PPS News & Blog

DCLG statement on National Planning Policy Framework consultation
The Planning Minister Greg Clark has announced a review of planning policy, designed to consolidate policy statements, circulars and guidance documents into a single consolidated National Planning Policy Framework.  
The new Framework will be:

localist in its approach, handing power back to local communities to decide what is right [...]

The Department for Communities and Local Government has released the following written statement on the national planning policy framework.
The Minister for Decentralisation (Greg Clark):  The Coalition Agreement states that the Government will publish and present to Parliament a simple and consolidated national planning framework that covers all forms of development and sets out national [...]

Localism Bill – Devil in the detail
It’s finally arrived and what should the development industry make of the contents of the Localism Bill?
Decentralisation has been dropped from the grand title given in the Queen’s Speech – now it’s just the plain old Localism Bill.  But it still weighs in at almost 450 pages and will [...]