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2010
September + August + July 5 July, 2010
Regional Strategies Go, but Five Year Housing Numbers Stay
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CLG Secretary of State Eric Pickles is expected to announce tomorrow that the Regional Strategies have been revoked (except for the London Plan). They will no longer be part of the development plan; planning applications will not have to be in line with their housebuilding targets, nor any of their policies. This is a liberating announcement (all references to regional strategies in national policy will be simultaneously wiped out), although Pickles will stress the ongoing importance of development plan documents, such as core strategies, and local authorities having to have their own justifiable 5 year housing supply figures and policies.
Michael Russell, Senior Associate Director of NLP, advises that, 'developers should review their schemes straightaway, particularly those at pre-planning application stage, to check if they are in line with the new, locally-focussed development plan and to get involved with councils at the outset with policy review and revising housing figures'.
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