Encyclopedia of Planning Law and Practice

Encyclopedia of Planning Law and Practice in Europe

A comprehensive source of information and guidance on planning law and policy in the United Kingdom.

From the publisher:

The Encyclopedia of Planning Law and Practice:

Includes all relevant legislation including EC legislation as well as domestic statutes and statutory instruments
Reproduces all the relevant policy documents for England and Wales, giving you access to up-to-date circulars, PPGs and PPSs, MPGs and MPSs, RPGs, and RSSs and TANs
Contains clear and in-depth annotations which explain each statement of the law and comment on all appropriate judicial decisions, so that the law is put into, context, technicalities are understood fully, and problems can be identified
Contains expanded expert commentary on the most important Government policy documents
Notes derivations of and amendments to legislation
Updated by monthly bulletins and quarterly looseleaf releases to keep you ahead of the changes

Coverage

From the Publisher:

Releases and monthly bulletins will include:

The New Environmental Impact Assessment Regulations applying to England, which consolidate existing Regulations and make several changes to the present law
The progress of the draft National Policy Framework
The Localism Act will provide for abolition of regional strategies; abolition of the Infrastructure Planning Commission; amendment of the provisions concerning Community Infrastructure Levy; provision for new “neighbourhood plans” to be approved after a 50% vote is achieved in a referendum; provision for “neighbourhood development orders” allowing communities to approve development without requiring normal planning consent
Developments relating to renewable energy, including wind turbines, wave and tidal power
Appeal procedures
Gypsy sites: review of government policy
Housing: the future for housing and conflict with the Green Belt and undesignated countryside

Case law on issues such as costs in enforcement notice appeals, demolition of old buildings in a conservation area, application of the Whitley principle, and jurisdiction of Inspector in claim that an enforcement notice is a nullity.

Contents

Statutes to 1990
Town and Country Planning Act 1990
Statutes from 1990
European legislation
Statutory instruments
Circulars
Planning Policy Statements (PPSs) and Planning Policy Guidance Notes (PPGs)
Mineral Policy Guidance Notes (MPGs)
Wales
Regional Planning Guidance (RPG)

More details about the Encyclopedia

Number of volumes: 9
Series: Local Government Library
Practice Area: Planning Law
ISBN: 9780421007406
General Editors: Christopher Lockhart-Mummery, QC; Joseph Harper, QC; David Elvin, QC; Landmark Chambers team; Professor Malcolm Grant CBE
Releases: Dec 2012 / Mar 2013


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