Planning minister Bob Neill has written to all local authority chief planning officers in England flagging up the withdrawal of guidance on local plan monitoring and signalling that the Department forCommunities and Local Government won’t be monitoring the preparation and content of local plans.
Councils will now be expected to notify the Planning Inspectorate three months before the publication of any development plan document. Neill’s letter also clarified various procedural matters following the closure of the Government Offices.
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