Senior Planner at @Lichfieldsuk - Commenting mainly on housing need, supply and planning appeals.
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Quoted here for Planning Magazine discussing the first round of Annual Position Statements.
"Simply there is no place to hide" - Maybe a tad sinister on reflection.
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Why the failure of two out of three councils to fix their housing land supply may deter others | Planning Resource planningresource.co.uk/artic…
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Buffer the land supply slayer
@HarryJBennett's blog looks at how the changes proposed to the 5YHLS policy test have been translated in to draft amends to the NPPF that are planned to become policy in ‘Spring 2023.’
See full blog here: lichfields.uk/blog/2023/janu…
Some thoughts on the proposed 5YHLS and local plan changes...
Probably more plans, fewer homes.
Reforms to Five-Year Housing Land Supply: A Recipe for Fewer Homes?
Trying to read between the lines, @HarryJBennett has a number of questions for Government and wider observations.
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Great summary of the changes announced over the past few days.
Housing targets? still non-mandatory, but devil in the detail.
Justified test? gone.
5YHLS? watered down (but need to consider fully how this might work in practice).
Fresh #planoraks:
Notes on reform: the Government gives up.
Turn the lights off on your way out, friends.
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The Secretary of State has published a Written Ministerial Statement that updates on the direction of travel for housing need/requirement, local plans, neighbourhood plans, five year housing land supply and the 20% buffer, second homes - and fees
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DLUHC head of design& planning reform quoted in LGC article (£)
Funding for resourcing planning departments initially about innovative ways of recruiting, rather than funding planning departments
Consultation on increasing fees still on the way, hopefully
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Today, the Supreme Court considered the effect of development under successive permissions in Hillside Parks Ltd v Snowdonia National Park Authority. The case raises issues of importance in planning law. Robin Green was junior counsel for the Appellant.
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Good night sweet prince: new @lichfields blog post on the (likely) death standard method... and where next...
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New blog looking at the proposed changes to 5YHLS announced alongside the new bill. Some big changes on the way with a renewed focus on updating plans to remedy supply issues.
Five year land supply: Not dead after all
Amendment to the 5YHLS requirement has been suggested in the Government’s ‘Policy Paper’ that sits alongside the ‘Levelling up and Regeneration’ bill.
See @HarryJBennett's full blog: lichfields.uk/blog/2022/may/…
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Five year land supply: Not dead after all
Amendment to the 5YHLS requirement has been suggested in the Government’s ‘Policy Paper’ that sits alongside the ‘Levelling up and Regeneration’ bill.
See @HarryJBennett's full blog: lichfields.uk/blog/2022/may/…
Another @LichfieldsUK blog out - this time looking at the economic cost of local plan delay (which is unsurprising large). Across just 8 LPAs, around 70k homes are in system held up.
Counting the cost of delay: The economic impact of Local Plan delay to housing delivery
Rachel Clements, Harry Bennett & Isla Bowman explore the social and economic impacts of the recent slew of local plan delays.
See full blog: lichfields.uk/blog/2022/apri…
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Counting the cost of delay: The economic impact of Local Plan delay to housing delivery
Rachel Clements, Harry Bennett & Isla Bowman explore the social and economic impacts of the recent slew of local plan delays.
See full blog: lichfields.uk/blog/2022/apri…
New little blog following our work on a 5YHLS appeal in Ashford BC. Looks at the nutrient neutrality issues in the context of housing supply. @LichfieldsUK
Nutrient Neutrality – A housing supply headache
Nutrient neutrality is becoming an ever-growing delivery problem nationwide. @HarryJBennett's blog explores what it means for 5YHLS in practice?
See full blog: lichfields.uk/blog/2022/apri…
This extract from the Arnos Grove Station appeal (ref. 3276466) really shows us how silly some London Council's decision are in relation to loss of car parking in London (both planning and non planning).
The 'reverse Sedgefield' sounds like a pretty awful dance move.
The (niche) issue of oversupply rumbles on.
Great to see a lot of @LichfieldsUK's Blogs referenced in this comprehensive research paper by the House of Commons Library.
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lichfields.uk/blog/ - Always worth a subscription.
Quoted here on the recent Tweks judgment regarding oversupply. Blog with more thoughts on the issue here: lichfields.uk/blog/2021/octo…
Council's may be emboldened to 'count' oversupply in the calculation, but in reality I doubt this will work out well.
Our top story this week: How a court ruling has liberated #councils to factor previous over-delivery into their #housing land supply calculations: planningresource.co.uk/artic…
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Our top story this week: How a court ruling has liberated #councils to factor previous over-delivery into their #housing land supply calculations: planningresource.co.uk/artic…
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Our top story this week: The implications of the softening of this year's #housing delivery test planningresource.co.uk/artic…
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New @LichfieldsUK blog on Oversupply and the implications of the Tewksbury judgment.
A few LPAs had tried to use oversupply to reduce 5YHLS requirement. This case concludes its planning judgement on whether and how to account for it. Blog looks at some of the relevant factors.
Oversupply: it’s all about the planning judgement in each case.
@HarryJBennett considers the implications of the Tewksbury judgment in calculating 5YHLS and the weight attached to any past oversupply.
See full blog: lichfields.uk/blog/2021/octo…
