Twenty-one new bills have been announced in the Queen’s Speech, on 18 May, including legislation to help simplify planning rules and support the government’s ambition to ‘deliver one million new homes, whilst protecting those areas that we value most including the Green Belt’, with a ‘Neighbourhood Planning and Infrastructure Bill’ that will ‘reform planning and give local communities more power and control to shape their own area so that we build more houses and give everyone who works hard the chance to buy their own home.’
Among the Bill’s main elements include framing Planning Conditions as followings (pp.19-20):
- To ensure that pre-commencement planning conditions are only imposed by local planning authorities where they are absolutely necessary.
- Excessive pre-commencement planning conditions can slow down or stop the construction of homes after they have been given planning permission.
- The new legislation would tackle the overuse, and in some cases, misuse of certain planning conditions, and thereby ensure that development, including new housing, can get underway without unnecessary delay.’
The Planning Portal writes:
The government this week promised a neighbourhood planning and infrastructure bill, one of 21 in the upcoming legislative programme set out in Wednesday’s Queen’s Speech.
This bill will support the government’s ambition to ‘deliver one million new homes, whilst protecting those areas that we value most including the Green Belt’.
Promised measures include moves to strengthen neighbourhood planning and action to tackle the use (and over-use) of planning conditions.
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