6 Implementation and Monitoring

6.1 Implementation

6.1.1 The Local Plan is primarily a tool for assessing planning and related applications, but it is also key corporate document which will have a wider reference in guiding the relevant activities and priorities of the Council, including its town centre management, heritage management, estates and economic development activities. It complements and is in turn complemented by a number of other strategies.

6.1.2 It also relevant to a number of other public sector bodies and agencies who use the Plan to help plan their own service provision and who it is hoped, having been consulted on and involved in the Plan’s preparation through the duty to cooperate, will support the it through their activities.

6.1.3 The Infrastructure Delivery Plan (IDP) which has been produced alongside the Local Plan reviews and evaluates the social, environmental and economic infrastructure that will be required to support the development and growth set out in the Plan. The IDP is a living document that identifies the infrastructure required to support the proposals and development sites in the Plan, the likely delivery partners e.g. developers, the borough and county councils, government agencies, and the likely funding sources. It is a living document in the sense that infrastructure requirements will change over time as new or improved infrastructure is provided or facilities are lost and technological advances or social and national policy changes require new forms of infrastructure or alternative methods of provision.

6.1.4 The infrastructure requirements to support the specific allocations in the Plan are identified within the individual site allocation policies. Where there are current known requirements for off- site infrastructure, these are identified in the IDP. Further infrastructure may be required over time or as the detail of schemes is developed; and for windfall development proposals, the infrastructure requirements and any contributions required will need to be assessed as schemes are drawn up. Infrastructure can be provided directly by infrastructure providers or developers; or planning contributions can be used to deliver or contribute to on or off-site new or improved infrastructure through Section 106 contributions and/or the Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL) should the Council introduce it.

6.1.5 The Council believes there to be no major infrastructure barriers to the delivery of the Plan as a whole or the individual sites and policies set out.

6.1.6 The Council commissioned a plan-wide viability assessment to assess the viability of the individual and cumulative policy requirements of the emerging Plan to ensure that the Plan as a whole could be delivered. Not all of these then emerging requirements were ultimately included in the adopted Plan.

6.1.7 The Council has committed to producing a separate Gypsy and Traveller Sites Allocations DPD to address the specific need for pitches for Gypsy and Traveller use.

6.2 Monitoring and Review

6.2.1 It is important to monitor Plan performance to see that policies are performing as intended towards delivering the Vision and Objectives set out.

6.2.2 A monitoring framework has been established to assess the performance of the policies in the Plan and to trigger any need for intervention or a Plan update. Some monitoring indictors are a statutory or national policy requirement e.g. monitoring housing delivery. The monitoring framework as set out in Table 8 will be used in the Council’s Annual Monitoring Reports (AMR) following the Plan’s adoption.

Table 8: Monitoring Framework