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Limits to growth: pre-commencement conditions

Housebuilders are up in arms about the use of conditions requiring approvals before work can start holding back delivery of […]

By Roy Pinnock
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Shale gale keeps blowing

David Cameron has confirmed that the Government is ‘going all out for shale’, on a site visit in the Gainsborough […]

By Roy Pinnock
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Repeal of the week

We should repeal all validation requirements other than those relating to a completed standard application form (no local bespoke forms […]

By Roy Pinnock
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  • Localism
  • Planning Guidance

Localist approach?

Is there an increasingly localist approach to planning in the National Planning Practice Guidance?  The new Guidance (which as emphasised […]

By Lucy McDonnell
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Turn up the volume, three suggestions …

The first two parts of this post identified the clear need for new housing and the important role that the […]

By Roy Pinnock
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Turn up the volume, part 2

Meeting housing needs is now recognised as a national challenge (see Turn Up the Volume, Part 1).  Love or hate […]

By Roy Pinnock
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Useful nuggets

The National Planning Policy Guidance has some useful nuggets.  There has always been a question about how planning obligations should […]

By Roy Pinnock
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New planning ‘guidance’

Always remember that this is not new ‘policy’. It is only guidance. It changes nothing. For applications and appeals the […]

By Roy Pinnock

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