local plans

England’s chief planner will visit three of the 15 councils threatened with intervention for not compiling a local plan in order to assess whether the government should take over the process.

Most post-2012 local plans in England are failing to cut carbon emissions and plan for the scale of weather predicted over future years.

At a #planning4people summit held by the Town and Country Planning Association, speakers Helen Hayes MP, John Howell OBE MP, and Baroness Kate Parminter stressed the importance of engaging communities in plan and place-making.