In Shakespeare’s day ‘presently’ only meant in the present, now. Over a few centuries the procrastinators amongst us have managed to stretch the meaning of the word such that it can also mean in the near future, soonish. Likewise, ‘immediately’ might not mean exactly the same thing to one person as it does to another. Against this background you can see the inspector’s problem with an enforcement notice which required the use of a site in Gloucestershire as a storage yard to cease ‘immediately’ (DCS Number 400-024-830). He declared the notice a nullity and without legal effect.
Monthly Archives: February 2020
News from PlanningResource
- Go-ahead for 717-home Havering scheme with affordable housing level above viable rate February 3, 2020Plans have been approved for up to 717 homes on a former supermarket depot site in east London, in line with a recommendation from planners who advised that the applicant was willing to accept "sub market returns" to deliver a 41 per cent level of affordable housing.
- Judge rejects bid to challenge Wycombe local plan's green belt releases February 3, 2020A judge has rejected a bid by campaigners to bring a legal challenge against the release of two green belt sites for housing in a Buckinghamshire council's local plan on the basis that the document did not use the latest 2016-based household growth projections.
- High Court rules that councils can extend prior approval decision deadlines February 3, 2020A landmark High Court judgment last year which said that councils do not have the power to extend prior approval decision deadlines "should not be followed", a judge reconsidering the issue has ruled as he dismissed plans to convert an office block into 75 homes.
- Planning 'defaulted to anyone who could afford a lawyer' under Cameron February 3, 2020A claim that under former Prime Minister David Cameron's "developer-driven government" planning "defaulted to anyone who could afford a lawyer" features in today's newspaper round-up.
- Tom Copley announced as London's new housing deputy mayor February 2, 2020London mayor Sadiq Khan has announced Tom Copley, chair of the London Assembly's housing committee, as his new deputy mayor for housing and residential development.
- Roll-out of smart motorways 'to be paused over safety concerns' January 31, 2020News that the roll-out of smart motorways is to be 'paused for a safety review' features in today's newspaper round-up.
- Planning White Paper to be published 'in the first half of this year', says Jenrick January 31, 2020The government is looking to publish the long-awaited Planning White Paper 'in the first half of this year', the housing secretary Robert Jenrick has said.
- Jenrick commits to planning fast-track for 'beautiful' schemes and NPPF changes January 31, 2020Housing secretary Robert Jenrick has committed to implementing a "fast track for beauty" in the planning system and said many of the recommendations made by a government-commissioned review on improving design quality can be made "quite quickly" by amending the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF).
- 1,300-home Birmingham city centre mixed use scheme approved January 31, 2020Plans for a 1,300-home 36-storey mixed use scheme in Birmingham city centre have been approved, despite concerns about the potential harm to nearby heritage assets and the provision of affordable housing that is less than a third of local policy requirements.
- Ministers cite housing growth potential in announcing preferred route for Bedford-Cambridge rail link January 31, 2020The government has selected the most expensive of five shortlisted options as its preferred route for the central section of a rail link that it says should help deliver new homes in the Oxford-Cambridge Arc.