The shape of things to come – Planning and Compensation Bill
The proposed new planning and compulsory purchase legislation will be a rather skeletal job even when enacted. Much will be left to subsequent regulations. Still, we have to start somewhere – if only with a few key expressions to identify the main parts of the Bill.
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Regional spatial strategies: To replace, with development plan status, existing planning guidance, and eventually to be kept under review by regional planning bodies.
Local development schemes: To replace structure, local and unitary development plans.
Development: A new definition and a more active role for those with plan-making functions.
Development control: Councils are to have increased ability to decline to determine planning applications and to make their determinations in the light of their local development orders and statements of development principles.
Slip rule: To allow for the correction of certain types of error in decision letters – presumably aimed at certain “essay-marking” appellants.
More detailed comment from Martin Edwards can be found in
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The shape of things to come – Planning and Compensation Bill
The proposed new planning and compulsory purchase legislation will be a rather skeletal job even when enacted. Much will be left to subsequent regulations. Still, we have to start somewhere – if only with a few key expressions to identify the main parts of the Bill.
Based upon Get to grips with the Bill, contributed by Martin Edwards and John Martin in Estates Gazette 11 January 2003, p101, the suggested memory markers are:
Regional spatial strategies: To replace, with development plan status, existing planning guidance, and eventually to be kept under review by regional planning bodies.
Local development schemes: To replace structure, local and unitary development plans.
Development: A new definition and a more active role for those with plan-making functions.
Development control: Councils are to have increased ability to decline to determine planning applications and to make their determinations in the light of their local development orders and statements of development principles.
Slip rule: To allow for the correction of certain types of error in decision letters – presumably aimed at certain “essay-marking” appellants.
More detailed comment from Martin Edwards can be found in Planning life in the slow lane Estates Gazette 25 January 2003, p146, and Ups and downs of the planning reforms Estates Gazette 1 February 2003, p140. While welcoming the proposed introduction of a long-overdue uniform national planning application form, Martin foresees a regrettable reduction in democratic involvement in the planning process.
Follow-up point: PP 2003/29
