Current
Sustainability, Environment, Development & Planning
Letters to Chief Planning Officers
Provides an update on government planning activities. Covers: planning reform: supporting the high street and increasing the delivery of new homes; developer contributions; independent review of build out: final report; neighbourhood planning: budget announcement; building better, building beautiful commission; technical consultation on updates to national planning policy and guidance; Government response to the National Infrastructure Commission study on the Cambridge-Milton Keynes-Oxford Arc; shale gas update; European Union Exit and planning regulations; review deadline for brownfield land registers and permission in principle; habitats regulations assessments; onshore wind development; and user survey on planning practice guidance.
Dated November 2018.
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.
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