The Planning Bill: Infrastructure proposals

Journal of Planning and Environment Law

Volumn , Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1411-1422

  Harwood, Richard ^a  

^a Barrister   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Major infrastructure projects; Planning permission; Planning policy statements; Planning procedures

Indexed keywords

EID: 54749112303     PISSN: 03074870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (60)

1. Barrister, 39 Essex Street Chambers. This article has benefited from discussions about the Bill with Matthew Horton Q.C., Martin Edwards, Gordon Nardell, Stephen Tromans and James Burton of 39 Essex Street Chambers; Nicola Raistrick of Winckworth Sherwood; Phil Michaels of Friends of the Earth; Penny Simpson of DLA Piper and others. The views expressed in this article are the author's own.
2. For discussion of the Bill as introduced into the Commons see Current Topics [2008] J.P.L. 245.
3. For example, Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004 s. 19(2) (a).
4. All clause and schedule references are to the Bill as introduced in the House of Lords following its Commons stages. The references will changed by further amendments by the time of Royal Assent.
5. Hansard, Written Answers, May 14, 2008, cols 1636W-1637W.
6. Planning Bill cl.5(5).
7. Planning Bill cl.10(2).
8. Planning Bill cl.5(4).
9. Planning White Paper para.3.25.
10. Planning Bill cl.168(2).
11. Bovis Homes Ltd v New Forest DC [2002] EWHC 483 (Admin) at [317]-[319].
12. Muyldermans v Belgium (A/214B) (1993) 15 E.H.R.R. 204 (October 22, 1991).
13. Planning White Paper paras 3.27, 3.28.
14. Planning Bill cl.9(2).
15. Planning White Paper para.3.9, first bullet point.
16. June 2, 2008.
17. Planning White Paper para.3.38.
18. Hansard, June 2, 2008, cols 576-577.
19. Planning Bill cl.30
20. and see Sch.2 which disapplies those regimes when development consent is required.
21. Planning Bill cl.14(1).
22. Planning Bill cl.14(5), (6).
23. Planning Bill cl.15.
24. Planning Bill cl.16.
25. Planning Bill cl.17.
26. Planning Bill cl.19.
27. Planning Bill cl.19.
28. Planning Bill cl.22.
29. Planning Bill cl.23.
30. Planning Bill cl.24.
31. Planning Bill cl.25.
32. Planning Bill cl.26.
33. Planning Bill cl.27.
34. Planning Bill cl.28.
35. The Regulatory Impact Assessment for the Bill estimates that commissioners would be paid £100,000 a year, with the chair on £140,000.
36. Planning Bill cll 32, 143, 144.
37. Planning Bill cl.41.
38. Planning Bill cl.46.
39. Planning Bill cll 46 and 47.
40. Planning Bill cl.53.
41. Planning Bill cl.54(4), (5).
42. Planning Bill cl.58.
43. Planning Bill cl.59.
44. Planning Bill Sch. 1 paras 6, 7.
45. Planning Bill cll 72, 81.
46. Planning Bill cll 106, 107.
47. Planning Bill cl.86.
48. Planning Bill cl.96.
49. Planning Bill cl. 104.
50. Planning Bill cll 89-91.
51. Planning Bill cl.88(1).
52. Planning Bill cl.92(4).
53. Planning Bill cl.92(7).
54. Planning Bill cl.96(6).
55. Planning Bill cll 89 to 91 refer to the parties making oral representations. The Govenment voted down Opposition amendments in Public Bill Committee to allow parties to appear by their counsel, solicitors or agents (cols 463-464).
56. Local Government Act 1972 s.250(2), (3)are usually applied to particular Acts to give this power. While rarely exercised, it is a necessary power to encourage full disclosure of relevant material. Section 250(5) of the 1972 Act is applied in relation to costs: cl.93(4).
57. Planning Bill cl.99.
58. Hansard, col.600.
59. Planning Bill cl.98.
60. Allen v Gulf Oil Refinery Ltd [1981] A.C. 1001.