Agri workers dwellings — new guidance?

Sun Oct 7 01:05:39 BST 2012

Rural readers note the last paragraph of text below:

> He (Mark Southgate of the Planning Inspectorate)also told delegates  
> that tests applied to applications for essential
> agricultural workers' dwellings might reappear following the  
> government
> review of the guidance that previously underlay planning policy  
> guidance
> and statements. The tests were largely swept away by the  
> introduction of
> the National Planning Policy Framework.

This is the first we have heard of this. As Andrew Lainton points out  
on his blog:

"So the #NPPF might be amended to put back the Agricultural Dwellings  
Tests. A classic example of a policy that was solely excluded because  
of an arbitrary 50 page limit.  How many dozens of responses asked to  
keep or amend them to avoid a policy black hole."

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On 5 Oct 2012, at 16:18, Paul Mobbs wrote:

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> Note: the DCLG paper on giving more power to awards costs is online  
> at --
> http://www.parliament.uk/documents/commons%2Dvote%2Doffice/ 
> September_2012/06%2D09%2D12/3.DCLG%2DHousingandGrowth.pdf
>
> The relevant sentence is on page 4, "In addition, we intend to give
> Planning Inspectors more power to initiate an award of costs in  
> planning
> appeal proceedings, where it is clear that an application has not been
> handled as it should have been with due process."
>
> :-(
>
> There is also of course the rather crunchy issue of how you define
> "vexatious" -- as one person's 'vexatious' could easily be another  
> person's
> 'democratic rights'!
>
> Personally, I think this is just a rouse to scare stretched middle  
> class
> objectors with assets to loose from taking part in blocking
> naff/environmentally damaging development.
>
>
> P.
>
>
>
>
> http://www.planningresource.co.uk/news/1153573/vexatious%2Dobjectors 
> %2Dface%2Dcost%2Dawards/
>
> Vexatious objectors could face cost awards
>
> Richard Garlick, Planning Resource, Friday 5th October 2012
>
> Vexatious objectors to planning applications could in future be  
> forced to
> contribute to an applicant's or planning authority's costs, a senior
> Planning Inspectorate official said yesterday.
>
> Communities secretary Eric Pickles announced last month that he  
> intended to
> give planning inspectors more power to initiate an award of costs in
> planning appeal proceedings.
>
> He said that this would happen "where it is clear that an  
> application has
> not been handled as it should have been with due process", prompting
> commentators to observe that the only parties likely to be  
> penalised were
> local planning authorities.
>
> However, responding to questions about the costs imposed by vexatious
> objections at a conference yesterday, PINS casework director Mark  
> Southgate
> pointed out that this could potentially be addressed by the  
> inspectorate's
> promised new power.
>
> Speaking to Planning after his speech, Southgate said that "we will  
> have to
> see whether the power will apply across the board", rather than  
> simply to
> awards of costs against councils.
>
> Southgate was speaking at the British Institute of Agricultural  
> Consultants
> rural planning conference, which took place near Kettering in
> Northamptonshire.
>
> He also told delegates that tests applied to applications for  
> essential
> agricultural workers' dwellings might reappear following the  
> government
> review of the guidance that previously underlay planning policy  
> guidance
> and statements. The tests were largely swept away by the  
> introduction of
> the National Planning Policy Framework.
>
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