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<font size=4>Dear Friends,<br><br>
Please can you relay this information through your website,
newsletter or network.<br><br>
IMPORTANT INFORMATION FOR READERS OF THE RURAL PLANNING HANDBOOK<br><br>
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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,</font> meaning that some of
the material in the Rural Planning Handbook is now out of date. <br><br>
<font size=4>Judging from commentaries upon the Bill as it passed,
the main areas of concern for</font> impact developers, smallholders and
homeless settlers are:<br><br>
<font size=4>(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.<br>
(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.” <br>
(3) Planning applications will become mere expensive, through
double costs for retrospective applications, and fees for statutory
consultees. <br>
(4) There will be a new notice called an Enforcement Warning Notice,
asking a person to submit a retrospective planning application <br><br>
</font>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.<br>
For more information see <br>
<a href="https://bills.parliament.uk/publications/49201/documents/2676">
https://bills.parliament.uk/publications/49201/documents/2676</a> <br>
<a href="https://www.local.gov.uk/pas/our-work/levelling-and-regeneration-bill#:~:text=The%20Levelling%20Up%20and%20Regeneration,a%20charge%20on%20development%20for" eudora="autourl">
https://www.local.gov.uk/pas/our-work/levelling-and-regeneration-bill#:~:text=The%20Levelling%20Up%20and%20Regeneration,a%20charge%20on%20development%20for<br>
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</a>Simon Fairlie<br>
Monkton Wyld Court<br>
Charmouth<br>
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