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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
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,
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
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
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.
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
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
b)
Draft
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
f)
Consultation
Paper on Changes to
g)
Draft
Consultation Paper on
h)
Draft
Dec
2003 - re-scheduled
Oct
2003 - Mary Holt, Sale of Field
Strips,
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,
July
2002 - Select Committee on DEFRA. Report of
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
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
July
2001 - New shape of Whitehall, Towards the London Plan, Amendment to
May
2001 -
February
2001 - RTPI and Green Belts, Green Wedges - DETR paper, Mobile phone masts,
Welsh Green Belts, Engineering - definition,
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
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,
April
2000 - Regional planning guidance,