Consultation outcome

Technical consultation on planning

• From: Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government (2018 to 2021)
• Published: 31 July 2014
• Last updated: 13 May 2016 — See all updates

Applies to England

This consultation has concluded

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Section 1: Neighbourhood planning: government response to consultation (31 December 2014)

Ref: ISBN 978-1-4098-4416-7

PDF, 417 KB, 21 pages

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Section 2: Reducing planning regulations to support housing, high streets and growth: government response to consultation (13 May 2016)

Ref: ISBN 978-1-4098-4788-5

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Section 3: Deemed discharge of planning conditions: government response to consultation (4 November 2014)

Ref: ISBN 978-1-4098-4366-5

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Section 3: Improving the use of planning conditions: government response to consultation (5 March 2015)

Ref: ISBN 978-1-4098-4523-2

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Section 4: Planning application process improvements: government response to consultation (23 January 2015)

Ref: ISBN 978-1-4098-4444-0

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Section 5: Environmental impact assessment thresholds: government response to consultation (6 January 2015)

Ref: ISBN 978-1-4098-4431-0

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Section 6: Making changes to Development Consent Orders: government response to consultation (4 November 2014)

Ref: ISBN 978-1-4098-4365-8

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Section 6: Streamlining the consenting process for nationally significant infrastructure planning: government response to consultation (5 March 2015)

Ref: ISBN 978-1-4098-4432-7

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Detail of outcome

The government’s response to the technical consultation on planning has been published in separate response documents.

Section 1: Neighbourhood planning

Section 2: Reducing planning regulations to support housing, high streets and growth

Section 3: Deemed discharge of planning conditions and improving the use of planning conditions

Section 4: Planning application process improvements

Section 5: Environmental impact assessment thresholds

Section 6: Streamlining the consenting process for nationally significant infrastructure planning and making changes to Development Consent orders

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Original consultation

Summary

Consultation on a range of proposals to streamline the planning system building upon improvements already made.

This consultation ran from
31 July 2014 to 11:59pm on 28 September 2014

Consultation description

This consultation puts forward a range of proposals to further improve the planning system and build upon the improvements we have already made.

We are seeking views on proposals which will:

• make it even easier for residents and business to come together to produce a neighbourhood plan, drawing on the experience gained from over 900 neighbourhood areas which have already been designated by local authorities

• expand permitted development rights, further reducing red tape, supporting housing and growth; these proposals will help ensure the planning system is proportionate and full planning permission is only required where this is genuinely justified

• improve the use of planning conditions and enable development to start more quickly on site after planning permission is granted

• improve engagement with statutory consultees so they are consulted in a proportionate way on those developments where their input is most valuable

• remove unnecessary bureaucracy and reduce the cost and time taken to get planning permission, by raising the environmental impact assessment screening thresholds for industrial estate and urban development projects which are located outside of defined sensitive areas

• expand the number of non-planning consents which can be included within a development consent order

Documents

Technical consultation on planning

Ref: ISBN 9781409842705

PDF, 475 KB, 98 pages

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Published 31 July 2014
Last updated 13 May 2016 + show all updates

1. 13 May 2016

   Added government's response to reducing planning regulations to support housing, high streets and growth.

2. 5 March 2015

   Added the documents 'Streamlining the consenting process for nationally significant infrastructure planning: the government’s response to the Summer 2014 Technical Consultation' and 'Consultation on improving the use of planning conditions: government response'

3. 23 January 2015

   Added government response to the consultation on planning application process improvements.

4. 6 January 2015

   Added the government’s response to the consultation on proposals to raise the environmental impact assessment screening thresholds.

5. 31 December 2014

   Added government’s response to reforms to neighbourhood planning.

6. 4 November 2014

   Added government response to changes to deemed discharge of planning conditions and changes to Development Consent Orders.

7. 26 September 2014

   Due to technical issues, for a brief period on the morning of Friday 26 September, the link to Survey Monkey wrongly indicated that the consultation had closed. This has now been resolved, but we are extending the consultation until 00:01 on Monday, 29 September. We apologise for any inconvenience caused.

8. 31 July 2014

   First published.