Planning admin has just gone live on the Red Tape Challenge website, England’s public discourse website ‘designed to promote open discussion of how the aims of existing regulation can be fulfilled in the least burdensome way possible’, with views sought over the next five weeks.
Regulations are listed under four themes:
Planning Procedure; Planning Infrastructure and Major Projects; Planning Authorities, & Local Planning, with 183 regulations listed in total.
The Challenge writes:
This Red Tape Challenge focuses on the planning system looking at how we could make the underpinning administrative process of the system more efficient and accessible. It is not looking at planning policy itself. The Government is committed to ensuring that countryside and environmental protections continue to be safeguarded, and to decentralising power over planning to local councils, neighbourhoods and local residents.
We have already taken a series of steps to cut unnecessary red tape, such as the streamlined National Planning Policy Framework reducing 1,000 pages of planning policy to less than 50, revoking Regional Strategies (subject to the outcome of the ongoing environmental assessment process) and increasing permitted development rights to make it easier to get empty and under-used buildings back into public use.
Alongside the current review of planning practice guidance, the Red Tape Challenge on Planning Administration will give everyone the opportunity to highlight areas where the system can be made simpler, clearer and easier for people to use and also let us know where regulation is essential.
We would like to hear your views on the planning administration regulations over the next five weeks. To contribute to this review click on the sub-categories below or submit a private contribution to our inbox at: redtapechallenge@cabinet-office.gsi.gov.uk
This site is designed to promote open discussion of ways in which the aims of existing regulation can be fulfilled in the least burdensome way possible. The presence of a particular regulation or law on this website should not be read as implying any intention on the part of the Government to remove that regulation or law from the statute book. The purpose of this exercise is to open government up to the public.’
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