Viability Assessments
Keeping development viability at the core of the planning process
Viability is increasingly crucial to sound plan-making. Ensuring that consideration of viability is not left until the planning application stage is central to appropriate development. The Blyth Valley case highlighted how development economics needs to be a core consideration in planning policy. Many areas of policy are likely to come under scrutiny by Inspectors to ensure that sound plans considered viability appropriately.
Roger Tym & Partners has a track record of assessing viability as part of the evidence base for LDFs, including infrastructure delivery plans and affordable housing policies. Our expertise lies in understanding both strategic and site specific viability issues in a planning context.
We adopt a methodology that is tailored to local needs and tests the robustness of broader inter-dependent policies including sustainability, affordable housing and developer contribution requirements.
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