Winsford N.P. Take note. Below is an extract from the planning portal we site. Infrastructure and a local plan in place are required. The Commons Communities and Local Government select committee this week published its report into the National Planning Policy Framework. In it, the MPs acknowledged that the NPPF “brought a welcome simplification and consolidation of planning policy” on its introduction in 2012. The committee made a number of recommendations to change the NPPF including requiring that environmental and social aspects of development proposals be given the same weight as economic aspects, and that permission be granted for development only if the necessary infrastructure was included. In response, Housing and Planning Minister Brandon Lewis said: “This Governments planning reforms have ensured strong protections of the open countryside and the Green Belt, while at the same time putting power back in the hands of local people through the abolition of top-down Regional Strategies. Our locally-led planning reforms are working, as 240,000 badly needed new homes received planning permission in the last 12 months. But the simple way for councils to send speculative developers packing is to have an up-to-date local plan - 80 per cent of councils now have a published Local Plan and slow-coach councils should be held to account by local voters for dragging their feet.
Posted on: Sat, 20 Dec 2014 13:23:32 +0000
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