Kennington Planning Matters

For local negotiations, I would like to flag an issue to a) the KA Planning Committee and b) Lambeth PCT – are you able to consider this please?

If the developments referred to in the KA letter below are bringing more people to Kennington, it is really important that the LA take a wide perspective on who / what will be affected. In particular, if the impact on the NHS is not taken into account, existing local people like me will suffer.

I know that some LAs require developers to make a contribution to the NHS, either under S106 or as an additional condition for planning consent, while others take only their own narrow LA interests into account (housing, environmental services, social services etc). Do Lambeth LA doe this? If not, why not? [I believe London Strategic Health Authority have a tool for identifying the financial impact on the NHS of developments (HUDU) for PCT use in exactly these sort of discussions.]

Hope this can be taken into account and look forward to hearing what, if anything, you’re doing about this.

Simone

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