[Diggers350] The Land: Important Planning Changes Announcement

[Simon Fairlie]

Dear Friends,

Please can you relay this  information through 
your website, newsletter or network.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION FOR READERS OF THE RURAL PLANNING HANDBOOK

Emacs!


The Levelling Up and Regeneration Act became law 
on 26 October. After a period when nothing much 
happened because of Brexit and then Covid, this 
makes significant changes to planning law, 
meaning that some of the material in the Rural 
Planning Handbook is now out of date.

Judging from commentaries upon the Bill as it 
passed,  the main areas of concern for impact 
developers, smallholders and homeless settlers are:

(1) The four year rule disappears and it is now a 
wait of ten years before one becomes immune from 
enforcement, whether the breach is operational development or change of use.
(2) According to Section 104, if we understand it 
correctly, someone subject to an enforcement 
notice cannot appeal against it if they have, 
within the previous  two years, been refused 
planning permission for the same matter  (whether 
or not they went to a planning appeal). The 
government states that the object is to ensure 
"there is only one opportunity to obtain planning 
permission retrospectively after unauthorised development has taken place.”
(3) Planning applications will become mere 
expensive, through  double costs for 
retrospective applications, and fees for statutory consultees.
(4) There will be a new notice called an 
Enforcement Warning Notice, asking a person to 
submit a retrospective planning application

Eventually a new edition of the Handbook will 
have to be produced. In the interim the book will 
be sold with an insert explaining the changes.
  For more information see
<https://bills.parliament.uk/publications/49201/documents/2676>https://bills.parliament.uk/publications/49201/documents/2676 

https://www.local.gov.uk/pas/our-work/levelling-and-regeneration-bill#:~:text=The%20Levelling%20Up%20and%20Regeneration,a%20charge%20on%20development%20for


Simon Fairlie
Monkton Wyld Court
Charmouth
Bridport
Dorset
DT6 6DQ

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Simon Fairlie
Monkton Wyld Court
Charmouth
Bridport
Dorset
DT6 6DQ

01297 561359 If no reply, please send an email 
rather than leaving an answerphone message.

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Monkton Wyld Court, along with two other 
community members  The Land magazine, the Scythe 
Shop, and our micro dairy. New trustees of the 
charity, who were only co-opted onto the 
board  in January 2023, have given us notice to 
quit. We are resisting. To find out more please 
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