NPPF

England lacks a coherent strategy to integrate land use planning with transport strategy, says the RTPI – adding that Scotland’s agenda for cleaner air and the role planning can play is much clearer.

Environmental campaigners are using latest national planning policy to find fault and call out a proposal by tennis star Johanna Konta to build in an ancient woodland that inspired the Winnie-the-Pooh adventures.

In detailed analysis of the revised NPPF, the RTPI has said an opportunity has been missed to align the framework with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, ‘particularly as England and the rest of the UK looks for increasing international common ground’.