Summary
The
‘Planning Bill’ (HCB 11) is a Bill to
streamline and improve the planning regime, introducing a single consent regime
for major infrastructure projects, establishing an independent Infrastructure
Planning Commission, and including further measures to improve the Town and
Country Planning System.
The Bill is designed to implement
proposals in the May 2007 White Paper
‘Planning
for a Sustainable Future’ (Cm. 7120).
Provisions include:
- Establishing an infrastructure planning commission and defining its powers
and functions
- Establishing a single consent regime for nationally
significant infrastructure and a streamlined process for considering
applications
- Creating statutory requirements on content and
consultation on national infrastructure policy statements
- Creating
statutory requirement for developers of infrastructure to consult affected
people and communities before submitting applications
- Implementing
changes to the process for local development plan documents and establishing
arrangements for local authorities to decide appeals on minor planning
applications.
Explanatory Notes to the Bill,
prepared by the Department for Communities and Local Government, are also
available.
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