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I offer the following comments (in italic) on the list issued today. The National Trust’s ten asks of the NPPF are: 1. Confirmation that the planning system should not be used as a blunt tool to ‘proactively drive development’. Planning is a sophisticated tool, and it is able to drive economic development proactively. That was […] This morning saw a very interesting debate at the offices of Berwin Leighton Paisner, organised by the British Property Federation. I am grateful to BLP for allowing me to be there. What were the significant points? Greg Clark – the intent is to put power into the hands of local communities who […] At last. It takes The Times to publish a letter putting the record straight on the presumption. It is not from me – The Telegraph has failed so far to publish any of the half-dozen or so letters I have written to it – but from George Dobry QC, the very distinguished planning barrister, and […] I have been pointing out for some time that the presumption is not new, and dates from 1923. This point was made by Michael Harrison QC (who became a distinguished High Court judge) in a 1992 article in the Journal of Planning and Environmental Law, and by Professor Michael Purdue in his analysis (also published […] Yesterday the Government issued its “Myth-buster” on the National Planning Policy Framework. Readers of this blog and other articles by me will know that I have been pointing out for some time that the presumption in favour of development is nothing new and can be traced back to 1923 (see for example my article on […] There is an interesting but tendentious article in The Times yesterday about the National Trust’s own residential developments at Erdigg near Wrexham and at Cliveden (near Slough, in the green belt). The NT gets a rather unfair treatment as the article suggests both developments are in the green belt and also does not point […] Twenty-three former presidents of the RTPI have written to the Telegraph today calling for reasoned debate on the draft NPPF and offering the resources of the RTPI to mediate what they call the openly-hostile debate. That is very helpful. The National Trust can perhaps claim to have got the ball rolling with its petition […] This is a new blog about planning law and planning, at a time of extensive change in the planning system. It aims to comment on planning law and the system. I shall be putting up my thinking and reactions to changes. I will also use it for news about planning. To begin with, I thought […] |
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