Southampton City Council: This week sees the hearing sessions of the joint Examination into the City Centre Action Plan (CCAP) and Core Strategy Partial Review. Southampton’s City Centre Action Plan, which seems to have been a very long time in the making, aims to guide development in the south’s largest city centre. […]
De ja vu? More new permitted development rights…
England: Well it must be that time of year again. The Government have published a new amendment to the General Permitted Development Order introducing a number of new permitted development rights for change of use coming into effect 06 April 2014 including: 1) Use Class A1 and A2 to residential […]
Government tears up the rule books…
England: The Government has taken the next step in its bid to reduce the clutter of planning policy documents. Yesterday they released the final version of the National Planning Practice Guidance and at the same time confirmed the cancellation of over 150 separate policy documents some dating back to the […]
New CIL regs in force – exemptions for self-builders and home extensions
England and Wales: The Community Infrastructure Levy (Amendment) Regulations 2014 came into force yesterday (24 February 2014) providing new exemptions from the Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL) for people looking to build their own homes and house extensions. Many Local Authorities will be relieved that these amendments give them a further year (until […]
Updated: the Pure Town Planning handy guide to the Use Classes Order
England: Everyone loves a free download and this handy look-up sheet has long been our most popular. We have just updated it to reflect recent changes to permitted development rights – click on the image to download the latest version. The enquiries are beginning to trickle in on the new […]
New Permitted Development rights to apply from 30 May
England: The Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (Amendment) (England) Order 2013 will come into effect on 30 May 2013 and with it a number of much-anticipated permitted development rights. The new rights include larger rear extensions to houses and the change of use from offices to dwellings. But […]
The planning free-for-all begins…
England: You will see a lot of headlines similar to this throughout the week. It is of course the usual scaremongering tactics from the likes of the Daily Telegraph and the Campaign to Protect “Rural” England cashing in on the one year anniversary of the publication of the National Planning Policy […]
Office to residential permitted development rights to come into force end of May
Planning Minister Nick Boles is reported as stating that the government’s new permitted development rights for change of use from B1(a) offices to C3 residential will come into force on 30 May 2013. So soon we find out which Councils have gotten exemptions and whether the conditions of the new […]
Planning fees to increase on 22 November 2012!
OK my prediction was a few days out in the end – but it is confirmed that the 15% planning fees increase is to take effect on 22 November 2012. This gives everyone just a week to get anything submitted beforehand – no time at all really especially given that […]
STILL wondering when planning fees are going up?
Yep so are we. It seems that the draft Regulations are still going through the Parliamentary affirmative resolution procedure which needs to be completed before they can be made and brought into force. The draft Regulations which set out the new fees indicate that they will come into force the day after […]