The Planning Handbook is a remarkable resource for the local construction industry that has and currently has a role in the expansion and success of our business.

The College Financial Planning Handbook (CFPH) sets out the Education and Skills Funding Agency’s (ESFA’s) financial planning requirements for further education (FE) and sixth-form (SF) college corporations. We use the term corporation to refer to sixth-form and FE corporations, established under the Further and Higher Education Act 1992, where members of the corporation form the governing body.

The Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI) has worked continuously throughout the Bill’s passage through parliament to ensure changes to the planning system reflect the changes its members want to see. However, we expect that the financial information provided to ESFA aligns fully with that used in the corporation’s own management accounts and reflects the approved budget. Requirements in this guidance apply equally to institutions designated under Section 28 of the same Act as being in the FE sector, to the extent permitted by their legal status, as well as any institutions with a funding agreement that requires that they follow this guidance. It would benefit two separate staff members at the Town Council as it is well written and gives the reader a good understanding of planning matters in an easy to read format! Corporations will record non-current asset transactions, such as large asset sales or purchases or large forecast loan capital repayments, on an event basis in the CFFR itself.

It is important corporations inform ESFA at the earliest opportunity if the deadline of 31 July 2022 may be missed. Information on the submission of the finance record for the year 2021 to 2022 will be provided in the college accounts direction for the year 2021 to 2022 which will be published by ESFA separately.If either or both of these limiting factor apply, then the autoscore financial health grade will not be higher than “requires improvement”. It means that if you have secured a plot of affordable land on the edge of a village you can get planning consent to build an affordable home without having to negotiate with the cumbersome bureaucracy of a housing association or contribute to the salaries of the professionals who staff them. Make sure your timeline and budget respond to the points you have noted in the Vision and Process fields. Following consultation with the sector and some modelling of potential scores, we have further refined these shadow measures, and the detail is set out in Annex B of this publication. A comparison of the financial health assessments using the existing and new financial health scoring method, and the reasons for any significant differences in score or grade.

By contrast, if you are working with an external digitisation partner, consider where the materials are and how your partner will gain access to digitise them.Now that your digitisation project planner is almost complete, you can assess what you need to deliver the project and determine whether you will need external funding. This includes the issue of a notice to improve where the corporation’s moderated financial health grade is ‘inadequate’. The policy enables one-off self-builders to take advantage of the rural exception site policy through a specially devised legal agreement with the local authority which ensures that the house stays affordable when it comes up for sale. The accounting officer also confirms that the supporting commentary has been prepared with due regard to the financial planning checklist (see Annex A) and the opening cash balances have been reconciled to bank statements. Special moderation procedures will apply and considerations will include (but are not limited to) the financial health of the parent body, any financial guarantees or letters of comfort provided by the parent body, the pattern of any financial support provided and the nature of the relationship and / or transactions between the bodies.

Local people should have priority, no doubt, but people who move around, are as much in need of affordable housing as people who stay put. Surficial, or continuous surface data is useful to address landscape variability as gradients (McGarigal and Cushman 2005). ESFA will continue to require a single-year finance record with the outturn for the year 2021 to 2022 for submission with the financial statements for the year 2021 to 2022 and further information on this finance record will be provided later in 2022. Corporations of concern to ESFA, including those under ongoing monitoring, may be required to submit updated versions of their CFFR as well as other relevant information requested by ESFA on an ongoing basis.Digitisation produces a range of new materials like digital assets, metadata, datasets, workflows or other project outputs.