The new Framework makes planning much simpler and more accessible - distilling over 1,300 pages of often impenetrable jargon, scattered over 44 separate documents, into a clear, readable guide of around 50 pages.
I have been a long-time campaigner for the protection of the green belt and rural areas. I have been campaigning for the safeguarding of these areas for more than ten years – and these new regulations give an unswerving commitment to conserving Britain's countryside – whether or not it is nationally designated –and it promotes the redevelopment of previously developed ‘brownfield’ land.
The new law says planning decisions should be made by local people through a local plan – informed, where desired, by neighbourhood plans designed by families in parishes or housing estates.
This is to be welcomed and means local people will have a say over how their communities will look in the years to come.
I am also particularly pleased about what the new legislation means for villagers in Nazeing and Roydon with regards to traveller sites.
Asking a question of Planning Minister Greg Clark in the House of Commons this week, I said people in Nazeing and Roydon had, under the last Government, been forced to carry an unshared burden of having traveller sites and asked whether the new proposals would put a stop to such a situation.
Mr Clark replied: “The targets will be removed. My hon. Friend’s council would need to assess what provision it needed to make locally, and that will then be a matter for the council."
Mr Clark replied: “The targets will be removed. My hon. Friend’s council would need to assess what provision it needed to make locally, and that will then be a matter for the council."
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