The Planning Life Insights of Bryan - part 2

 “The Planning Life Insights of Bryan” is a BCLP podcast looking into the practical things you need to know to navigate the UK planning system. 

Planning gain has always required a balance between funding related social infrastructure and preserving the viability of new schemes. Where does that balance fall in the brave new world of pandemic economics? 

A consensus is growing that there may be no V-shaped recovery. Developers with a 3 month programme of hunkering down into conserve cash mode are having to plan for the longer haul. What are the options around taking forward hard-won permissions before they expire? Or in re-engineering schemes in sectors where the Coronavirus has catalysed changes that would otherwise have taken years, how do you achieve  flexibility in financial planning liabilities. 

Joined by Alex Vaughan Jones, Partner at Gerald Eve and viability specialist, our second episode explores scope for developers looking to implement planning permissions in a volatile Covid-19 market to defer or reduce liabilities: 

• Automatic extensions to planning permissions – what’s happening? - 04.15 mins
• Revisiting viability during and after a planning application - 08.02 mins
• • Early and stop/start viability reviews for affordable housing - 09.40 mins 
  • Banking minimum implementation without triggering planning contributions - 18.22 mins
  • Varying section 106 agreements, the options - 21.35 mins
  • When to revisit viability - 28.28 mins
• The Community infrastructure levy (CIL) - 31.14 mins
  • Updated Government Guidance on easing late payment penalties for CIL - 34.22 mins 
  • Influencing CIL by engaging in charging schedule examinations -  40.23 mins
  • Baking CIL into your consenting strategy when re-engineering schemes - 42.51 mins

  All of this whilst counting ourselves blessed we have more parents at home during the podcast than kids who need homeschooling…

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  This podcast was contributed to by Alexander Vaughan-Jones, Partner at Gerald Eve and  BCLP Trainee Solicitor Jemma Green.