Planning

Question 1

why is planning needed

Answer 1

• provides infrastructure
• promotes economic growth and jobs
• protects the environment
• ensures public safety

Question 2

planning issues

Answer 2

• lack of affordable housing
• high rent
• homelessness
• over-development
• floods
• farmers and fracking
• travellers sites
• nimbyism (not in my back yard)

Question 3

development planning

Answer 3

a long-term plan/strategy for the area and decisions
- 2011 localism act gives ‘general powers of competence’ to local authorities and groups

Question 4

the planning process

Answer 4

1. application
2. consultation/advertising
3. officers report
4. consideration at committee (can be retrospective)
5. outline consent (agreed in principle)
6. detailed planning (full details/full permission)

Question 5

planning appeals

Answer 5

• 6 months to appeal to housing and communities secretary if planning is refused
• procedure: written statement/site visits (resolves 80%), formal hearing (16%), full planning inquiry (4%), high court judicial review (extreme - based on points of law)

Question 6

planning gain

Answer 6

increase in the value of land after permission is granted because communities gain from it
- developers usually agree to fund it to win approval
- section 106 agreements in the town and country planning act 1990

Question 7

greenfield sites

Answer 7

‘natural’ land that hasn’t been built on before

Question 8

brownfield sites

Answer 8

land which has been built on before that has been cleared and reused

Question 9

environmental protection

Answer 9

• greenbelt land = natural land around urban areas
• AONB (areas of natural beauty) = conserved
• national parks = recreational rural land
• SSSI (site of special scientific interest) = with unique features valuable to science
• forestry commission
• conservation areas
• listed buildings (protected by english heritage)