Document Status
Current
Supplement
Sustainability, Environment, Development & Planning
Series
Letters to Chief Planning Officers
Abstract
Provides an update on government planning activities. Covers: opportunities for secondment into MHCLG; permitted development rights and use class E; changes to the standard method for assessing local housing need; improving planning performance - updated criteria for designation; Covid-19 responses; enforcement; wider planning matters - national infrastructure strategy, energy white paper, neighbourhood planning research, consultation before applying for planning permission (wind turbines), Building Regulations Part M review - optional technical standards research and mineral planning.
History
Dated December 2020.
Subjects
- Strategic planning
- Planning and development
- Development plans
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.