Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Radical overhaul of the planning system proposed
The Conservative's Green Paper on the planning system was
launched by David Cameron on Monday.
The Green Paper is highly critical of the current top-down planning system and proposes a radical overhaul, including:
The Green Paper is highly critical of the current top-down planning system and proposes a radical overhaul, including:
- Abolition of regional spatial strategies and housebuilding targets
- A stronger role for Local Plans with restriction on appeal rights and a commitment to "collaborative democracy" in drawing up
plans from the "ground level"; everyone would be asked to participate
and bodies like civic societies would be put centre stage - Removing the final say over Local Plans from Planning Inspectors
- Restricting the grounds of appeal against planning refusals and introducing a new right of appeal for residents again the grant of planning permission which contravenes the Local Plan
- New incentives in which neighbourhoods receive a share of any local tariff raised from development
- Abolition of the Infrastructure Planning Commission and the final say on major new developments to be with the Secretary of State following public inquiries
- Introduction of a "presumption in favour of sustainable development"
- Strategic authorities to prepare "Infrastructure Plans" on issues like transport, minerals and waste and be under a "duty to co-operate" across boundaries
- Removing gardens from the definition of brownfield development
- Readopting the "needs test" so councils can require developers to make the case for out-of-town development
- Limiting retrospective planning consent to rectifying genuine mistakes
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