header-logo header-logo

LNB News: Law Society responds to planning policy framework and design code consultation

22 April 2021
Categories: Legal News , Planning , Local government
printer mail-detail
The Law Society has published its response to the Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government’s consultation on proposed changes to the National Planning Policy Framework and National Model Design Code. The Law Society welcomes the greater clarity on terms such as ‘beautiful’ but has made several suggestions for improvement of the framework and code.

Lexis®Library update: The Law Society has highlighted that the proposed changes should:

  • include more recognition that not all development will be ‘new’, as well as better scope for understanding the existing
  • resolve an apparent clash between proposed permitted development changes and use classes changes, which could frustrate ‘sustainable development’
  • recognise the importance of the need for the planning system to respond in a timely way to current and future needs, and balance those competing needs
  • consider how local authorities will adopt the code as it is likely to be a major exercise requiring adequate resources and necessary skills
  • provide clarity on how a code, one established, will be adapted over time
  • ensure that community involvement in plan making is not at the expense of any later involvement in planning decision making, proper scrutiny of decisions and appropriate remedies being available where decision making goes wrong

Source: National Planning Policy Framework and National Model Design Code – Law Society response

This content was first published by LNB News / Lexis®Library, a LexisNexis® company, on 21 April 2021 and is published with permission. Further information can be found at: www.lexisnexis.co.uk.

MOVERS & SHAKERS

DWF—19 appointments

DWF—19 appointments

Belfast team bolstered by three senior hires and 16 further appointments

Cadwalader—Andro Atlaga

Cadwalader—Andro Atlaga

Firm strengthens leveraged finance team with London partner hire

Knights—Ella Dodgson & Rebecca Laffan

Knights—Ella Dodgson & Rebecca Laffan

Double hire marks launch of family team in Leeds

NEWS
Artificial intelligence may be revolutionising the law, but its misuse could wreck cases and careers, warns Clare Arthurs of Penningtons Manches Cooper in this week's NLJ
Small law firms want to embrace technology but feel lost in a maze of jargon, costs and compliance fears, writes Aisling O’Connell of the Solicitors Regulation Authority in this week's NLJ
The Supreme Court issued a landmark judgment in July that overturned the convictions of Tom Hayes and Carlo Palombo, once poster boys of the Libor and Euribor scandal. In NLJ this week, Neil Swift of Peters & Peters considers what the ruling means for financial law enforcement
Charles Pigott of Mills & Reeve reports on Haynes v Thomson, the first judicial application of the Supreme Court’s For Women Scotland ruling in a discrimination claim, in this week's NLJ
Bea Rossetto of the National Pro Bono Centre makes the case for ‘General Practice Pro Bono’—using core legal skills to deliver life-changing support, without the need for niche expertise—in this week's NLJ
back-to-top-scroll