With the mounting controversy in the coming months in respect of many planning matters, not least changes to the NPPF, we point to the following links to check out:

Housing Planning and the NPPF

• How many houses per year for Oxfordshire ? Oxford Mail article

  https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/24496018.targets-aim-1-500-extra-homes-year-oxfordshire/?ref=suit

• Housebuilding targets may force councils in England to build on ‘grey belt’ and a potential disaster - Guardian and BBC

  https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/jul/30/housebuilding-targets-could-force-councils-in-england-to-build-on-grey-belt & https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cervr2p4mwdo

• Will increased housing targets involve substantal “new towns” for the South - see the projection map from Sunday Times article on August 24th

• Another NPPF is landing - what does it mean? - Cratus Group

  https://cratus.co.uk/the-government-launches-nppf-review/

• The NPPF is out - quick summary from Landmark Chambers

• https://www.landmarkchambers.co.uk/news-and-cases/the-new-national-planning-policy-framework-is-out

• What did Angela Rayner state and infer from the written statement she presented on July 30th?

  https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-statements/detail/2024-07-30/hcws48

• and the MHLCG letter sent to Local Authority Chief Executives setting out requirements

• The Government Plan to build more homes

  https://www.gov.uk/government/news/our-plan-to-build-more-homes

• More substance than style ? opinion - TLabour’s ambitious plans for housebuilding can only happen if small-scale developers are seen as part of the solution,he Planner

  https://www.theplanner.co.uk/2024/08/01/more-substance-style-new-nppfs-design-outlook

• The Planning Portal from August lst covering many current news topics

  https://www.planningportal.co.uk/services/weekly-planning-news/planning-news-1-august-2024

• David Cameron failed to foist new houses on rural areas. Why does Keir Starmer think he’ll succeed? Guardian

  https://www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/jul/24/rural-development-wont-solve-britains-housing-crisis?

• How best can Labour deliver its planning ambitions?- The Planner

  https://www.theplanner.co.uk/2024/07/31/how-best-can-labour-deliver-its-planning-ambitions

• Labour’s ambitious plans for housebuilding can only happen if small-scale developers are seen as part of the solution,

  https://www.theplanner.co.uk/2024/09/06/will-labours-housing-solution-work?utm_term=&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Adestraps://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jul/18/

• European Court of Human Rights may end up getting in the way of reforms - Guido Fawkes

  https://order-order.com/2024/07/24/echr-could-block-labours-housing-plans/

• The Kings Speech included specific aspects of Planning reforms including a new Planning and Infrastructure Bill, speeding up and streamlining growth, modernising planning committees, unlocking sites with fair compensation, overcoming nutrient neutrality and introducing the concept of national policy statements

  https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/kings-speech-2024-background-briefing-notes

• European Court of Human Rights may end up getting in the way of reforms - Guido Fawkes

  https://order-order.com/2024/07/24/echr-could-block-labours-housing-plans/

• The Kings Speech included specific aspects of Planning reforms including a new Planning and Infrastructure Bill, speeding up and streamlining growth, modernising planning committees, unlocking sites with fair compensation, overcoming nutrient neutrality and introducing the concept of national policy statements

  https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/kings-speech-2024-background-briefing-notes

• West Oxfordshire District Council are losing more appeals - BBC News

  https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cxe2d4p08r3o

• Four approved solar farms approved for East Anglia, across four Districts face a judicial review - The Planner

  https://www.theplanner.co.uk/2024/08/12/councils-warn-miliband-error-solar-farm-consent? utm_term=&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Adestra

• What exactly is the Government going to do with redundant military sites? - Apple News

  https://apple.news/AP54Vt750ShiU49hh8sR6_Q

  Infrastructure - Roads, sewage, water and environmental

• Thames Water and the Reservoir =- VofWH latest reponse

  https://www.whitehorsedc.gov.uk/planning/leaders-statement-south-east-strategic-reservoir-option-sesro/

   

• .theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jul/18/

  Oxfordshire Matters

• Town or Gown?” - the question about the future of Oxford goes on! - Oxford Tiimes latest

  https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/24474024.councillors-fear-university-dominating-map-oxford/

• Oxfordshire council leader doubtful about merged councils concept - BBC News -

  https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crge0n23378o