Just over a month ago we reported that Purbeck District Council had finally reached the stage of Public Examination of its Core Strategy. We also noted that in reaching this milestone Purbeck had clocked up an impressive (or depressing depending on which way you look at it) nine stages of […]
Winchester Local Plan submitted for examination
Winchester City Council has submitted its Local Plan Part 1 – Joint Core Strategy to the Secretary of State. The document will be subject to a Public Examination by Planning Inspector anticipated to be in September or October of this year. Those who have already made representations on the document […]
West Dorset and Weymouth and Portland propose new Levy on Development
Slowly but surely the Local Authorities in the south are rolling out their proposed Community Infrastructure Levy development charges (Need a reminder about CIL? Read our briefing note here…). They are all beginning to follow a very familiar pattern – hefty charges on big retail and residential development and everything else gets […]
West Dorset and Weymouth and Portland get it together…
At last! Working together West Dorset District Council and Weymouth and Portland Borough Council have produced a draft Joint Local Plan and have published it for “pre-submission” consultation. Whilst the document will function as the Core Strategy under the new Local Development Framework rules it will also do everything the old […]
Eastleigh Borough Council forced to consider extending housing allocations
Eastleigh Borough Council today launches a new consultation following up its Local Plan consultation in the winter. It seems that the latest evidence suggests under performance against housing figures, partly as a result of lower densities coming forward. So they are having to consult on enlarged housing allocations which includes […]
Where are they going to put the new houses in Havant?
This is the principle question facing those responding to Havant Borough Council’s current informal consultation on its forthcoming Allocations Plan. The last two exhibitions in a series are being held today but to avoid having to venture out in this heat all is available online here. You only have until the […]
Unlawful decisions stall Basingstoke planning policy progress
Back in February we reported on the Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council pre-submission Core Strategy consultation. Progress on the Core Strategy has now been halted by a successful legal challenge brought about by the Manydown Company Limited in relation to the failure of the Council to allocate land for housing development at […]
New planning policies adopted in Poole
Poole Borough Council went ahead and adopted its Site Specific Allocations and Development Management Policies DPD and Delivering Poole’s Infrastructure DPD at a meeting of the Council on 24 April 2012. The old Local Plan is now defunct save for three rather randomly retained policies: T12 – Coach and Lorry Park E1 – Employment Land […]
Poole set to adopt new policies
Following the receipt of the Inspector’s report Poole Borough Council are expected to adopt its Site Specific Allocations and Development Management Policies DPD and Delivering Poole’s Infrastructure DPD at a meeting of the Council on 24 April 2012. The Site Specific Allocations and Development Management Policies DPD (SSAADMPDPD!) combines a host of policies relating to […]
Purbeck District Council reach planning policy milestone
Unbelievably it is ten years since the public inquiry closed into the Purbeck Local Plan. That plan, already long in the making, was overtaken by the planning system shifting around it and ultimately could not be adopted. This still leaves Purbeck as one of the very few Council’s without an adopted Local Plan […]