Tag Archives: Greg Clark

Everyone loves a planner

By , Thursday, 22 September 2011, 9 Comments

Amidst the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) doom and gloom I bring you good news – everyone loves planners. The British Property Federation (BPF) hosted an event this morning on the NPPF which featured speakers including planning minister Greg Clark, National Trust chief Dame Fiona Reynolds, the Campaign to Protect Rural England’s Shaun Spiers and the BPF’s own Liz Peace. It was a veritable who’s who of the NPPF debate. If an asteroid had struck the building, the Daily Telegraph’s ‘Hand’s off Our Land’ campaign would have been sunk. It simply doesn’t bear thinking about.

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Presumption to apply in ministers’ backyards?

By , Monday, 12 September 2011, 8 Comments

Pickles: no adopted local plan in place in constituency

There has been a lot of fuss in this weekend’s papers about how the senior ministers behind the coalition’s controversial planning reforms have previously attempted to block developments in their own areas. Readers that worked in planning at the time of the former Tory government may be forgiven for feeling a sense of déjà vu. In the late 1980s, former environment secretary Nicholas Ridley, credited with popularising the term “nimby” – and who wanted to build new towns in southern England to tackle housing shortages – objected to a housing development near the rectory he owned in the Cotswolds. Read more »

Live Blog: National Planning Policy Framework

By , Monday, 25 July 2011, 29 Comments

The new draft National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) was published this morning, Planning has been following events and reaction throughout the day…

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South West divided on localism

By , Thursday, 2 June 2011, 8 Comments

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Temple Quay, Bristol: Will localism keep development on track?

As the House of Lords gets ready to sink its teeth into the Localism Bill next week, expert opinion in the West of England remains divided over whether the legislation will boost or stunt growth and development. Read more »

Cash for permissions: the Government’s position in detail

By , Monday, 23 May 2011, 7 Comments

There’s been a huge response (31 comments at the time of writing) to Michael Donnelly’s blog inviting opinions on the Government’s plans to make certain financial benefits that a council would gain from granting a planning consent a material consideration in determining the application in question. Read more »

Clark’s rallying cry to planners

By , Wednesday, 1 December 2010, 33 Comments

Decentralisation minister Greg Clark made an interesting speech at a TCPA event yesterday in which he described planners as a “lightning rod for people’s sense of frustration” and talked of restoring the “respect and pride to town planning”. It’s an interesting (if slightly too long) speech and one that deserves publishing in full…

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Planning ministers: Question Time

By , Thursday, 9 September 2010, 8 Comments

Parliament has come back and at last three key men involved in the planning system and its reforms will have to answer to their peers. Read more »

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