31st August 202131st August 2021Opinion Are HMO’s now supported within the National Framework? Back in 2012 the NPPF included an important paragraph. To deliver a wide choice of high quality homes, widen opportunities for homeownership […] Read more
24th June 2021Opinion Decision Making Behaviour It is fair to say that planning authorities in England have their favourite forms of development and in equal measure those developments […] Read more
16th June 2021News, Opinion Class MA – Thoughts on the Starting Line! On the 1st August 2021 the starting gun is fired and Class MA becomes available to applicants as an application type. Class […] Read more
11th June 202111th June 2021Latest News Natural England approach to nitrates upheld The case of THE QUEEN (on the application of RONALD WYATT, CHAIRPERSON OF BROOK AVENUE RESIDENTS AGAINST DEVELOPMENT (BARAD), ACTING IN A […] Read more
10th June 202110th June 2021News, Opinion Milton Keynes cannot keep up….apparently So the story goes like this. Four applications for prior approval were submitted on the same day on the same site and […] Read more
6th May 20216th May 2021News Streetscene is not the test – Part 20 APPEAL ALLOWED TPX are pleased to announce that the Inspectorate had today allowed our appeal and granted prior approval under Part 20 of the […] Read more
7th April 202111th June 2021Latest News, News, Opinion The National Standards and Permitted Development Its the 7th April and the National Standards and Prior Approval applications are now permanently conjoined. From yesterday the 6th of April […] Read more
15th March 202116th February 2021Opinion Shell Applications The term ‘Shell Application’ was given to me by Chris Dale, the then Head of Development Management at Woking Borough Council and […] Read more
10th March 202110th March 2021News Why 2021 is a landmark year for the NPPF Para 11d of the NPPF describes the ’tilted balance’ test. The tilted balance was put into the NPPF in order to address […] Read more