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Planning permissions from Councils drop

15/1/2021

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December 2020 statistics from the Government show that the percentage of applications granted permission by local planning authorities has dropped. If you have recently been refused planning permission then you have a right of appeal, and our book can help you. The appeal goes to the Government and is an independent review of the refusal. There is a deadline for lodging the appeal, so don't delay in acting.
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Extra storeys need fire protection approval

31/12/2020

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Permitted development rights were relaxed earlier in 2020 to allow extensions upwards to existing blocks of flats to provide additional flats. The Government has recently announced a change to the regulations that require fire safety for external wall construction to be an additional matter that must be submitted for prior approval.
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Appeal finds a pub must be kept

23/12/2020

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'Assets of Community Value' can significantly affect what you can do with your land, as this long-running saga shows in the Forest of Dean. An appeal was dismissed to extend a pub shut for many years on the basis of loss of the pub. =
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Change in housing numbers

22/12/2020

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Earlier this year the Government introduced new housing targets for local authorities, with numbers coming from a new algorithm. That saw greater increase in rural areas, prompting a backlash by many. This 'mutant algorithm', as it was dubbed, has now been changed to increase housebuilding in urban areas: an uplift of 35% will instead be applied to 20 cities and urban centres.
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Public want more participation in planning

17/12/2020

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A study by the Royal Town Planning Institute has found that more than half of the public agreed changes to local places, spaces and services will need to happen to adapt to life post pandemic – and that they want to be involved in these decisions. The need for more public spaces and green areas was particularly strongly noted.
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Shops at risk from more changes to permitted development?

15/12/2020

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The Government has announced consultation on further proposed changes to permitted development rights. There have been many changes over the summer to allow new uses and new development without the need to apply for planning permission. The latest changes would allow more commercial properties, including shops, to change to residential use. As ever, there are a lot of controls and caveats, but this could be another significant change in the planning system.
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Planning applications up again

1/12/2020

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Latest statistics show that the number of planning applications submitted to local planning authorities across the country continue to rise. They dropped at the beginning of the year with the start of the pandemic, but throughout the middle and end of 2020 numbers have been high.

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HMOs and planning

16/11/2020

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A House in Multiple Occupation (HMO) is where a single family house is used for more than one household. Up to a certain number that may still fall within the same use class as a dwellinghouse, but over three means that a change of use may occur. This can prove controversial with local residents, as this news article shows.
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World Town Planning Day - on 6Music

12/11/2020

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It was World Town Planning Day on 8 November, and it made a special playlist on BBC 6Music. Catch up with a town planning themed playlist on the BBC Sounds page!
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New housing can be controversial

9/11/2020

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As the Government seeks to boost the building of new housing across the country, they are finding it runs into opposition - including from their own Ministers. The Home Secretary, Priti Patel, has become the latest Minister to object to a planning application for housing in her constituency, as this report explains.
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