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14.06.2021
Last week we reported on the Government’s announcement of 10 council to test the use of digital tools in the planning process. The announcement included £1.1 million grant fund to implement a ‘pathfinder’ programme across 10 councils...
14.06.2021
Inside Housing reports that the Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee published its first report on the future of the planning system in England. The report includes a chapter on small sites and rural areas. The report expressed concern...
01.06.2021
Nearly 400,000 homes will be built on greenfield sites in the south of England over the next five years, according to a new analysis of planning policy reported in The Times and MailOnline The data suggests large parts of...
01.06.2021
Through a Written Ministerial Statement the Government has set out the requirements on local planning authorities to provide First Homes Concurrently, these were incorporated into amended National Planning Practice Guidance. https://www.gov.uk/guidance/first-homes . Among the clarifications is that...
17.05.2021
The RSN will produce a Rural Lens Review of the Queen’s Speech and the Government’s supporting document for circulation with the Bulletin next week Our overarching comments at this stage are: Many of the measures in...
17.05.2021
The BBC and the Guardian have reported that the Government has confirmed that MPs will vote on a controversial overhaul of England's planning system within the next year The Planning Bill - announced at the Queen's Speech - aims...
26.04.2021
Some Good News but a need to remain vigilant The Government’s response to the Consultation on Changes to the Current Planning System has now been published and there is some good news in terms of concerns raised by...
26.04.2021
There has been a 129 per cent increase in developments planned on greenfield land, putting them at risk of ‘rapid and reckless’ projects, according to new data from the Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE) In its Beauty Still...
01.03.2021
Following an All Party Parliamentary Group meeting for Rural Services, the Chairman Rt Hon Philip Dunne MP wrote to the Minister for Housing to consider: The importance of rural exception sites to deliver affordable housing Applying a...
22.02.2021
Ros Coward, Professor Emerita of Journalism at Roehampton University, has written in the Guardian this week that local action groups are protesting to save stretches of the countryside from destruction, including housing projects and road building projects planned on green-belts...
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Public Sector Funding
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Future of Rural Areas
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