Engaging with NIMBYs or LADs groups can be challenging, but it is important to address their concerns in order to build community support for a development project.
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The LDF is a set of documents that sets out a local authority’s policies and proposals for the development and use of land within its area.
Sustainability Appraisal and Strategic Environmental Assessment are tools used at the plan-making stage to assess the likely effects of the plan when judged against reasonable alternatives.
A Sustainability Appraisal is a systematic process that must be carried out during the preparation of Local Plans and Spatial Development Strategies.
Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) is a systematic decision support process, aiming to ensure that environmental and possibly other sustainability aspects are considered effectively in policy, plan and program making.
Highways England (formerly the Highways Agency) is the government company charged with operating, maintaining and improving England’s motorways and major A roads.
The UK has many Historic Battlefield sites, some of which have legal protection through heritage protection legislation whilst others are protected through landscape legislation.
The Planning Inspectorate deals with planning appeals, Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects, planning permission, examinations of Local Plans and other planning-related and specialist casework.
When a Design and Access Statement (DAS) is required in a planning application submission, certain aspects of the design process…
The Bern Convention is a binding international legal instrument in the field of nature conservation, covering most of the natural heritage of the European continent.
Natural England’s main responsibilities include AONBs, the ELC, NCA profiles, LCAs, Heritage Coasts and National Parks.
Submitting a project for planning can be summarised in the following simple steps: Preparation all the necessary documentation and drawings…
Nearly all appeals are decided by Inspectors or by appointed persons; in each case they are solely responsible for their decision.
A National Park Authority is a special term used in the United Kingdom for legal bodies charged with maintaining a National Park.
The developments listed in Schedule 2 of the TCPO (General Permitted Development) (Scotland) 1992, represent developments likely to raise amenity issues.
A Unitary Development Plan (UDP) is an old-style development plan prepared by a metropolitan district and some unitary Local Planning Authorities.
A material consideration is a process in planning law in which the decision maker when assessing an application for development must consider in deciding the outcome of an application.
A ‘minor material amendment’ is likely to include any amendment where its scale and/or nature results in a development which is not substantially different from the one which has been approved.
Development proposals still need to be amended sometimes even after planning permission has been granted. If these amendments are not significant, they may be described as ‘non-material’.