Rolling posts on UK planning law, policy, appeals, plan examinations…
🏆 The #Planoraks 2020 🏆 - most radical planning reform of the year
The field's never been more crowded. And the winner was a late entry.
🏆 The #Planoraks 2020 🏆 - worst planning article of the year
The votes are in. But there can be only 1 winner.
Notes on planning reform: Follow the Money
How much planning reform do we get for £12 million?
Not *that* and not *there* - when alternatives matter (and when they don’t)
Headlines from the law of alternatives.
“Robust, over-cluttered, under-resourced” - my favourite response to the Planning White Paper
The responses are in! Here’s my favourite answer to the Planning for the Future consultation.
The end of Neighbourhood Plans?
What's left for Neighbourhood Plans to do under the Planning White Paper?
A weekend read: the future of strategic planning
This week’s must-read report on the future of strategic planning.
In the zone #3 - the problem with “Protect” areas
What exactly are we supposed to be protecting?
Judicial review for planners: what’s the point?
How judicial review shapes our planning system, and the danger of cutting it back.
Ask-a-planorak #7 - Steve Quartermain CBE
Steve Quartermain CBE, Chief Planner for over a decade, answers 10 questions on the Government’s proposals for planning reform.
The basics #9 - “Permission in Principle”
The state of the law on PiPs, and the Government’s proposals for reform.
Planning vs. politics - 3 big tests facing “Planning for the Future”
3 key political challenges for the planning White Paper and its approach to housing numbers.
In the zone #2 - Welcome to “Growth” areas
How to promote development in the “Growth” areas proposed in the “Planning for the Future” White Paper.
Back to the drawing board: the state of the law on section 73 “variations”
Where things stand after a big year for the law on amending planning permissions.
Notes from the High Street: Class E vs. the NPPF
How Class E changes what English town planning is about.
A National Housing Plan - the White Paper’s really radical idea
The new “binding” standardised housing targets in “Planning for the Future”.
Ask-a-planorak #6 - Christopher Katkowski QC
10 questions with Christopher Katkowski QC, part of the Government’s “Planning for the Future” task force.
