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NPPG Key Documents
Planning Practice Guidance - Updated guidance on recovery of appeals.
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.
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NPPG News & Analysis
Small sites affordable housing policy upheld
An inspector found good reason to depart from national affordable housing policy and refused permission for the conversion of a care home into six flats in a Sussex city.
10 key things that happened this week
Ten of the biggest stories from the past week, including news that permission for 370 homes in the open countryside near Thornbury in Gloucestershire has been refused by an inspector.
Inspector blocks 370 Gloucestershire homes over heritage impacts
Permission for 370 homes in the open countryside near Thornbury in Gloucestershire has been refused by an inspector who ruled that likely harm to nearby listed buildings put the development at odds with the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF).
Local Plan Watch: Number of submitted plans falls since standard method cut-off date
The number of local plans being submitted for examination has slowed in the months following the introduction of a requirement for councils to adopt the government's standard methodology for assessing housing need, analysis by Planning has found.
NPPG Policy & Legislation Updates
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Planning Policy Guidance amendments: Neighbourhood planning and Viability
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National Planning Policy Framework (February 2019 Revision)
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National Planning Policy Framework - Revised 2018
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Planning Guidance on Fracking inquiry
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Draft Planning Practice Guidance on Viability
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NPPG updated - When is permission required?
NPPG In Depth & Comment
The implications of allowing neighbourhoods to set their own housing need numbers
Updated neighbourhood planning guidance that allows plan-making bodies to produce their own housing requirement figure may place burdens on community groups, practitioners fear.
What new viability guidance means for applicants and authorities
Updated guidance on viability has further clarified the way land values are assessed, say practitioners, but will throw up both benefits and challenges for councils and developers.
The most frequent, and most successful, major housing appellants
Our exclusive data reveals the firms that have lodged the most major housing appeals over the past seven years, their success rates and much more. By Mark Wilding.
Trends in major housing appeals 2012-19
It began as a trickle rather than as a flood. Only 361 major housing appeal decisions were issued in the year after the National Planning Policy Framework was introduced.
Policy Briefings
Briefing: How can planners address the need to improve health and wellbeing?
Strategies and assessments are key tools for planning for health, but could be used by more local authorities, Michael Chang suggests.
Briefing: Charting progress in the London Plan examination
The examination into the draft London Plan ends in May. Questions remain on the plan's approach to housing, says Jonathan Bainbridge.
Briefing: How new guidance says economic need should be assessed
Advice on assessments fills a gap in the guidance but fails to resolve key issues, say Cristina Howick and Richard Pestell.
