Thames Valley planning news

A report to Slough Borough Council’s Planning Committee regarding a proposed northern extension of Slough into Buckinghamshire is this month’s headline news. 

We also provide an update on South Oxfordshire’s draft Local Plan.

In national news, we review the main parties’ planning-related proposals as announced at their party conferences.  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.

In other national news, the temporary permitted development right for change of use from light industrial to residential is now in force, as are various compulsory purchase-related provisions of the Neighbourhood Planning Act 2017.

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

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