Full Description
Planning Law: A Practitioner's Handbook is an indispensable reference work for the busy planning professional, providing answers to a whole range of problems which commonly arise in day-to-day practice.
The second edition has new and expanded chapters on a number of topics, such as housing supply and the operation of the titled balance, renewable energy from wind and solar. It also deals with national policy in conserving and enhancing the natural environment (including the protected landscapes duty in the case of national parks and National Landscapes [formerly AONBs], planning in the Green Belt, planning and flood risk, planning in town centres and air quality). The book also has up-to-date chapters on planning enforcement, legal challenges and public rights of way.
This second edition covers several important recent developments since the publication of the first edition, such as the Planning and Infrastructure Act 2025. There are also chapters dealing with recent reforms and further anticipated changes to planning law.
Contents
Preface
1. Reform
2. Administration of Planning Law
3. Development Plans and Plan-making
4. Neighbourhood Planning
5. Development Control (Including Use Classes)
6. Planning Permission
7. Permitted Development
8. Planning Conditions
9. Planning Obligations
10. Housing Supply and Delivery and Operation of the 'Tilted Balance'
11. Community Infrastructure Levy
12. Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects
13. Lawful Development Certificates
14. Enforcement of Planning Control
15. Purchase Notices and Blight Notices
16. Renewable Energy From Wind and Solar Power
17. Development in the Green Belt
18. The Contribution of National Policy in Conserving and Enhancing the Natural Environment
19. Environmental Impact Assessment
20. Habitats Regulations and Biodiversity Net Gain
21. Planning and flood risk
22. Tree Preservation Orders, Trees in Conservation Areas and Hedgerows
23. Planning in Town Centres
24. Air Quality
25. Heritage: Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
26. Public Rights of Way
27. Powers of Local Planning Authority to Require Land to be Cleaned up
28. Gypsies and Travellers
29. Appeals and Review of Planning Decisions
