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Greater Exeter Strategic Plan

Policy GESP41: Infrastructure Classification

In order to make robust decisions on infrastructure funding and delivery the Greater Exeter councils will employ a clear and consistent classification of infrastructure:

  1. Strategic infrastructure: Required to deliver the vision and priorities for the Greater Exeter area/ or multiple GESP site allocations. This infrastructure is identified in draft policy GESP42 and the GESP Infrastructure Delivery Plan [Infrastructure Delivery Plan to be published with the next version of the GESP]. It is part funded by monies administered by a joint board considering the Greater Exeter area
  2. GESP site infrastructure: Required to support individual GESP allocations. This infrastructure is identified in the GESP allocations policies and the GESP Infrastructure Delivery Plan [Infrastructure Delivery Plan to be published with the next version of the GESP]. It is funded by a varied package including community infrastructure levies, planning obligations, council monies and external sources
  3. Local plan infrastructure: Required to deliver the vision of local plans, support local plan allocations and community priorities. This infrastructure is identified in local plan infrastructure delivery plans. It is funded through a package identified by the local planning authority

10.14 Draft policy GESP41 reflects the approach advocated by government in the National Planning Policy Framework which explains that the planning system should identify and coordinate the provision of infrastructure and that strategic policies should make sufficient provision for infrastructure alongside development. It supports the GESP draft vision by clearly establishing a classification of infrastructure requirements in order that the GESP ‘…makes the big cross- boundary decisions about growth and infrastructure in the Greater Exeter area looking many years ahead’ whilst also identifying a framework to steer ‘…the ambitious investment decisions taken together by the local authority partners’. This approach provides certainty for the Greater Exeter councils, infrastructure providers and the development industry. It also reflects the proactive role of the Greater Exeter councils to invest in and bring forward development.

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