The Welsh Government has issued its draft Planning Bill for consultation which will close on 26 February 2014.
The draft Bill and supporting consultation paper, ‘Positive Planning: proposals to reform of the planning system in Wales’, outline a series of proposals which will improve the planning system to help deliver the homes, jobs and infrastructure that current and future generations need. The proposals include:
· The introduction of a national development plan
· A new tier of regional plan to address issues of more than local importance such as housing land supply
· A new tier of applications, identified as being of national significance, which the Welsh Ministers would determine
· The introduction of a Planning Advisory and Improvement Service to support skills and culture change.
· A series of improvements to the development management and Local Development Plan system.
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