Transcript Welcome and Introduction

EMC Low Cost CPD
Network for Planners
“Money Makes the World Go Round”
16 October 2012
Construction & the Economy
Quarterly GDP Change
Percentage
8
6
4
2
0
Total GDP
Construction
-2
-4
-6
-8
Q4 2008 to Q2 2012
Housing Delivery in the EM
Housing Supply in the East Midlands
2000-1 to 2011-12
25,000
15,000
10,000
5,000
Total Housing Starts
Total Housing Completions
All Affordable Housing
Total Net Additions
20
11
-1
2
20
10
-1
1
20
09
-1
0
20
08
-9
20
07
-8
20
06
-7
20
05
-6
20
04
-5
20
03
-4
20
02
-3
20
01
-2
0
20
00
-1
Dwellings
20,000
Government Response
Planning Reform (help or hindrance?)
 National Infrastructure Plan
 Incentives (NHB, Business Rate Retention)
 Investment Guarantees
 ‘Get Britain Building’
 Section 106 re-negotiation
 House extensions!
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Will it be enough?
Money makes the world go round…
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How can we make stalled
development happen?
What does ‘viability’ really
mean?
If developers will not pay
for infrastructure, who will?
Are we planners or
accountants?