NPPF

News in brief: Quartermain round-up for local planners; Fareham oppose NPPF housing number increase

17.04.2018

Laura Edgar

A round-up of planning news: Tuesday 17 April, 2018

Call for garden city reference to be reinstated in the NPPF

16.04.2018

Laura Edgar

England | garden city | NPPF | Policy & Politics | sustainable development

More than 50 organisations have called on the government to reinstate a reference to garden city principles in the draft National Planning Policy Framework, which is currently out for consultation.

Build-to-rent units on the increase, suggests research

16.04.2018

Laura Edgar

The number of build-to-rent homes that are either complete, under construction or in planning in the UK has increased by 30 per cent over the past year, according to the British Property Federation (BPF).

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Landscape Institute calls for green belt review

10.04.2018

Laura Edgar

Green belt policy should be addressing issues such as flood risk and air pollution, as well as biodiversity enhancement, according to the Landscape Institute.

Legal briefs: QPR facility challengers fail to score; Essex local plan challenge heads to court

06.04.2018

Roger Milne

A round-up of legal news: 31 March-6 April, 2018

RTPI blog round-up: Challenges facing planning education in the UK; Where is the ‘glue’ in the new NPPF?

06.04.2018

Laura Edgar

A round-up of RTPI blogs: 3 March-6 April, 2018

Legal landscape: Redefining the NPPF

06.04.2018

Paul Wakefield

The draft revised NPPF has quietly redefined a number of planning concepts, finds Paul Wakefield. What are the likely implications?

Appeal: Javid overrules three inspectors to block 353 homes in Waverley

04.04.2018

Matt Moody

The housing secretary has dismissed recommendations to allow three housing schemes near Farnham, Surrey, for a total of 353 homes, refusing each for conflict with the Farnham Neighbourhood Plan.

Appeal: ‘Hotchpotch’ housing scheme in active business park deemed unacceptable

03.04.2018

Matt Moody

A 117-home scheme in Leatherhead that sought ‘merely to fill in plots of land scattered across an active business park’ has been refused for ‘severe design failings’.

Appeal: 1,800 homes for Surrey aerodrome branded ‘unsustainable location’ in 2009

29.03.2018

Matt Moody

Following a number of delays, the housing secretary has announced his decision to allow 1,800 at Dunsfold Park in Surrey, ruling that the scheme would accord with the newly adopted Waverley Local Plan....

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