The government has issued a consultation paper proposing revisions to both PPG15 – Planning and the Historic Environment and PPG16 –Archeology and Planning. The new PPS15 aims to make the most of England’s historic assets such as Victorian railway stations and canals. It brings together policies on archaeology, historic areas, buildings and landscapes in order [...]
The Mayor’s Outer London commission has recommended to London Mayor Boris Johnson that he should consider a less restrictive car-parking policy in outer London in a bid to encourage commercial development.
The report pointed out that outer London offices were having to compete with adjacent urban centres in the Home Counties like Crawley, Chelmsford and Reading [...]
The Government has announced that the first four successful eco-town sites, which will pioneer innovative design and infrastructure for greener living, are:
Whitehill-Bordon in Hampshire
St Austell (China Clay) in Cornwall
Rackheath in Norfolk
North West Bicester in Oxfordshire
Planning minister John Healey told Parliament that developers in the four successful locations will be able to [...]
The Government has published the UK Renewable Energy Strategy 2009. This document emphasises the need to radically increase our use of renewable electricity, heat and transport in view of the legally binding target of obtaining 15% of our energy from renewable sources by 2020.
The Energy Strategy proposes:
Generating more than 30% of our electricity from [...]
The Government issued a consultation paper in May 2009 seeking views on a new Planning Policy Statement 4 which would bring together in one place all the Government’s key planning policies relating to the economy. The intention is to streamline and simplify policy so that it becomes easier to focus on what is needed to [...]
Life of a Planning Permission
Planning permissions are granted for a specific period. If the development permitted by the planning permission is not begun in accordance with the permission before the end of the period specified in the permission then the permission expires. This is to ensure that development is commenced in a timely fashion so [...]
