National Planning Policy Guidance (NPPG)

Policy updates, documents and news relating to National Planning Policy Guidance (NPPG).

NPPG Key Documents

Planning Practice Guidance - Updated guidance on recovery of appeals.

22 September 2015

The Department for Communities and Local Government has updated the Planning Practice Guidance website with regard to the recovery of appeals.

NPPG Resources

National Planning Policy Framework
Planning Practice Guidance web site (DCLG)
Policy & Legislation Tracker
The latest planning policy and legislation news & updates including current government consultations and legislation in progress delivered by email.

Principal Urban Designer / Landscape Officer Swale Borough Council Swale, Kent
Principal Planning Officer - Spatial Planning Swale Borough Council Swale, Kent
2 X Planning Officer /  Senior Planning Officers – Development Management Swale Borough Council Swale, Kent
Spatial Planning Manager Lewis Davey CB Civic Centre, Wembley Park, London (Central)
Planner/Senior Planner Turley Reading, Berkshire

NPPG News & Analysis

Think-tank calls for scrapping of London Plan space standards to support 'micro-homes'

By Michael Donnelly, 22 January 2019

The emerging London Plan should be amended to remove minimum space requirements for co-living units and "micro-homes" in order to help the capital become "a denser, more liveable city", a report by free market think-tank the Adam Smith Institute has recommended.

Deputy mayor endorses draft London Plan at opening of examination

By John Geoghegan, 16 January 2019

London needs a "strong and ambitious" London Plan to manage the high level of growth the city is facing, the deputy mayor for planning said yesterday at the opening of the examination of the capital's overarching spatial strategy.

Isle of Wight agrees plan to revoke permissions from sites if no building activity after two years

By Colin Marrs, 14 January 2019

Isle of Wight Council has agreed plans to revoke planning permissions from developers where there has been no "visible" activity on sites two years after consent was granted.

Survey highlights widespread council worries over SuDS planning regime

By Colin Marrs, 11 January 2019

Almost all local authorities report that the quality of planning application submissions for sustainable drainage systems (SuDS) are either "inadequate" or "mixed", according to a survey by two built environment professional bodies.

NPPG Policy & Legislation Updates

NPPG In Depth & Comment

The impact national policy changes on viability have had on the ground

The government introduced a series of new viability requirements in the National Planning Policy Framework and Planning Practice Guidance earlier this year. Five months on, what impact has there been on the ground, asks Adam Branson.

What the standard method deadline means for local plans

Research shows that half of the local plans submitted since the new National Planning Policy Framework was published last July are planning for fewer homes than the proposed new standard method of assessing housing need would require.

How new permitted development rights allowing upwards extensions could affect the system

What opportunities and challenges would a proposed new permitted development right allowing new housing via upwards extensions present for applicants and authorities, Stuart Watson asks.