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Local Plans News
High Court throws out challenge to Ashford local plan
A High Court judge has thrown out a landowner's attempt to get a Kent council's local plan declared unsound over its safeguarding of a former factory site for a new train depot, according to the authority.
Welsh Government proposes scrapping five-year housing land supply requirement
Local authorities in Wales would no longer be required to demonstrate a five-year housing land supply under plans being considered by the Welsh Government.
Jenrick considering whether to approve South Oxfordshire plan himself, says MHCLG
The housing ministry has clarified that the secretary of state is considering whether to approve the troubled South Oxfordshire local plan himself after the council's chief executive wrote to the department to raise concerns about the long-emerging document being "placed on hold" by the minister's intervention.
Local Plan Watch: Reigate and Banstead adopts plan to release green belt for new homes
A Surrey council has adopted a development management plan that removes nine sites from the green belt to allocate land for 845 new homes.
Local Plan Updates
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Northumberland National Park Local Plan - Strategy submitted to Secretary of State
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Isles of Scilly Local Plan - Strategy submitted to Secretary of State
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Chiltern and South Bucks Local Plan - Strategy submitted to Secretary of State
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Reading Local Plan - Found Sound
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Leeds Core Strategy Selective Review - Strategy adopted
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Dartmoor National Park Local Plan - Strategy published
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New Forest National Park Local Plan - Strategy adopted
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Wycombe Local Plan - Strategy adopted
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Forest Heath Core Strategy Single Issue Review- Found Sound
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Doncaster Local Plan - Strategy published
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Local Plans In Depth
How we did it: Consulting on strategic sites quickly and cheaply
Bringing together site promoters and local residents was key to East Hampshire District Council's speedy large sites consultation, writes Mark Wilding.
How councils are avoiding updating their five-year-old plans
A Surrey council's announcement that, following a review of its five-year-old local plan, it had decided that none of the policies needed updating has prompted concerns in the development sector about a potential 'loophole' in national policy and guidance.
Why the Old Oak Common local plan has run into trouble
A planning inspector last week told a development corporation driving a huge London regeneration project to cut a key site from its plan for the area. But the corporation and the landowner are at loggerheads over how the inspector's recommendation will impact on the site's development.
How councils are responding to the local plan threat from the government's air quality nemesis
Local authorities threatened with legal action by an environmental campaign group if their local plan policies fail to meet carbon reduction laws warn that, in some cases, meeting such objectives may delay their plan production or restrict their ability to meet their housing requirement.
