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Section 14 Implementation, Monitoring and Review
POLICY IMP3: Review of the RSS
The East of England Regional Assembly should carry out an immediate single issue review on the future of Lakeside
Basin consistent with Policy ETG2, for completion by the end of 2009. It should also proceed with its proposals for
a review of the RSS to investigate and make provision for the development needs of the region for the 2011 to 2031
period. The review should be started in 2008 and be completed by 2011.
14.15 This RSS will do much to put in place a robust sustainable approach to developing the region. But there are a number of
gaps in it, including in regard to the future of Lakeside Basin and the Lakeside regional shopping centre, see Policy ETG2.
EERA’s decision to commence a review in 2008 relating to the 2011-2031 period following the single issue review on site
provision for Gypsies and Travellers is welcomed. Completion in 2011 is in accordance with the timetable for such reviews
in the Housing Green Paper and will mean the RSS would look forward a full 20 years, a considerable advance on the 13
years for this RSS from its completion in 2008.
14.16 Many of the policies of this RSS should be robust and should not need to be fundamentally reviewed. The primary focus
of the review will be to roll the plan forward to provide for the 2021-31 period and further increase the house building
trajectory, providing an appropriate contribution to the Housing Green Paper target of 240,000 dwellings a year by 2016,
testing a range of housing provision based on guidance from the Secretary of State. As well as the organic growth of
existing settlements, it should consider spatial development options, including major urban extensions and major and
small new settlements with the capacity for continuing development to and beyond 2031. In regard to regionally
significant development it should make proposals for its role in relation to spatial, economic, social and environmental
criteria, location, and implementation mechanisms.
14.17 The green belt reviews, Policy SS7, in looking at the potential to meet needs to 2031 and beyond will inform the RSS
review. Depending on preparation timetables and planning horizons, core strategy development plan documents also
have a role in informing the RSS roll forward because of their consideration of long term spatial vision and local
development options. This applies particularly, but not exclusively, at the key centres for development and change, see
Paragraph 3.15.
14.18 Factors be taken into account in the review include:
• PPS3 and aspects of the ‘post Barker’ policy approach including housing market assessment, housing market based
sub-regions and the implications of the proposals for affordability, drawing on modelling by the National Housing and
Planning Advisory Unit;
• the implications of the latest national household projections;
• explicit consideration of the housing needs of an ageing population and of rural areas;
• the implications of the Sub-National Review of Economic Development and Regeneration that RSS will be replaced
by an Integrated Regional Strategy, which brings together elements of the RSS and the Regional Economic Strategy,
with the Regional Development Agency becoming the regional planning body;
• a fuller and more outward looking appreciation of the East of England’s relationship with neighbouring regions,
particularly London and the South East;
• a closer relationship with the Environment Agency and the water industry over water resource issues and the options
(and their implications) for water supply and waste water management, taking account of water cycle studies;