Planning Obligations
Planning obligations (or Section 106 agreements) are private agreements negotiated, usually in the context of planning applications, between local planning authorities and persons with an interest in a piece of land (or "developers"), and are intended to make acceptable development which would otherwise be unacceptable in planning terms. For example, planning obligations might be used to prescribe the nature of a development (e.g. by requiring that a given proportion of housing is affordable); to secure a contribution from a developer to compensate for loss or damage created by a development (e.g. loss of open space); or to mitigate a development's impact (e.g. through increase public transport provision or increased education provision). The outcome of all three of these uses of planning obligations should be that the proposed development concerned is made to accord with published local, regional or national planning policies.
NHS Suffolk has worked with Suffolk’s Local Authorities, NHS Great Yarmouth and Waveney and Suffolk Constabulary and the result of that work is a Developers' Guide to Infrastructure Contributions, produced by Suffolk County Council. The Guide explains the type and scale of contributions that developers might be expected to make through Section 106 payments, to ensure a consistent approach across Suffolk.
Developers Guide Link PDF
Topic papers were produced to relate to chapter four of the Section 106 Developers Guide to Infrastructure Contributions in Suffolk and provide further information to infrastructure requirements that may be necessary to make a development proposal acceptable in planning terms. The health topic paper is provided below; all the others are provided on the Suffolk County Council Planning Obligations Page, as well as the relevant local planning authorities.
Health Infrastructure Provision
The Code of Practice Protocol sets our how the authorities and service providers (including NHS Suffolk) will work together in assessing infrastructure contributions and what a developer can expect from the authorities.
Code of Practice Protocol