South west planning news

Highways England’s announcement regarding the preferred tunnel route for the A303 at Stonehenge, and the proposed timescale and procedure for seeking consent, is this month’s headline news.

Other south west news includes consultation on housing sites by North Somerset Council.

National news stories cover the main parties’ planning-related proposals as announced at their party conferences, and the temporary permitted development right for change of use from light industrial to residential coming into force.

And we review recent Department of Communities and Local Government ministers’ announcements relating to housing design, the Housing White Paper, and a social housing Green Paper.

Read more on this and other new law and policy initiatives in Lichfields’ latest South West Planning News.

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