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Heseltine’s Planning Decision Medicine

Posted on October 31, 2012 by MichaelWellock

No Stone Unturned: In Pursuit of Growth – is, as it’s author Michael Heseltine points out, one man’s attempt to set out a strategy for national wealth creation. Albeit that one man was asked to produce his report by the Prime Minster David Cameron no less. So in No Stone Unturned: In Pursuit of Growth how would Michael Heseltine speed up planning decisions? Remember this is someone, who, as a minister in the 1980s, famously said planners were “tying up jobs in filing cabinets”. So it seems odd that planning has to wait until page 109 of the report, and is introduced with the clunking “one area is at the top of the growth agenda – planning!” And would anyone … Continue reading

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Budget 2012: Implications for Planning

Posted on March 21, 2012 by MichaelWellock

Well after all the speculation on whether he would publish the National Planning Policy Framework on Budget Day, or not (and he hasn’t), what has George Osborne actually said that impacts on town planning and development? The headline grabber is that Government will radically reform the planning system because it is a “barrier to growth”. On Tuesday 27th of March the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) will be published. From that date it will come in to force for plan-making and decisions. Support will be available to local planning authorities to help them get their plans up to date. The NPPF will better support growth, have a “powerful” new presumption in favour of sustainable development, and allow local decisions to … Continue reading

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