<\/u>Government writes:<\/p>\n
Measures in the new Neighbourhood Planning Bill will support more housebuilding and provide more local say over developments the Housing and Planning Minister has announced.<\/p>\n
The Bill will speed up and strengthen the popular neighbourhood planning process by simplifying how plans can be revised as local circumstances change and ensure that plans come into force sooner once approved by local people.<\/p>\n
Housing and Planning Minister Gavin Barwell said:\u00a0 \u2018The Prime Minister has been absolutely clear that we need to build more homes and this Bill is the first of a number of measures to deliver on that.\u00a0 We have already built more than 900,000 homes since 2010 and now this Bill will help speed up delivery of the further new homes our country needs and ensure our foot is still firmly on the pedal.\u00a0 We\u2019re also going further than ever before to speed up neighbourhood planning which puts power in the hands of local people to decide where development gets built.\u00a0 There will also be a simplifying of the compulsory purchase order process to make it clearer, fairer and faster. Compulsory purchase is always used as a last resort but can be essential in delivering big and complex schemes.\u00a0 The process can be unnecessarily uncertain and complex. Measures in the Bill will clarify the process which is currently based on a patchwork of statute and case law and make the system fairer for all parties.\u2019<\/p>\n
\u2018Further Bill measures will ensure that planning conditions which require developers to take action before work starts are only used where strictly necessary, but in a way that ensures important heritage and environmental safeguards remain in place, so that once a developer has planning permission they can get on and start building as soon as possible.\u2019<\/p>\n
Read\u00a0the press release<\/a>, access the House of Commons Research Briefing<\/a>\u00a0Neighbourhood Planning and find out more<\/a> about\u00a0the text of Bill and stages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The new Neighbourhood Planning Bill has been brought forward, and aims to speed up housebuilding delivery, introduce new simplified compulsory purchase powers and strengthen and clarify conditions relating to protecting heritage assets in planning applications. Government writes: Measures in the … Continue reading