North Lincolnshire Council - Spatial planning

The council's research team sits within the spatial planning section in the strategic regeneration, housing and development unit (SRHD). This area of the unit plays a pivotal research and analysis role providing vital data for the production of policy and other documents of a statutory and non-statutory nature. This contributes towards helping North Lincolnshire develop and become a better place to live.

Another function for this team is to ensure that planning policies are adhered to. Monitoring is vital in order to sufficiently enforce both national and local objectives. It is essential that as a unitary local authority we put in place the mechanisms which make monitoring and importantly, re-monitoring, possible.

Monitoring entails the collection of data in order to measure the performance of North Lincolnshire Council against other local authorities in the region and/or county. And to check how the council is doing against national targets. This can be done year on year in order to identify trends.

The role the team plays also covers work and projects such as:

Publishing key statistical data for North Lincolnshire such as census information. Population estimates etc
The development of the local development framework and its connecting documents
Urban Potential Studies.

Ongoing projects:

Settlement survey
Local development framework, evidence base
Employment land review
Housing land assessment - including the Brownfield strategy
Waste development plan document sustainability appraisal scoping report
Travel to work mapping
National land use database (NLUD) annual update 2007
Open space strategy
Migration survey update
Retail survey update 2007.

Annual Monitoring Report

Local Development Frameworks are continually reviewed to ensure they remain up to date with emerging national and regional policy and local circumstances. Annual Monitoring Reports are the main mechanism for assessing the Local Development Framework's performance and its effects.