Sounds like the new NPPF rules would substantially mitigate/remove most of these blockers. Not a panacea but if it can make it through consultation lots of these opportunities to nitpick and use various policies as cover to block.
Sounds like it would be quite the bonfire of local rules, which I would approve.
Having been through the planning documents and the policies, do you have a read on how many of them would be overrode by parts of the NPPF?
The design stuff in the NPPF seems like it would block the council relying on that to stop it, same with "very little weight" being applied to the contradictory local policies. Not saying this is a done deal, but it feels like this is maybe a last hurrah of the old planning system.
It would be great to see some of these developers coming and building in the more pro-growth corners of the country, rather than fighting to invest in places that clearly don't want investment.
A comedy of contradictions. If I don’t laugh, I would cry.. As an aspiring self builder, my shock is still that developers actually take these costs on with all the uncertainty of outcome. No wonder SME developers are almost not existent now. The ‘presumption in favour of sustainable development’ needs A LOT more teeth to override all but a few principal policies. Great read
🎯 And the same dynamics are at play over and over again with every planning application across the country.
it's just appalling
we are stuck in a dystopian comedy of errors
UK planning system is so broken and no politicians have got hold of it and fixed it. Ruining the growth and economy of our fine country
Sounds like the new NPPF rules would substantially mitigate/remove most of these blockers. Not a panacea but if it can make it through consultation lots of these opportunities to nitpick and use various policies as cover to block.
Sounds like it would be quite the bonfire of local rules, which I would approve.
Sam has written a great piece on that here: https://open.substack.com/pub/samdumitriu/p/labour-are-finally-taking-the-housing?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web
Having been through the planning documents and the policies, do you have a read on how many of them would be overrode by parts of the NPPF?
The design stuff in the NPPF seems like it would block the council relying on that to stop it, same with "very little weight" being applied to the contradictory local policies. Not saying this is a done deal, but it feels like this is maybe a last hurrah of the old planning system.
Great, forensic post. We need a purge of planners and a bonfire of regulations.
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It would be great to see some of these developers coming and building in the more pro-growth corners of the country, rather than fighting to invest in places that clearly don't want investment.
Nothing short of a British Milei could ever sort out this labyrinthine scandal.
Afuera!
Excellent piece.
A comedy of contradictions. If I don’t laugh, I would cry.. As an aspiring self builder, my shock is still that developers actually take these costs on with all the uncertainty of outcome. No wonder SME developers are almost not existent now. The ‘presumption in favour of sustainable development’ needs A LOT more teeth to override all but a few principal policies. Great read