Enfield Inspector Approves Two New Town Green Belt Sites but deletes other smaller Green Belt Releases
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Pennycook blocks Torbay Local Plan Submission for only meeting 45% of Housing Need
Intervention Letter In November, the Council published a draft local plan for Regulation 18 consultation with a housing requirement that met just 42% of the area’s Local Housing Need (LHN), leaving a shortfall of 10,980 homes over the plan period. There appears to be limited up-to-date evidence available to justify the Council’s approach. I am Continue reading Pennycook blocks Torbay Local Plan…
Reform Leadr of Calderdale Threatens to Take Allocated Former Green Belt Sites out of Local Plan
Yorkshire Live Sections of Calderdale s housing strategy for development through the coming decade may be reversed, the council s leader has suggested. Calderdale Council Leader, Councillor Dan Sutherland, indicates that the figures have shifted and his administration intends to modify the authority s Local Plan, which designates land where new residential and commercial developments could be…
Did Oxford make an Elementary Error in Not putting its Local Plan to Full Council?
Local Government Lawyer I thought it was well known that under Local Authorities (Functions and Responsibilities) (England) Regulations 2000 decisions on local plans were reserved to full council. Reg 8 of the SEA regs simply states that you cant submit until the SEA consultation is concluded in line with the regs. Im wondering of the Continue reading Did Oxford make an Elementary Error in Not…
Can Enfield Block a New Town?
Guardian Enfield council in north London has withdrawn from the government’s new towns programme, in a significant blow to Labour’s flagship housebuilding scheme. The move by the new minority Conservative-led administration could present one of the first tests of Rachel Reeves’s planning changes, designed to curb the use of judicial reviews against new infrastructure. The project to build Continue…
Grey Belt Site in Middle of Nowhere
Interesting recovered appeal in Thurrock Grey Belt but not adjoining a village, refused for not meeting golden rule on sustainable transport An hourly service insufficient. Subsidy for hourly service not viable in long term and scale not related in scale or kind so does not meet CIL regs. Certainly the Grey Belt definition could be Continue reading Grey Belt Site in Middle of Nowhere
No need to Zone for Any Hyperscale Datacentres in UK
Imagine the government set a target of building 26 million houses by 2030. Crazy right, Unachievable right? Well for datacentres that is precisely the government plan. IT Pro, “There are upwards of 50 gigawatts (GW) of data centers wanting to connect to the grid by 2030,” says Dan Roberts, executive director at Frontier Economics’ energy Continue reading No need to Zone for Any Hyperscale…
The Tragic Loss of the London Dual Aspect Rule @SteveReedMP
Under pressure from the government the Mayor of London has dropped the Maximise dual aspect dwelling rule from the London Design guide The rule was introduced to reduce overheating. However since the single staircase rule was dropped it has become almost impossible to implement as this effectivelymandates double stacked corridors. The rule whilst it existed Continue reading The Tragic Loss of the…
Three Leading Counsels Opinions on one Grey Belt Site – what a spectacular waste of money
LAND SOUTH OF SHENLEY HILL, RADLETT; GREEN BELT; GREY BELT; REVIEW by Josef Cannon KC I have seen and read two Opinions, one from Rupert Warren KC and Ashley Bowes, and the other from Lord Banner KC. Both Opinions address the question of whether the land is to be considered Grey Belt. Before addressing each, Continue reading Three Leading Counsels Opinions on one Grey Belt Site what a spectacular…