Document Status
Current
Supplement
Sustainability, Environment, Development & Planning
Series
Letters to Chief Planning Officers
Abstract
Provides an update on government planning activities. Covers: revised National Planning Policy Framework, Planning Practice Guidance, Planning Advisory Service (PAS) events on the new NPPF, housing delivery test, independent review of planning appeal inquiries, planning for shale gas - update, home loss payments under the Land Compensation Act 1973, imposing pre-commencement conditions, 2017/18 annual casework report to Parliament, developing future planners, developer contributions and open data tools, publication of the review of planning policy for sustainable drainage, design charrettes - call for expressions of interest and local digital declaration and fund.
History
Dated September 2018.
Subjects
- Planning and development
Publisher History
The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government is a UK Government ministerial department with responsibility for several policy areas including building regulation, community integration, economic development in coastal and seaside areas, energy efficiency in buildings, high streets and town centres, housing, local enterprise partnerships (LEPs) and Enterprise Zones, localism, planning reform and the planning system. They were previously known as the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, MHCLG, Department for Communities and Local Government, the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, and the Department for Transport and Local Government.