Post by rosegriffin on Jun 8, 2014 8:58:20 GMT
Here is some up-dated information about the current situation with regard to planning at both local and national level.
As an example of local planning gone mad, Cheshire East reports that since the inception of the NPPF there have been twenty one appeals for developments of more than ten houses of which twenty were upheld. The one that was refused is now being reviewed. None of these developments were in areas designated in the local plan and it has cost Cheshire East £398,162 to fight them. It has now submitted a local plan which is being examined.
Nationally, the Government has now decided to remove the zero carbon targets for housing projects below 50 houses. Although the intent is to make things easier for small building companies, there is nothing to prevent larger building companies putting in applications in tranches to benefit from the legislation.
The Government has also amended its regulations to allow developers to renege on requirements for affordable housing on the grounds of financial viability. We are concerned that this will mean no affordable housing. The link to the relevant article is contained below:
www.newstatesman.com/politics/2014/05/developers-able-demolish-affordable-housing-provision
On the 4th June 2014 three funding programmes, worth around £3 million, to support the development of new Community Land Trusts (CLTs) was launched in a House of Commons reception, see the link below:
www.insidehousing.co.uk/development/boost-for-community-building-projects-across-england-and-wales/7004001.article
A new petition for amendment to the NPPF can be accessed via epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/59376. We urge you to sign this, please.
We would like to thank all those who responded to the review of the NPPF called for by the Committee for Communities and Local Government. Many of the concerns that we have been expressing for so long were echoed by organisations such as CPRE, the National Trust, Royal Society for Town and Country Planners and so on.
As an example of local planning gone mad, Cheshire East reports that since the inception of the NPPF there have been twenty one appeals for developments of more than ten houses of which twenty were upheld. The one that was refused is now being reviewed. None of these developments were in areas designated in the local plan and it has cost Cheshire East £398,162 to fight them. It has now submitted a local plan which is being examined.
Nationally, the Government has now decided to remove the zero carbon targets for housing projects below 50 houses. Although the intent is to make things easier for small building companies, there is nothing to prevent larger building companies putting in applications in tranches to benefit from the legislation.
The Government has also amended its regulations to allow developers to renege on requirements for affordable housing on the grounds of financial viability. We are concerned that this will mean no affordable housing. The link to the relevant article is contained below:
www.newstatesman.com/politics/2014/05/developers-able-demolish-affordable-housing-provision
On the 4th June 2014 three funding programmes, worth around £3 million, to support the development of new Community Land Trusts (CLTs) was launched in a House of Commons reception, see the link below:
www.insidehousing.co.uk/development/boost-for-community-building-projects-across-england-and-wales/7004001.article
A new petition for amendment to the NPPF can be accessed via epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/59376. We urge you to sign this, please.
We would like to thank all those who responded to the review of the NPPF called for by the Committee for Communities and Local Government. Many of the concerns that we have been expressing for so long were echoed by organisations such as CPRE, the National Trust, Royal Society for Town and Country Planners and so on.