Only key parts of IDP will be reviewed
KEY areas of the Island Development Plan will be reviewed individually, rather than through a broader five-year review process, in order to make it easier for the public to understand.
The IDP was approved by the States in 2016 and it was agreed that a review of housing land supply and employment land supply would take place five years later.
But when Covid hit, the decision was made for the Development & Planning Authority to postpone the review in anticipation of the island’s Covid recovery strategy.
DPA president Victoria Oliver told yesterday's Scrutiny Management public hearing that most of the actions outlined in the policy letter had been completed or were being looked at.
‘We have picked out various policies that we think needed addressing that the review would have picked out on,’ she said.
Items being looked into included the development framework threshold process and the debate between building on green and brownfield sites.
‘With the full Island Development Plan, once a policy has been reviewed if it is not actually interlinked with another one we will bring it forward. We will do it in easy steps rather than one big parcel, it’s the one big parcel that makes it a lot more difficult to properly understand, if you do it individually it will be easier,’ said Deputy Oliver.
‘There may be some changes that come forward prior to the 10-year review, but not within the next year. We’re doing a five-year review roundabouts.’
The housing indicator was also being reviewed as the time for the review approached, and there was a statutory requirement for a review of housing land supply, which was described as a ‘wish list’ by Environment & Infrastructure director Claire Barrett.
‘The five-year review is being subsumed by the IDP review. The authority has just decided to do a focused review and aims to do that this political term, and we will be focusing on areas I dare say we would have been focused on before,’ she said.
