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Pamphlet 8
Five propositions arising from the Coniston Avenue Petition2
As a result of the findings in the first case reviewed by the founders of the Freeholders' Association1 (originally known as the Coniston Avenue Petition (CAP)2 some conclusions were reached in relation to problems with the current state of the UK Planning Statutes as applied by local authorities and in particular the City of Portsmouth.planning. These findings were set out as conclusions in our first report entitled,"Sub Prime Planning by the City of Portsmouth - A Case Study in Poor Practice", FA, August 2010. are set out below. Although these findings have not been put to the FA membership as FA policies for direct support by FA advocacy activities and still need to be accepted, modified or rejected by the FA membership in due course. However, for the sake of general transparency we have presented these below for the considerations of those reviewing this section of the General Assembly.
- Proposition 1: There needs to be a review and change in the planning statutes to prevent erosion in the economic and financial status of freeholders as a direct outcome of poor planning decisions that do not take into account of the direct and indirect economic and financial impacts of plans
- Proposition 2: There needs to be a ban on the construction of high density housing without parking provisions in areas of Low Accessibility to public transport
- Proposition 3: Planning Committees and the Head of Planning Services should be replaced by an elected Planning Commissioner who should have a non-party affiliation status.
- Proposition 4: The Planning Commissioner should be allowed to make use of independent professional assistance in ensuring that stakeholder approval is sought for any plan in a way that there is no likelihood of negative impacts upon freeholder interests.
- Proposition 5: In line with the Bank of England model's use of freeholder equity as a basis for supporting the determination of interest rate decisions by the Monetary Policy Committee, all plans should be required to be accompanied by a full key area impact analyses concerning amenity, economic & financial status and the environment on the local community and freeholder interests.
Submitted by The Freeholders' Association, 28th August, 2010
The Freeholders' Association (FA) is a national organization established to represent the interests of property owners throughout the United Kingdom. The value of urban housing stock held by Freeholders is around some £4 trillion and the value of agricultural land is some £175 billion. Therefore the Freeholders of this country hold assets equivalent to 250% of the GNP and BP's net assets are equivalent to less that one tenth of one percent of the value of the assets held by British Freeholders. The value of Freeholder residential and land resource assets is the largest single economic variable in our economy. Economic stability and growth depends upon macroeconomic policies that reflect the broad interests of Freeholders such as protecting these assets in terms of amenity, market value and service provisions. |
1 The Freeholders Association website
2 The web-based information on CAP
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