In more detail
Infrastructure means the things that go between things that enable them to work. Physical infrastructure includes things like roads, railways, water and power lines and generation, sewerage, docks, bridges and airports.
Physical infrastructure is important in local spatial planning in three main ways:
- some infrastructure projects are of national importance and are taken out of the local plan framework - things like where new nuclear power stations go, High Speed Rail Links and motorways are considered by the National Infrastructure Commission rather than the local council.
- locally important infrastructure (local main roads and rail links for example) may be the subject of policy in local planning frameworks which is agreed by the council and within with local plans - including community-led neighbourhood plans - must fit.
- developers who propose to invest in an area, but whose development relies on existing infrastructure (roads etc) can be made to contribute to local infrastructure through the Community Infrastructure Levy and through planning obligations.
Social and environmental infrastructure
Just as there is physical, or economic, infrastucture, so there are social and environmental systems which support local wellbeing. Environmental infrastructure might include things like 'green corridors' which join up local green spaces and allow greater biodoversity. Social infrastructure includes tangible things like schools and hospitals. It also includes the local community network: social connections between people and the hubs etc which generate and enable those links.
| Key Facts:
Infrastructure is the physical, environmental and social systems which go between sites, projects and individual proposals to enable them to work. Social infrastructure includes the local community network as well as more visible things like schools and hospitals. |
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Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL)
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