Labour Plans a Reform of the Planning System

by Robert Gillespie BA(hons) MRTPI | Managing Director | Tuesday 9th July 2024 It was well trailed before the election. Rachel Reeves (the Chancellor of the Exchequer) has now however formally announced the intended reform of the English planning system. For too long seen as being one of the more detrimental obstacles to growth, we […]

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Yet Another NPPF on its Way?

What? Another One? If you think that the long-awaited revised version of the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) wasn’t enough, we may well be faced with yet another version after the forthcoming General Election!  by Robert Gillespie, Managing Director | 22 March 2024 Planning practitioners have to be braced for what could well be yet […]

The revised National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF)

So what’s new? Following the publication of the consultation draft earlier in March this year, the Ministry of Housing Communities & Local Government (MHCLG) published the revised NPPF just as Parliament went into its summer recess at the end of July. Very predictably, nothing very much has changed between the March and July versions. There […]

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