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Last year the Welsh Government began an important review of national planning policy and guidance for economic development to ensure that it supports the delivery of sustainable economic renewal.  This commitment responds to the publication of the Study to Examine the Planning Application Process in Wales (June 2010\) and Economic Renewal: a new direction (July 2010\).


 


To inform this review, a research report on ‘Planning for Sustainable Economic Renewal’ was commissioned to evaluate the effectiveness of existing planning policy for economic development, and to scope future planning policy and guidance requirements.  Roger Tym \& Partners in association with Asbri Planning were appointed to deliver the research project.


 


Today I am pleased to announce the publication of this important research report, which can be accessed on the Welsh Government’s website.


 


A research steering group made up of representatives from the business sector, environment sector, planning profession and local authorities, have overseen the project and endorsed its findings and recommendations.


 


The research was informed by a comprehensive evidence base including a detailed review of national policy, case studies from local authorities; lessons learnt from other UK administrations; and discussions with various stakeholders during workshop sessions held across Wales earlier this year.


 


A number of recommendations are made:


* the need to refresh economic development national planning policy supported by a new technical advice note;
* the provision of a central economic information resource to inform the evidence base for Local Development Plans (LDPs) and development management decisions;
* closer working between planning and economic development functions at the local level, with economic development teams playing a greater role in LDP preparation and providing advice on planning applications for economic uses;
* the need for businesses to do more to identify and promote the economic value of development through both LDP and development management processes;
* the requirement for a new strategic planning arrangement at above local planning authority level, more closely aligned to economic areas such as city regions.


The research also includes an ancillary recommendation that further consideration should be given to the impact of regulation and policy on the financial viability of development.


 


The recommendations of the research report have been considered and are accepted in full by the Welsh Government.  In taking forward the recommendations, I will be consulting on revised economic development planning policies and a framework economic development Technical Advice Note later this year. 


 


Together with the Minister for Business, Enterprise, Technology and Science, I wish to discuss with the Welsh Local Government Association how we can promote closer working between local authority planning and economic development teams. I will also be discussing with the Minister for Business, Enterprise, Technology and Science and other Cabinet colleagues about how we take forward the work to understand the impact of regulation and policy on development viability, the work to develop a central economic information resource to support the new technical guidance, as well as how we undertake planning at above local authority level. I will consider the latter within the context of the Simpson Review, commissioned by the Local Government and Communities Minister.


 


The research report clearly shows that there is more that all participants in the planning system can do to improve planning for economic development.  In implementing the recommendations, planning will do more to support economic growth and jobs by making Wales a better place to do business.







Translation:


 
Y llynedd, dechreuodd Llywodraeth Cymru gynnal adolygiad pwysig o bolisïau a chanllawiau cynllunio cenedlaethol ar gyfer datblygu economaidd er mwyn sicrhau ei bod yn adnewyddu’r economi mewn modd cynaliadwy. Mae’r ymrwymiad hwn yn ymateb i gyhoeddi Astudiaeth i Archwilio’r Broses Ceisiadau Cynllunio yng Nghymru (Mehefin 2010\) ac Adnewyddu’r Economi: cyfeiriad newydd (Gorffennaf 2010\). 


 


Fel sail i’r adolygiad hwn, comisiynwyd adroddiad ymchwil, sef ‘Cynllunio ar gyfer Adnewyddu Economaidd Cynaliadwy’, er mwyn gwerthuso effeithlonrwydd y polisi cynllunio presennol ar ddatblygu economaidd, ac asesu gofynion polisïau a chanllawiau cynllunio yn y dyfodol. Roger Tym \& Partners ac Asbri Planning a gafodd eu penodi i gynnal y prosiect ymchwil.


 


Heddiw, mae’n dda gennyf ddweud, fe gyhoeddwyd yr adroddiad ymchwil pwysig hwn, sydd ar gael i’w ddarllen ar wefan Llywodraeth Cymru. 


 


Bu grŵp llywio ymchwil o gynrychiolwyr o’r sector busnes, sector yr amgylchedd, y maes cynllunio ac awdurdodau lleol, yn goruchwylio’r prosiect ac maen nhw wedi cymeradwyo ei gasgliadau a’i argymhellion.


