{"id":9099,"date":"2014-12-05T17:34:48","date_gmt":"2014-12-05T17:34:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=9099"},"modified":"2014-12-05T18:05:10","modified_gmt":"2014-12-05T18:05:10","slug":"budget-news-update-autumn-statement-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=9099","title":{"rendered":"Budget news update &#8211; Autumn Statement 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Changes to section 106 negotiations, performance thresholds for major applications and new proposals for compulsory purchase have been put forward as part of Chancellor George Osborne&#8217;s Autumn Statement 2014.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Section 1.141 of the HM Government budget report states<\/span>:<br \/>\nThe government has taken significant steps to speed up planning decisions. Building on this progress, the government will take further action to speed up the end-to-end planning process for major and minor applications, and to support SMEs, including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>ensuring that the principle of development need only be established once, to give greater certainty and allow locally-supported development to proceed more quickly<\/li>\n<li>taking steps to speed up section 106 negotiations, including revised guidance, consulting on a faster process for reaching agreement, considering how timescales for agreement could be introduced, and improving transparency on the use of section 106 funds<\/li>\n<li>keeping the speed of decisions on major applications under review, with the minimum performance threshold increasing to 50% of major decisions on time as performance continues to improve<\/li>\n<li>publishing new data on local authorities\u2019 performance in meeting their statutory duty to process smaller planning applications within 8 weeks<\/li>\n<li>working with industry and local authorities to test whether more can be done to support the approval of small sites in the planning system<\/li>\n<li>publishing proposals for consultation at Budget 2015 on making the Compulsory Purchase Regime clearer, faster and fairer, with the aim of bringing forward more brownfield land for development<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/uploads\/system\/uploads\/attachment_data\/file\/382327\/44695_Accessible.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Download the full budget report\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/speeches\/chancellor-george-osbornes-autumn-statement-2014-speech\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>Autumn Statement<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?s=budget\" target=\"_blank\">IHBC newsblogs on budget reforms<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Changes to section 106 negotiations, performance thresholds for major applications and new proposals for compulsory purchase have been put forward as part of Chancellor George Osborne&#8217;s Autumn Statement 2014. Section 1.141 of the HM Government budget report states: The government &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=9099\">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-9099","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\/9099","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=9099"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9113,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9099\/revisions\/9113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}