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Section 106 – baffling changes will confuse

The Government has made further changes to the approach to planning obligations in the Planning Practice Guidance on Section 106 […]

By Roy Pinnock
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Wind farm community benefits ‘are not a material consideration’, guidance says …

DECC have just published “Guidance of Community Benefits from Onshore Wind Developments“.  The paper provides some great examples of the […]

By Roy Pinnock
  • Development
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What a belter

The Green Belt is back in the news. DCLG has updated the NPPG, and included responses to two further questions […]

By Roy Pinnock
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DCO regime faces a real test

Better known as the super-sewer, the Thames Tideway Tunnel (“TTT”) Development Consent Order, granted on 12 September 2014, was a […]

By Katie Scuoler
  • Development
  • Housebuilding
  • Planning Appeals
  • Planning Guidance

First road test for special measures

Less than a year after the introduction of the government’s ‘special measures’ regime for poorly performing local planning authorities, the […]

By Michele Vas
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Solar permitted development rights

The Government published its technical consultation on Planning in July 2014, the consultation included proposals to increase permitted development rights […]

By Melanie Blanchard
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Viability still under the spotlight

The Growth and Infrastructure Act 2013 amended the Section 106 regime to allow developers to challenge affordable housing obligations on […]

By Roy Pinnock
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  • 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
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Demolition job

The Government has published a new Demolition Direction, which confirms that permission is only required for demolition of buildings larger […]

By Roy Pinnock
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Viability and numbers go together

Two recent articles (by Roy Pinnock) discuss the Growth and Infrastructure Act 2013 (G&IA) amendments to section 106 of the […]

By Melanie Blanchard
  • Development
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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
  • Business Rates
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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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