Professor Neil Crosby, Lead Author of RICS Assessing Viability in Planning under the NPPF 2019 (S3 E10)

Have We Got Planning News For You Special Episode on Viability with the irrepressible Neil Crosby, MRICS, Professor of Real Estate at the University of Reading.

The Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors has just published the first edition of “Assessing Viability in Planning under the NPPF 2019”, which is crucial reading for plan making and especially residential planning applications.

Government is determined to see viability for housing sites addressed at the local plan stage, in order to determine affordable housing provision at the point of allocation.

We are on Easter break. But we took time to record an hour-long interview as a special episode with Professor Neil Crosby, the lead author

The guidance in lengthy and intense. So the interview is an introduction to the document providing an overview of its aims, objectives and structure. And, we also get on to the vexed and controversial issue of land value, especially Existing Use Value Plus (EUV+)