RSS Monitoring

*Latest News* - 2007 Annual Monitoring Report Available for download

• Executive Report
• Full Report

Plus - New Supplementary Reports will be available on this website in mid March.

• Green Belt - 2007 data
• Housing - 2006 data
• Employment Land 2006 data

The Assembly, as the Regional Planning Body, has a responsibility to monitor the implementation and effectiveness of the Regional Spatial Strategy for the West Midlands.

Monitoring is a key part of the Government's new planning system in order to address questions like:

• are policies achieving their objectives?
• have policies had unintended consequences?
• are the assumptions and objectives behind the policies still relevant?
• are the targets being achieved?

Monitoring will help to underpin the assessment of current and development of future planning policies at local, sub-regional and regional levels.

The Assembly is required to produce an Annual Monitoring Report (AMR) by the end of February each year for the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister (ODPM). Data acquisition begins in late spring of each year and relates to the previous period 1st April to 31st March.

• 2005 Local Development Framework (LDF) - Annual Monitoring Reports (AMRs) from authorities around the Region

Also Available:

• Contextual Monitoring Report for Urban and Rural Renaissance
• Data Annexe
• Summary of Contextual Monitoring Report

2006 Annual Monitoring Report (AMR) - published Feb 2007
The West Midlands Annual Monitoring Report 2006

2005 Annual Monitoring Report (AMR) - published Feb 2006
The West Midlands Annual Monitoring Report 2005 is now available. Click on the links below to view the document.

1. Introduction
2. Headline Indicators
3. Communities for the Future
4. Prosperity for All
5. Quality of the Environment
6. Transport and Accessibility
7. Annex 1 and 2
8. Data Tables and other Annexes

2004 Annual Monitoring Report (AMR) - published Feb 2005
The West Midlands Annual Monitoring Report 2004

AMR Supplementary Reports
In the West Midlands we have a long tradition of effective monitoring of formerly RPG and now RSS. To supplement the statutory requirement for an Annual Monitoring Report, WMRA has now produced four themed reports to maximise the benefit of the 2004 monitoring data:

• 2005 Regional Employment Land Study - published 2006
• 2005 Regional Housing Market Summary - published 2006
• Plan, Monitor, Manage - Provision of Housing 2004
• Plan, Monitor, Manage - Data Annex
• Regional Employment Land Survey
• Green Belt
• Waste Planning in the West Midlands

Other Useful Documents

• ODPM Core Output Indicators for Regional Planning
• ODPM Local Development Framework Core Output Indicators

For further information about Monitoring please contact Paul Bayliss, West Midlands Regional Spatial Strategy Team on 0121 678 1027.