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Streamlining Information Requirements for Planning Applications The CLA has lobbied for years for the information required with planning applications to be proportionate. Local authorities clearly need enough information to be able to take decisions, but it should be much more difficult for them to ask for a 'shopping list' of often irrelevant or disproportionate surveys and reports before they will validate, or decide, a planning application. This is a problem which afflicts a high proportion of CLA members. It is often used to persuade applicants to withdraw, so as to reduce the workloads of under-resourced local authorities. We argued this in particular to the 2006-07 Barker Review, and to the Better Regulation Executive, which persuaded the Government to set up the 2008 Killian Pretty Review into the planning application process, which in turn recommended (among other improvements) a new policy on information requirements. This was published for consultation as streamlining information requirements in July. If it works, it should make the process much more proportionate, and save CLA members tens of millions of pounds a year of unjustified work. The CLA response is strongly supportive, but draws attention to the need for more effective sanctions if local authorities ignore the new policy. |
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