 


I wneud yr ymchwil, defnyddiwyd cronfa dystiolaeth gynhwysfawr sy’n cynnwys adolygiad manwl o bolisïau cenedlaethol, astudiaethau achos oddi wrth awdurdodau lleol; gwersi a ddysgwyd o brofiad llywodraethau eraill y Deyrnas Unedig; a thrafodaethau â nifer o randdeiliaid mewn gweithdai a gynhaliwyd ledled Cymru yn gynharach eleni.


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Gwneir nifer o argymhellion:


* dylid adfywio’r polisi cynllunio cenedlaethol ar ddatblygu economaidd, gan gyhoeddi nodyn cyngor technegol newydd;
* dylid creu adnodd canolog o wybodaeth economaidd i fwydo’r gronfa dystiolaeth sy’n sail i Gynlluniau Datblygu Lleol a phenderfyniadau sy’n ymwneud â rheoli materion datblygu;
* dylid meithrin cysylltiadau agosach rhwng swyddogaethau cynllunio a datblygu economaidd ar lefel leol, gyda’r timau datblygu economaidd yn chwarae mwy o ran yn y gwaith o baratoi Cynlluniau Datblygu Lleol a chynghori ar geisiadau cynllunio sydd at ddibenion economaidd;
* dylai busnesau wneud mwy i nodi a hyrwyddo gwerth economaidd datblygiadau trwy brosesau Cynlluniau Datblygu Lleol a rheoli datblygu;
* dylid sefydlu trefniadau newydd i ymdrin â chynllunio strategol ar lefel uwch na lefel awdurdod cynllunio lleol. Dylent gyd\-fynd yn agosach ag ardaloedd economaidd fel ardaloedd mewn dinasoedd.


Mae’r ymchwil hefyd yn cynnwys argymhelliad atodol y dylid rhoi ystyriaeth bellach i’r modd y mae rheoliadau a pholisïau yn effeithio ar hyfywedd ariannol datblygiadau.\<?xml:namespace prefix \= o /\>


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Mae argymhellion yr adroddiad ymchwil  wedi’u hystyried a’u derbyn yn llawn gan Lywodraeth Cymru. Wrth fwrw ymlaen â’r argymhellion, byddaf yn ymgynghori ar bolisïau cynllunio diwygiedig ar gyfer adnewyddu economaidd ynghyd â fframwaith Nodyn Cyngor Technegol ar ddatblygu economaidd yn nes ymlaen eleni.\<?xml:namespace prefix \= o /\>


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Ar y cyd â’r Gweinidog Busnes, Menter, Technoleg a Gwyddoniaeth, byddaf yn trafod â Chymdeithas Llywodraeth Leol Cymru sut y gellir sicrhau bod timau cynllunio a thimau datblygu economaidd awdurdodau lleol yn cydweithio’n agosach. Byddaf hefyd yn cynnal trafodaethau â’r Gweinidog Busnes, Menter, Technoleg a Gwyddoniaeth a chyd\-aelodau eraill o’r Cabinet i weld sut y gallwn fynd ati i ddeall effaith rheoliadau a pholisïau ar hyfywedd datblygu, a hefyd fwrw ymlaen â’r gwaith o ddatblygu adnodd gwybodaeth economaidd canolog  i gefnogi’r canllawiau technegol newydd. Yn ogystal â hynny, byddwn yn edrych ar ddulliau o ymwneud â chynllunio ar lefel uwch na lefel awdurdod lleol. Byddaf yn ystyried yr ail o fewn cyd\-destun Adolygiad Simpson, a gomisiynwyd gan y Gweinidog Llywodraeth Leol a Chymunedau.   \<?xml:namespace prefix \= o /\>


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Mae’r adroddiad ymchwil yn dangos yn glir bod modd i bawb sy’n rhan o’r system gynllunio wneud mwy i wella cynllunio ar gyfer adnewyddu economaidd. Trwy weithredu’r argymhellion, bydd y maes cynllunio’n gallu gwneud mwy i hyrwyddo twf economaidd a chreu swyddi, a hynny trwy wneud Cymru’n lle gwell i gynnal busnes.\<?xml:namespace prefix \= o /\>