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Planning Policy Statement 4: Planning for Sustainable Economic GrowthThe CLA has been lobbying for, and on, this planning policy statement for three years and awaiting its publication for many months. The statement, which the Government published very quietly on 29 December 2009, means we now have national planning policies for economic development.
It contains some real wins for our persistent lobbying on behalf of CLA members and their 260 different types of agricultural and rural-based businesses. The statement recognises that economic development takes place in rural areas; it encourages new uses for heritage assets, and it encourages mixed use rural development i.e. employment, housing (including affordable), services etc. on the same site.
The statement also provides for new build for tourism in rural areas if associated with an existing attraction, and it recognises that statutorily designated areas will have scope for tourism-related development. It provides that planning applications for sustainable economic development (defined in the PPS) should be treated favourably and it tells planning authorities to support applications for small-scale economic development including those in remoter locations where sites may not be readily accessible by public transport. All of the above is, of course, subject to scale, design and impact on landscape.
The new PPS is a material consideration for decision-making on planning applications for economic development and should be read and used by CLA members when putting together planning applications. It is available at the following link:
www.communities.gov.uk/documents/planningandbuilding/pdf/planningpolicystatement4.pdf
In due course, a CLA guidance note about it will be published, as well as an article in the CLA magazine on this important planning policy for CLA members. |
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