local plans

Chief planner calls on councils to ‘stay proactive’ on local plans

26.11.2020

Huw Morris

Local authorities must not stall on preparing their plans and should continue to be proactive while the government considers responses to the planning white paper.

Model communities: Are existing planning processes sufficient for decades long projects?

27.05.2020

Gary Duncan MRTPI

The publication of the inspector's letter following the examination in public for the North Essex Garden Communities scheme throws into the relief the need for planning processes that can deliver over...

Planning reform: Plenty to think about, but more detail required

17.03.2020

Alex Ground

Ahead of a planning white paper, communities secretary Robert Jenrick has floated a number of potential reforms to English planning in the form of a new report, Planning for the future. Alex Ground of...

Legal landscape: Could inspectors act on duty to cooperate?

16.03.2020

Wayne Beglan

Duty to Cooperate | local plans | Plan Making - Local & Neighbourhood | Planning Law | UK

Sevenoaks (pictured above), Wealden, and St Albans are just three planning authorities whose local plans have foundered because they failed in their duty to cooperate. Perhaps inspectors could exercise some...

Legal briefs: Bord admits it bungled fast-track Dublin homes approval; Essex council sees off local plan challenge

06.07.2018

Roger Milne

A round-up of legal news: 30 June-6 July, 2018

Quartermain to assess three councils over lack of local plan

26.03.2018

Laura Edgar

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.

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Report: 43% of councils yet to publish draft local plan

10.04.2017

Laura Edgar

New research has suggested that 36 per cent of planning authorities have seen a local plan through examination to adoption, but 43 per cent have not even published a draft local plan.

Report: Local plans failing to address climate change

30.11.2016

Laura Edgar

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

RTPI launches 16 ways to tackle housing crisis

04.11.2016

Laura Edgar

The RTPI has launched a campaign, 16 Ways in 16 Days, outlining it's recommendations for tackling the housing crisis in England.

Debate: Engaging communities in plan and place-making

21.01.2016

Laura Edgar

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.

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