The government is proposing to replace over 1,000 pages of
planning policy guidance materials with a single document covering
only 52 pages, the National Planning Policy Framework. The
draft has generated intense public interest, not least the campaign
Hands Off
Our Land run by the Daily Telegraph. Over 13,000
responses have been submitted to the Department for Communities and
Local Government (DCLG).
The Law Society's response has focused on those aspects where
there is uncertainty, DCLG how the presumption in favour of
sustainable development will operate in practice and the actual
definition of sustainable development.
Read the response