After eight months and two days since the publication of the consultation draft in July 2011, we now have the live version of the National Planning Policy Framework in force.
So what has changed? The difference is a more nuanced document that provides a series of concessions to a wide range of those who responded to [...]
The Budget didn’t quite deliver what the development sector had been hoping for – the publication of the final version of the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF).
However, to underpin his pro-growth agenda, the Chancellor was able to confirm that the final NPPF will now be published next Tuesday, 27 March and come into immediate effect, [...]
Earlier this week, PPS Group managing director, Stephen Byfield sat on a panel of industry experts at the HBF Policy Conference in London to debate the forthcoming National Planning Policy Framework. Other panellists included Ben Cowell from The National Trust, Cllr Neil Clarke, Leader of Rushcliffe Borough Council and Nick Scregg, MD of Special Projects [...]
Taken from the March 2012 edition of Housebuilder magazine.
The government has stayed calm under fire during the rows over the new National Planning Policy Framework, says Stephen Byfield, managing director of communications consultancy PPS Group, but will planning inspectors do the same?
There are all kinds of advantages to playing a long game so inaction dulls the attack [...]