Implementation and Resources

Adopted Unitary Development Plan

(Part II) Implementation

15.1 The plan contains policies which are either:

   a.  for Guidance - these provide a guide for development control and environmental protection or
   b.  for Action - proposals to improve, develop or preserve land and buildings

15.2 No single organisation has the expertise and resources to implement the Plan. This requires the co-ordination of a range of agencies including:

• the city council
• the People of Salford
• the Private Sector
• Central Government/Government Office for the North West
• English Partnerships
• the European Community
• Trafford Park Development Corporation
• the Voluntary Sector and
• Public and Private Utilities

15.3 Much of the UDP will be implemented through the operation of development control. In this respect Section 54A of the 1990 Town and Country Planning Act, which increases the weight to be given to the Plan in the development control process, is significant.

15.4 The city council will also use the UDP as a framework for bringing forward detailed programmes of implementation, which will be set out in non-statutory strategies and plans (e.g. Land Reclamation Strategy, Housing Strategy, Transport Policies and Programme submission, development briefs for specific sites).

15.5 Supplementary Planning Guidance will be prepared consistent with the advice in PPG12 (Development Plans), to indicate how the city council intends to implement specific policies and proposals in the Plan. As well as the commitments given in the Plan, the city council may from time to time produce additional supplementary planning guidance, as appropriate.

15.6 The city council has a role in coordinating the various agencies to avoid fragmentation and to translate ideas into action. The city council will enable and promote the implementation of policies by assessing, advising and engaging in partnership with both public and private sector organisations.

15.7 The city council will itself adopt an active approach by maximising the use of its own land holdings to encourage new development and investment to protect and improve the environment.

15.8 The key agencies helping to assist the implementation of the plan may change over time. For example, Trafford Park Development Corporation, which has already been instrumental in implementing major components of the emerging plan (e.g. at Northbank), is likely to be "wound-up" before the year 2000. Conversely, English Partnerships, the Government's Urban Regeneration Agency, is now beginning to play a key role in implementing key aspects of the plan.

Resources

15.9 The plan acknowledges the limited level of resources likely to be available within the plan period and the approach adopted within it has been based on a realistic assessment of what can be achieved.

15.10 Resource availability and the costs of implementation will inevitably change over time. During the period of preparation of the plan the Urban Programme has been phased out, the Manchester, Salford and Trafford Integrated Development Operation for European funding has ceased, and much of Salford has ceased to benefit from Regional Selective Assistance. Conversely, the Salford Partnership has succeeded in a bid for funding from the Single Regeneration Budget, English Partnerships has been set up, Objective 2 resources from the European Union are available for new projects until 1996, the bids for funding from the National Lottery could if successful assist implementation of elements of the plan.

15.11 The UDP provides a basis for resource bidding, and the land use policies and proposals, it contains are reflected in the successful Single Regeneration Budget bids, as well as the Transport Policies and Programme, Housing Investment Programme and Land Reclamation Strategy submissions.

15.12 Given the uncertainties governing future implementation and resource funding, it is important that the plan provides a degree of certainty as a framework for development and land use change, but also a degree of flexibility to operate as a broad basis to take the city of Salford through into the 21st century.

Monitoring and Review

15.13 Implementation of the plan will require careful monitoring, particularly in terms of whether it is achieving the general strategic themes and objectives set out in Chapter 3 of the Plan (Planning Strategy).

15.14 In addition the City Council will need to begin to consider how to take account of new requirements in the next stage of Plan preparation for the period post - 2001. These will include Regional Planning Guidance for the North West of England, the need to undertake an Environmental Appraisal of the Development Plan, the emerging Local Agenda 21 for Salford and its implications for land use planning, and implementation of the Manchester City Pride initiative which incorporates much of the city. Additionally, new or revised national planning policy guidance will need to be considered in the monitoring and review process.

15.15 The city council is committed to ensuring that the plan remains relevant to the city of Salford's requirements through the application of an effective monitoring and review process. This will lead in due course to the preparation of a successor UDP which will take the city beyond 2001, the target date for time-expired policies in the Plan (e.g. housing land allocations), to 2011

This page was last updated on 10 March 2011