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Legal Report - Validation revisions put speedier system at risk

Trevor Ivory, Planning, 16 May 2008

The increase in application fees and standard application form introduced last month have taken the spotlight off an amendment to the General Development Procedure Order (GDPO) 1995 that is likely to be of greater concern for developers.

According to the government, its changes to the validation procedure are intended to "make the application process quicker and easier for the applicant by providing more certainty and standardisation about...