{"id":5552,"date":"2013-03-15T17:48:06","date_gmt":"2013-03-15T17:48:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=5552"},"modified":"2013-03-15T17:48:06","modified_gmt":"2013-03-15T17:48:06","slug":"action-on-one-stop-shop-for-non-planning-consents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=5552","title":{"rendered":"Action on one-stop-shop for non-planning consents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">England\u2019s government has announced how it plans to implement the principle of a one-stop-shop for non-planning consents for major infrastructure.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) consulted on the issues last year and now the department has confirmed it will establish a new Consents Service Unit in the Planning Inspectorate.<\/p>\n<p>The unit, which will be established next month (April), will cover 12 non-planning consents (from bodies like the Environment Agency, English Nature and the Highways Agency) with a strong focus on the pre-application phase.<\/p>\n<p>The Government will also streamline the list on non-planning consents which sit outside the Nationally Significant Infrastructure Project (NSIP) development consent process by removing 19 different consents. This will be achieved by secondary legislation.<\/p>\n<p>In addition Whitehall has agreed to update and streamline the list of prescribed consultees \u2013 also by secondary legislation. The list will be cut by at least a third.<\/p>\n<p>These changes are in addition to five separate certificates and consents which are being removed from the Planning Act 2008 via clauses in the Growth and Infrastructure Bill.<\/p>\n<p>The new unit\u2019s key role will be to \u2018facilitate effective and efficient decision making\u2019, said DCLG.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018It will not act as an advocate for any particular project or body, and the independence and impartiality of the different decision makers will be maintained.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The Planning Inspectorate will publish a prospectus explaining how the unit will operate.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Download \u2018Major infrastructure planning: expanding and improving the \u2018one stop shop\u2019 approach for consents\u2019 at<\/span>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/uploads\/system\/uploads\/attachment_data\/file\/138292\/Major_infrastructure_planning_-_expanding_and_improving_the__one_stop_shop__approach_for_consents_-_Summary_of_responses.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">LINK<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Search Planning Portal<\/span>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.planningportal.gov.uk\/general\/news\/stories\/2013\/mar13\/140313\/14032013_4\" target=\"_blank\">LINK<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>England\u2019s government has announced how it plans to implement the principle of a one-stop-shop for non-planning consents for major infrastructure. The Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) consulted on the issues last year and now the department has confirmed &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=5552\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sector-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5552"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5553,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5552\/revisions\/5553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}