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This is important for practitioners to consider as the government ramps up focus of environmentally friendly developments, particularly through the Towns Fund, as well as the drawing nearer of the UK’s climate targets.
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This week's edition of Planning weekly highlights includes: MHCLG becomes Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, Nature Positive 2030...
This week's edition of Planning weekly highlights includes: analysis of judgment concerning immunity from enforcement against a material change of...
Planning analysis: In October 2019 Cornwall Council enforced against a change of use from an agricultural field to a holiday use for the stationing of...
Planning analysis: The Judicial Review and Courts Bill (the Bill), first announced in the Queen’s Speech in May 2021 to introduce reforms to judicial...
This week's edition of Planning weekly highlights includes: consultation on permanence of outdoor measures for high streets, report shows that...
Judicial review—how to start proceedingsThis Practice Note summarises the procedural stages in a judicial review application and then describes in...
Failure to comply with planning enforcement—criminal liability and direct actionUnder the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 (TCPA 1990), a breach of...
The National Infrastructure Delivery Plan 2016–2021The National Infrastructure Delivery Plan 2016–2021 ('NIDP') was published by the Infrastructure...
Build to Rent schemes—key featuresThis Practice Note:•discusses the development of the large scale private rented sector (PRS)•considers the...
Habitats and wildlife issues for developersBrexit11 pm (GMT) on 31 December 2020 marked the end of the Brexit transition/implementation period entered...
Environmental Information Regulations 2004, Data Protection Act 1998, Freedom of Information Act 2000—provision for disclosure by a local authority...
Environmental Information Regulations 2004—request for environmental information[Insert name of public authority][Insert public authority's address,...
Precedent s 278 agreementDATE [insert date]Parties1[insert name] of [insert address] (the ‘Council’)2[insert name] of [insert address] [incorporated...
Precedent bond agreementDATE [insert date]Parties1[insert name] of [insert address] [incorporated in England and Wales with company registration...
Highway projection licenceDATE [date]Parties1[name of Authority] of [address] ( Authority)2[name of Licensee] [of OR incorporated in England and...
Planning policy is contained primarily within national policy documents and the development plan.Welsh national planning policy is contained...
Building regulations—enforcementThe Building Regulations 2010, SI 2010/2214 (the Building Regulations) are made under the Building Act 1984 (BA 1984)....
Material change of useControl of developmentPursuant to section 57 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 (TCPA 1990), planning permission is...
Coronavirus (COVID-19): This Practice Note contains guidance on subjects potentially impacted by the government’s response to the coronavirus outbreak...
The EU Birds Directive—summaryThe EU Birds Directive—summaryEU Council Directive 2009/147/EC on the conservation of wild birds (OJ L 20, 26.1.2010)...
The existence of a town or village green (TVG) may restrict or even prevent development. It is a criminal offence to disturb or interfere with the use...
Role of material considerations in planning decisionsWhen considering an application for planning permission or permission in principle, section 70(2)...
Coronavirus (COVID-19): This Practice Note contains guidance on subjects potentially impacted by the government’s response to the coronavirus...
Coronavirus (COVID-19): This Practice Note contains guidance on subjects potentially impacted by the government’s response to the coronavirus outbreak...
IntroductionThe purpose of section 215 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 (TCPA 1990) is to give a local planning authority (LPA) power to take...
Presumption in favour of sustainable developmentPolicy contextThe original version of the National Planning Policy Framework (2012 NPPF) was published...
Meaning of ‘highway’In the broadest sense, a highway is a way (ie a defined route, such as a road, bridleway or footpath) over which the public have...
Coronavirus (COVID-19): This Practice Note contains guidance on subjects potentially impacted by the government’s response to the coronavirus outbreak...
The Crichel Down Rules (the Rules) require that in certain circumstances, surplus government land that was acquired by, or under a threat of,...
Coronavirus (COVID-19): This Practice Note contains guidance on subjects potentially impacted by the government’s response to the coronavirus...
A declaratory judgment is a judgment identifying the rights, duties or obligations of one or more parties in a dispute. It is legally binding, but...
A breach of a term of a lease where a tenant has covenanted (agreed) to do, or to not do something, such as to pay rent or not to part with possession. If an express right is reserved in the lease, the breach may entitle the landlord to forfeit.
The Electronic Communications Code, inserted into the Communications Act 2003, Schedule 3A, by the Digital Economy Act 2017. A code right is granted in relation to an operator and any land, for the statutory purposes of providing an operator's network/infrastructure system, and for activities set out in the code.
A non-molestation order may be made under Part IV of the Family Law Act 1996 prohibiting a person (the respondent) from molesting a person associated with the respondent or a relevant child. There is no statutory definition of the term molesting although guidance can be elicited from case law.
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