The list below is a record of advice the Planning Inspectorate has provided in respect of the Planning Act 2008 process.
There is a statutory duty under section 51 of the Planning Act 2008 to record the advice that is given in relation to an application or a potential application and to make this publicly available. Advice we have provided is recorded below together with the name of the person or organisation who asked for the advice and the project it relates to. The privacy of any other personal information will be protected in accordance with our Information Charter which you should view before sending information to the Planning Inspectorate.
Note that after a project page has been created for a particular application, any advice provided that relates to it will also be published under the ‘s51 advice’ tab on the relevant project page.
Advice given between between 1 October 2009 and 14 April 2015 has been archived. View the archived advice.
General
Enquiry
I would like to speak to someone regarding the recent changes (March 2017) to the Planning Act 2008 to allow 500 houses to be included within a DCO application. I am keen to understand who or what prompted this change and what organisations have been involved in such a policy change. It is a concerning turn of events for those communities already facing extreme disruption so I would like to understand more about the logic behind it.
Advice given
The Planning Inspectorate is impartial and does not comment on Government policy.
Our parent ministerial department, and owner of the Planning Act 2008 (PA2008) regime, is the Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG). DCLG may be able to assist with your enquiry, and details about how to contact the department are available on its website here: attachment 1
For information, I am providing a link to DCLG’s guidance which has been published in conjunction to the changes to section 160 of the PA2008: attachment 2
