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General Election 2019: Vote Planning

By Roy Pinnock
  • Compulsory Purchase
  • Development
  • Fracking
  • Greenfield
  • Housebuilding
  • Housing and Planning Act
  • Neighbourhood Planning Act
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Planning and the General Election: keys to long term success

By Roy Pinnock
  • Fracking
  • Planning Permission
  • Shale Gas

January shale – new regime needs care

The House of Commons voted before the Christmas break to allow fracking in National Parks and some other sensitive areas. […]

By Roy Pinnock
  • Fracking
  • Planning Appeals
  • Planning Guidance
  • Planning Permission
  • Planning Policy
  • Shale Gas

Shale on hold?

We noted in January that planning appeals would be important for shale gas exploration this year. Cuadrilla submitted its appeals […]

By Roy Pinnock
  • Development
  • Fracking
  • Planning Permission
  • Shale Gas

Fracking planning battles on this year

Progress toward operational onshore shale sites remains slow, but 2015 promises to be an interesting year for consenting, protesting and […]

By Roy Pinnock
  • Development
  • Fracking
  • Planning Permission
  • Shale Gas

Shale gale blows on in 2015

Shale gas exploration looks set to face a defining year in the UK as changes to land access rights are […]

By Roy Pinnock
  • Fracking
  • Planning Guidance
  • Planning Policy
  • Shale Gas

Shale planning: forward guidance is not new policy

Publication of the Government’s criteria for the 14th Round of Petroleum Exploration Development Licences (PEDLs) has been carefully  choreographed to […]

By Roy Pinnock
  • Fracking
  • Shale Gas

Shale Round takes shape

The Government has published the application criteria for the 14th Onshore Petroleum Exploration Development Licence (PEDL) Round, accompanied by new […]

By Roy Pinnock
  • Fracking
  • Localism

Shale blockade will fail

We noted in our January fracking update (2014 – Year of shale for planners) that activist owners and interest groups […]

By Roy Pinnock
  • Business Rates
  • Community Interest Companies
  • Development
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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
  • Community Interest Companies
  • Development
  • Fracking
  • Planning Obligations
  • Renewable Energy

A stake in hearts and minds

Achieving local support for major projects is a challenge.  Financial commitments under Section 106 TCPA 1990 are little help in […]

By Roy Pinnock
  • Fracking

2014: year of shale for planners

Shale gas exploration will be a defining part of the planning scene in 2014.  In 2013, the Government used new […]

By Roy Pinnock

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