordable development; low cost housing
etc |
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Human rights
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No
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| Other (Generic) |
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Community Involvements Special Planning
Documents (such as Caldewgate)
http://www.carlisle.gov.uk/pdf/Amended_Caldewgate%20CONSULTATION%20complete(smaller).pdf
Malicious objections based ‘perception’ of
users
Anonymous objections and fear of reprisal.
Especially enforcement.
Rights to speak policy
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Malicious objections based ‘perception’ of users
The current policy only permits a right to
object to a planning application. Consider reviewing policy
to include the ability to speak in support.
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If you consider there is either no impact or no negative
impact, please give reasons: