DCLG has issued information to help local government better understand the New Homes Bonus and how it will operate and be funded. From next year the funding for Bonus payments will explicitly come from the current formula grant pool for local authority support, meaning that those who don’t build houses will lose funding to those [...]
CALA Homes has failed in its latest high court bid to have the government’s interim approach to RSS abolition quashed. The result of the high court judgment is that the government can continue to state that its intention to formally abolish the RSS’s via legislation in the Localism Bill is a material planning consideration. See [...]
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 [...]