Southampton City Council: Just a quick update following our recent post on the hearing sessions of the joint Examination into the City Centre Action Plan (CCAP) and Core Strategy Partial Review. The hearing sessions have closed and the Inspector Christine Downes has recommended a number of modifications which Southampton City Council have been […]
Southampton City Council planning policy update
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 […]
Bournemouth and Poole: where have all your empty offices gone?
Bournemouth and Poole, Dorset: I have been surprised by the lack of take up of the new permitted development right to change the use of B1 offices into C3 residential particularly in Bournemouth and Poole. Over in Southampton the applications for prior approval have been rolling in including plans to convert […]
Hampshire Community Infrastructure Levy update
Hampshire: The somewhat breathtaking news that Hart District Council are intending to charge £800 per square metre Community Infrastructure Levy (Yes! Eight hundred not a typo) in some areas, reminded me that various CIL updates need reporting. Fareham: First up has to be Fareham Borough Council who have adopted CIL and began […]
Southampton cuts CIL rates – for most
After months of silence finally we hear from Southampton City Council as it opens the next stage consultation on its proposed Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL) charging schedule. Many will be delighted to hear that prices per square metre have fallen since the preliminary table published last year. They are now […]
Southampton City Council City Centre consultations update
In addition to completing its consultation on the Community Infrastructure Levy today, Southampton City Council has issued three new documents for a consultation period ending at midday on 23 March 2012. These consist of a proposed Partial Review of its adopted Core Strategy, a City Centre Action Plan and a […]