| PARSOL Deliverables - Co-ordination of Monitoring to Inform Policy
Land use monitoring takes place at varying levels of government, from District/Unitary Authorities to County, Regional and National bodies. All levels are involved in monitoring housing and employment development to report on the different aspects of planning policy, local plans (soon to be replaced by Local Development Frameworks), Structure Plans, Regional Planning Guidance (to be replaced by Regional Spatial Strategies) and Planning Policy Guidance (to be replaced by Planning Policy Statements). Much of the housing and employment land use monitoring uses similar data, for instance the number of dwellings completed and amount of development on brownfield land.
The original PARSOL monitoring project consisted of a pilot scheme to illustrate the co-ordination of the collection of the data needed at all levels. It demonstrated how data could an be transferred electronically between the various bodies involved in monitoring according to a standard data specification/XML schema.
ODPM has funded a review of the PARSOL Monitoring Specification/Schema to enable national rollout. This review will consider:
- Maximising the potential benefit for collecting monitoring data through the implementation of the Standard Planning Application Form (1 APP);
- Ensuring the specification includes the information required to be collected for Regional Strategy Statement and Local Development Framework Annual Monitoring Report Core Output Indicators;
- The data requirements of the existing regional monitoring schemes.
Full details of this project are specified in the Project Initiation Document (PID).
Project Initiation Document 462Kb pdf
The review is expected to be completed by the end of 2005, subject to progress on defining the Standard Planning Application Form. Please see the latest project bulletin below.
Project
Bulletin No. 5 235Kb pdf
PARSOL Monitoring response to ODPM's Standard Planning
Application Form consultation.
1APP
Consultation Response 550Kb pdf
Findings of Interviews with Regional Planning Bodies
and Local Authority Workshops.
Assessment
of Consultation 408kb pdf
In addition to the products listed below PARSOL has provided a monitoring toolkit SP12 .www.parsol.gov.uk/2_2.html
This toolkit provides useful information but will need to be updated following the completion of the review of the Monitoring specification/XML schema. |
