Review of planning process – what are your top 5 issues?

Forum members are reminded they have the chance to influence the outcome of the on-going planning review the BPF is involved with.

The Forum will be feeding views into the planning review being conducted by Bradford Council. Members can be a simple but effective contribution by telling us what are the top five issues affecting your company that need changing.

We only need a short statement or couple of sentences on each issue/change that could be made and these can be provided electronically to Mike Cartwright here

Thanks to those members already commenting on this. Please provide any comments by Wednesday 7 November.

Problems identified by a Forum group looking into this include:

1. Getting councillors engaged in the issues and informed at an early stage
2. Establishing clear protocols for dealing with applications, avoiding ambiguity at any stage
3. Shortage of resources and addressing the matter
4. Dealing with Section 106 (and 278) agreements and the information needed to understand better
5. The importance of training councillors as well as officers
6. The basic understanding of development appraisals, and the need for subsequent 106 agreements to be made on this basis
7. Some developers need to improve the quality of their submissions.