This web resource is home to Lichfields' coverage and analysis of the ongoing planning reform and the passage of the Levelling Up and Regeneration Bill. It will be updated as announcements and consultations are released, in order to highlight the implications and provide thought leadership for the industry.
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The Government has proposed to change the nature of local plans, while also seeking to simplify the process of producing them. Development plans are expected to be given greater weight in the decision-making process, while generic national development management policies would form part of the development plan. This section looks at the future of plan-making – from the strategic to the neighbourhood level.
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Start me up – but then you stopped: the continuing cost of local plan delays
Isabella Tidswell | 30 Jan 2023
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A shorter, simpler process?
Thomas Davies | 16 May 2022
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Five year land supply: Not dead after all
Harry Bennett | 24 May 2022
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Spatial Awareness
The role of Spatial Development Strategies
The proposed changes to legislation would lead to significant change to several aspects of the development management process, including heritage. These include a new route to vary planning permissions, increasing the weight given to development plans, monitoring build out rates and raising planning fees. The enforcement regime proposed would be more flexible for authorities, with longer time frames for enforcement action and greater opportunity to offer enforcement relief.
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Consultation published on increasing planning fees and improving performance
Sean Farrissey | 01 Mar 2023
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The misdirected exhumation of housebuilder land 'hoarding'
Matthew Spry | 04 Jul 2023
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The draft NPPF - ‘Density and the implications for suburbia'
Simon Slatford | 11 Jan 2023
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Buffer the land supply slayer
Harry Bennett | 13 Jan 2023
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The future of development management
Sean Farrissey | 25 May 2022
The Bill proposes to reform of developer contributions through the introduction of the infrastructure levy. This would be a non-negotiable levy based on final development value and would include affordable housing contributions. Eventually all local planning authorities in England would have to charge it. This section provides an overview of what is known about the infrastructure levy and will be updated as more details emerge.
The bill proposes a number of measures addressing town centres and regeneration ranging from reforms to compulsory purchase orders to high street rental auctions. The Government intend that combined with wider non-legislative policy changes and funding, in sum these changes ‘raise people’s satisfaction with their town centre’ - one of the 12 levelling up missions.
Beyond the legal changes proposed in the Bill, much of the Government’s levelling up agenda will be shaped by the policies and strategies set out in the White Paper, and the associated funding arrangements. The Government have been clear that in order to succeed in it’s 12 missions for levelling up, devolution will also need to be a significant part of the agenda. This section provides an overview of the levelling up agenda ‘beyond the bill’ and will be updated as more details emerge.
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Moving on up?
Levelling-up town centres across Northern England
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Levelling Up Fund Round 2: Updated Area Prioritisations
Selina Pazos | 28 Mar 2022
WEB RESOURCE
Planning Reform and the new Standard Method
The Government's new approach to local housing need.
WEB RESOURCE
Planning for the Future White Paper
Guidance on planning reform
