We don’t often quote from commercial blogs – sometimes they aren’t very reliable, or put forward a view slanted towards whatever they are trying to sell you.
But a blog from the Benfield ATT group – they produce timber frame stuff – is worth a look; they write about planning issues in quite a chatty way. Here’s an example:
NEIGHBOURHOOD PLANNING PERMITS
By 2022 the Council of Mortgage Lenders expects more than half of local areas, or wards, to have produced a ?neighbourhood plan? ? each one costing from ?17k to ?63k.
They further estimate that over the next ten years, each communities rights to hold referendums to consider challenges to these plans and neighbourhood building rights will cost a further ?2.7 million.
It is not yet fully clear how such ?discussions? are to be established and operated. But if you are an Architect, House Builder, Developer, or even a Home Extender, expect to have to provide far more information to whoever is going to run these Compulsory Discussions on behalf of each neighbourhood.
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Written or Verbal Advocacy
Whether or not this information will have to be in writing, or given orally, it is a sure bet anyone wanting to get planning permission for anything that might not exactly ?chine? with the wishes of the neighbourhood ?committee?, is going to need the services of one ? or more ? good advocates.
RECLAIMING YOUR LAND RIGHTS
Can YOU ?Reclaim? Any Land?
WOW ? and WOW again!!!!
If anything is likely to put a rocket up your Local Council?s backside this is it!
Grant Shapps, the Coalition Government?s Minister for Housing, has just given the public at large new rights to ?Reclaim and (Re)Develop? any publicly owned buildings & land that they can show has lain unused for any significant period of time.
Giving direct support and meaning to the Localism Bill, this new ?Community Right to Reclaim Land? gives you and your neighbours the opportunity to (re)develop both land and buildings that have fallen into disuse, become derelict, and/or present an eyesore…..