Planning Advice to Fund Managers and Property Financiers
As part of the fund manager’s role to ensure that the investment portfolio performs as an asset class, planning considerations have a key role to play. This is because planning controls affect the supply and use of land and buildings, and hence value.
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Assessment of the Competition Commission’s provisional remedies on the Competitiveness of the Grocery Retailing
The Competition Commission has published the long-awaited provisional remedies to its competition findings in UK Grocery retailing.
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INDUSTRIAL CAPACITY – Draft Supplementary Planning Guidance for London (October 2007)
The Mayor of London first introduced draft Supplementary Planning Guidance (dSPG) on Industrial Capacity for consultation in 2003. However, due to significant changes in national and regional policy it has been necessary for a revised document to be produced for public consultation.
The document produced in October 2007 does not set out new policy but it is intended to advise how policies within Further Alterations to the London Plan 2006 - 2026 are implemented.
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DRAFT PPS4: SUSTAINABLE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
Is economic development really at the top of the Government’s planning agenda?
Communities and Local Government, after much delay, issued in December 2007 its long awaited draft of PPS4 “Planning for Sustainable Economic Development.” The draft guidance is subject to public consultation until 17 March 2008 and then will be issued in final form in the spring/summer of 2008.
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THE HOUSING REGENERATION BILL
This Bill was introduced in the House of Commons on 15th November 2007 and signals the demise of the Housing Corporation and English Partnerships (incorporating the Urban Regeneration Agency and the Commission for the New Towns).
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THE PLANNING BILL
The Government introduced in November 2007 the Planning Bill which
makes new procedures and arrangements so as to meet its objectives of a
planning system that is more responsive, efficient, fairer and
transparent.
Our Planning Bulletin summarises the Bill's main provisions and also
considers the prospects of the objectives of the Bill being delivered."
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TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING (ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT) (ENGLAND) (AMENDMENT) REGULATIONS 2007 – CONSULTATION
On 19 October Communities and Local Government (CLG) published a paper setting out proposals for amending the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) Regulations to take account of two judgements (Crystal Place/White City) of the European Court of Justice (ECJ) in May 2006.
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Consultation report in full (70k) >>
ASSESSMENT OF THE COMPETITION COMMISSION’S REPORT ON THE COMPETITIVENESS OF THE GROCERY RETAIL TRADE
In its provisional findings, published 31 October 2007, the Competition Commission’s interim report on competition within the grocery trade, concluded that there is a lack of competition in certain local markets which creates not only disadvantages to consumers in those areas but also allows retailers to weaken their offer to consumers nationally....
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GOVERNMENT ABANDONS THE PLANNING GAIN SUPPLEMENT
In his Pre-Budget Report of 9 October 2007, the Chancellor confirmed that the Government will abandon its proposed plans to introduce the Planning Gain Supplement (PGS). This was to be a tax, likely to be levied at a rate of around 20%, on all permitted developments created by the uplift in value of the land and buildings on the grant of planning permission.