North Northamptonshire Annual Monitoring Report 2010-11

3 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY This is the third joint <strong>Annual</strong> <strong>Monitoring</strong> <strong>Report</strong> (AMR) prepared for the <strong>North</strong> <strong>North</strong>amptonshire Joint Planning Committee and the constituent local planning authorities of Corby, East <strong>North</strong>amptonshire, Kettering and Wellingborough. It covers the monitoring year <strong>2010</strong>/<strong>11</strong> and monitors the implementation of the <strong>North</strong> <strong>North</strong>amptonshire Core Spatial Strategy (NNCSS), adopted in June 2008. It also includes the second assessment of progress with implementation of the Wellingborough Town Centre Area Action Plan, which was adopted in the July 2009 (see Appendix A). Section 1 of the AMR is a general introduction and profile of the area. Section 2 considers progress on preparation of the Local Development Framework, which is the package of plans being prepared by the Joint Planning Committee and constituent local planning authorities. Sections 3-7 set out progress against a range of indicators for the key policy areas of the Distribution of Housing; Economy and Town Centres; Housing; Environmental Quality; and Infrastructure. Most of these indicators were derived from Output Indicators that planning authorities use to monitor local changes. The remaining indicators are drawn from the monitoring framework in the NNCSS and from the Sustainability Appraisal of the NNCSS. As for the last joint AMR (<strong>2010</strong>), a summary table of these indicators is set out below, showing whether output, sustainability and local indicators are showing a positive or negative trend. This is similar to the system that has been adopted in previous Regional AMRs and is designed to complement this approach. INDICATORS Positive - Clear improvement, or targets met Little or no change Negative - Clear deterioration, or targets not met Insufficient/no comparable data (including no targets or trends to assess against) The AMR seeks to comment on possible reasons for the performance against these indicators in <strong>2010</strong>/<strong>11</strong>. A key factor has been the continuing economic recession. Although the impacts of this will take time to feed through into some indicators, it has had a marked impact on performance against housing and economic indicators. This in turn has impacted on other indicators, for example the percentage of affordable housing built has increased largely as a result of total completions falling, and the proportion of housing built at the Growth Towns has suffered due to stalling of development on some of the larger sites, although Corby has bucked this trend in <strong>2010</strong>/<strong>11</strong>, partly due to Government ‘Kickstart’ grant funding. Strategic Planning for the Districts and Boroughs of Corby, Kettering, Wellingborough & East <strong>North</strong>amptonshire