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Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary...
5th April 2012, by Huw Williams
The appointment of Mary Portas 'The Queen of Shops' in the Summer of 2011 to conduct an independent review into the state of our high streets and town centres was a surprise to many in the property and development community.
Now that we have had time to digest the...
Categories: Planning
National Planning Policy Framework Finally Published
28th March 2012, by Huw Williams
Yesterday's publication and immediate implementation of the long-awaited National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) has to be welcomed. It sweeps away the byzantine edifice or prevailing planning guidance in favour of just 49 pages of 'broad brush' guidance to local planning...
Categories: Planning
National Planning Policy Framework to be Published
23rd March 2012, by Huw Williams
Despite assurances made only last week that the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) would be issued alongside the Budget, it did not in fact appear and, we will now have to wait until Tuesday to see it.
The comments made by George Osborne in his speech in...
Categories: Planning
Planning Enforcement Orders
15th March 2012, by Tom Graham
Under the Localism Act new provisions for the enforcement of breaches of planning control will come into effect in England & Wales from 6 April 2012. These give Local Planning Authorities (LPA's) powers to decline to determine retrospective planning applications...
Categories: Planning
Pressure on Government to Strengten Protection of Town Centres
13th October 2011, by CPAdmin
Alongside the high profile battle currently being fought out in the media between the government and environmental, conservation and local interest groups on the National Planning Policy Framework and its apparent relaxation of planning rules on development, it now appears that...
Categories: Planning
