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Updated 19-Mar-08

LGBC issues Notes on current Green Belt issues, on linked pages as below, with a summary of headings.

March 2008.   Natural England and Green Belt    Delegation of Regional Planning Powers to Regional Development Authorities     Planning Decisions

Tailpiece: Keeping Planning Staff Fit for Purpose (?).

 

November 2007     Is Green Belt policy tired? (Nature England proposals)             Minute Secretary needed.             Gift from the Croydon Society             Planning for Travelling Showpeople.           DCLG reply to Laurie Holt.               Planning Decisions.                             . 

 

June 2007.      The Government Response to the Barker Report

May 2007.      The New planning system             the Barker Report         Planning decisions              John Ward’s prayer

January 2007.  The Barker Report on Land-Use Planning,    Good Practice Guide on Planning for Tourism,     PPS3 Housing,     Not Fit For Purpose,    Plain English Guides to LDDs,             Planning Decisions,     No planning permission for field strip development,    Tailpiece

July 2006.  Adam Smith Institute report on land economy.   Town & Country Planning (Green Belt) Direction 2005.              Special Protection Areas (SPAs) under         European Community Legislation.    Parliamentary debate on field strip sales.  Planning decisions.   Nervy time for planning inspectors.

June 2006.     The Adam Smith Institute Report on Land Economy.       Planning Decisions

April 2006.       Scare headlines about changes in Green Belt policy,     Planning for gypsy and travellers caravan sites.   Sale of field strips: government advice.   Protected areas of search in Leeds.   Planning decisions.  Two pluses and a minus.

Jan 2006.    Consultation Paper on new PPS3: Housing.        Consultation Paper on the Government’s proposals for Additional Powers and Responsibilities for the Greater London Authority and the Mayor of London.           Consultation Paper on new PPS25, Development and Flood Risk .         Planning Inspectorate Guidelines: A guide to the Process of Assessing the Soundness of Statements of Community Involvement.   A. Development Plans Examination - A guide to the Processes of Assessing the Soundness of Statements of Community Involvement.     B. Development Plans Examination - A guide to the process of assessing the soundness of development plan documents.        Greening the Green Belt                 Legal Aid for Travellers       Other Planning Applications

 

Sept 2005.    Green Belt Areas and other recent Ministerial and non-government statements.    New draft Town and Country Planning (Green Belt) Direction 2005

East of England Plan.   Planning Decisions

June 2005.   Soundness, Sustainability and Sanity.  RTPI finally admits its opposition to green belt.  Gordon Brown pledges protection for green belts.  Planning decisions.  Douglas Brown

February 2005.    AGM.    Regional assemblies and East of England Plan.    Review of Green Belt policy in Scotland.   Planning for Gypsy and Traveller site.    Recent planning decisions affecting gypsies.   Other planning decisions.  Green Belt in Mill Hill, north London.

August 2004      No relaxation of GB policy.    Revision of PPGs to become PPSs      Compensation for expenses incurred as a result of maladministration.     Building on GB land may be all right if you build enough.        development of Field Strips; Gov’t advice to Planning Officers.          Potential remedies and strategies.                  Home Office Centre for asylum seekers rejected on GB grounds.                 Overhaul of GB in Scotland.             More on gypsy sites.                          Other mysterious GB decisions.

May 2004          Government intentions for the Green Belt,                      areas of GB changes since 1997,                       Urban fringe and the Green Belt,                   Sale of field strips,                         Planning decisions,                             Tailpiece on private airfields

February 2004– Comments made by LGBC on several consultation documents, namely:

a)                   Draft consultation paper on PPS 11, Regional Planning;

b)                   Draft PPS 12, Local Development; Frameworks;

c)                   Consultation draft on the Process of Preparing Local Development Frameworks

d)                   Local Development Frameworks: Guide to Procedures and Code of Practice;

e)                   Consultation Paper on changes to PPG3: Supporting the Delivery of New Housing;

f)                     Consultation Paper on Changes to PPG'3: Influencing: the Size, Type, and Affordability of Housing;

g)                   Draft Consultation Paper on PPS 7: Sustainable Development in Rural Areas ;

h)                   Draft PPG22: Renewable Energy.

