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On 11 March 2025, the Government introduced the Planning and Infrastructure Bill into Parliament with a promise to speed up planning decisions and ‘get Britain building’. Sharpe Pritchard’s Planning and Parliamentary team have been analysing the likely implications of the Bill in recent weeks. In the latest article of this series, we focus on Spatial…
Read more12 March 2025
The Planning and Infrastructure Bill was introduced into Parliament on 11 March 2025 with a promise to “get Britain building” and “tackle blockers” to the development of new housing and major infrastructure projects. The Bill will have significant implications for local authorities, developers and communities. Sharpe Pritchard’s Planning and Infrastructure team will be delving into…
Read more4 February 2025
The planning reform spotlight has been beaming down on the Nationally Significant Infrastructure (“NSIP”) regime in recent weeks, with a new Government policy paper Streamlining Infrastructure Planning published on 26 January. The Government’s ambition to decide 150 Development Consent Order (“DCO”) applications during this parliament would represent a significant achievement which the working paper acknowledges…
Read more12 December 2024
The first big announcement, in what looks likely to be a busy Christmas of planning reform, has been the publication of a policy paper on modernising planning committees by the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government. Having placed planning reform at the centre of its economic strategy, the Government is no doubt keen to…
Read more29 February 2024
It’s been (another) year in which the Government has tried to carry out the tricky balancing act between getting more houses built and living up to its green credentials. Last year, we reported on the Levelling-up and Regeneration Bill, which was finally enacted on 26 October 2023. In 2023 we helped clients draft amendments to…
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