The Planning Officers Society has published an advice note for local planning authorities on how to respond to the enactment of the Localism Act and publication of the finalised National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF).
The advice note focuses on five matters:
· the new flexibility in relation to the local plan
· some implications of the duty to cooperate
· how local planning authorities can update or amend their local plan to make it compliant with the NPPF
· retaining national or regional policy which would otherwise be lost
· development management decision-making and the NPPF.
Access the advice note at: LINK