Dec 2003   - re-scheduled AGM 17 Dec 2003,                   notes on 14 recently issued consultation papers

Oct 2003 - Mary Holt, Sale of Field Strips,               PPG ÷ 2 = PPS+ PPG,                   Draft PPS7: Sustainable Development in Rural,                      Revision of PPG3 – Housing,                         DEFRA consultation paper ‘Proposed Amendments to Legislation when Roads Used As Public Paths are reclassified as Restricted Byways’,                            Other Consultation Papers,                             Planning Decisions                        Gypsies,                            Other Planning Decisions,

March 2003 - Sale of Green Belt Fields in Strips,                     Affordable Housing ‘within or adjoining’ green belt villages,                                     Is Green Belt an Environmental Asset ?,                          Select Committee on DEFRA,                           Planning Decisions

Nov 2002 - Beryl Webb,                      Public Service agreements,                           Sustainable communities - delivering through planning,                             Review of the planning enforcement system in England,                     Local Gov't Ombudsman's digest of cases in 2001,                                      Strategic environmental assessment directive (2001/42/BC) draft guidance,                                     Consultation paper on legislative proposals for integration of the habitats directive provisions on conservation of European protected species into the land use planning regime (issued by DEFRA),                            planning decisions

Sept 2002 - RTPI paper 'Modernising Green Belts,                                 LIFE (London International Freight Exchange) and London City Racecourse

July 2002 - Select Committee on DEFRA. Report of DLTR Select Committee on the Planning Green Papers.                           Gypsy appeal dismissed

June 2002 - extra - LGBC comments letter to Select Committee on DEFRA

June 2002 - Government consultation paper on planning - RTPI & TCPA responses + LGBC comments on them:                              Environmental Planning - 23rd report of the Royal Commission on environmental pollution:                                     Select Committee inquiry into DEFRA;                           Right to Roam provisions of the Countryside & Rights of Way Act 2000.

March 2002 - LGBC follow-up letter to DLTR re Government consultation papers as set out in the March 2002 notes

March 2002 - LGBC responses to the Government consultation papers as set out in the January 2002 notes

January 2002 - Government consultation papers on Planning, Major infrastructure Projects, Compulsory Purchase and compensation, and Reforming planning obligations

November 2001 - Major infrastructure proposals for schemes of national importance, Thames region - State of the Environment report - first update 2001, Telecommunications - new PPG8, RPTI attitude to Green Belts, Planning decisions (not included since they are aready reported elsewhere on this website - click here

July 2001 - New shape of Whitehall, Towards the London Plan, Amendment to PPG7 - the countryside, economic quality & economic and social development, 1938 Green Belt Act v 1985 Housing Act, Gypsy sites and the Human Rights legislation, Tribute to LGBC

May 2001 - PPG17 (Sports, open space & recreation) - consultation paper on revisions, EEDA v EERA, RPG9 - Regional Planning Guidance for the South-East, Green Belt adjournment debate 4.4.2001, Park and Ride schemes may now be acceptable in Green Belt, 1938 Green Belt Act v 1985 Housing Act, Planning decisions

February 2001 - RTPI and Green Belts, Green Wedges - DETR paper, Mobile phone masts, Welsh Green Belts, Engineering - definition, PPG2 1999 version?, Planning decisions

January 2001 - 1938 Act land, Regional Planning Guidance for the South East (RPG9), Hertsmere - accidental change to Green Belt boundary, Rural White Paper, Appeal decisions

October 2000 - Mayor of London's planning powers, Regional Planning Guidance PPG11, Royal Town Planning Institute and the Green Belt, Green Belt (London & Home Counties) Act 1938 and the Right To Buy, Green Belt and Human Rights, Farm diversification

July 2000 - Stoning the Crows - update on the Crow report on SE England, Airport hangars in the green belt, Another 1938 Act decision, Visual impact - compared to what?,

May 2000 - Metropolitan Green Belt - location and size in each boroufgh or District Council area, Base date for Coucnil's Development Plans, London Government re-organisation, PPG3 and urban extensions, Best value indicators for planning, Former school site suitable for redevelopment?, Sustainable development

April 2000 - Regional planning guidance, PPG3, Divided ministerial responsibility for the Green Belt, Conclusion

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