Thames Valley planning news

This month’s headline news provides an update on agreements between planning authorities in Buckinghamshire and Berkshire regarding the distribution of local housing requirements.  Related to this, we provide an update on the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead’s draft Local Plan.

 

We also report on two High Court judgments regarding Secretary of State decisions: the first which explored the materiality of one recent Secretary of State decision to another, and the other relating to the Communities Secretary not taking a proposed condition into account when making his decision.

 

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

In addition, Parliament returns today; we anticipate planning policy-related announcements to emerge in the next ten days, before Parliament rises again for party conference season.

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