Planning Publications

Planning Alert 26th January 2012

Welcome to the Michelmores Planning Alert, where we bring you a round-up of the latest news and legal developments affecting the industry. We hope that you find this useful and welcome your feedback. Please contact us with any comments or queries. Items in this issue include:

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Welcome to the Michelmores Planning Alert, where we bring you a round-up of the latest news and legal developments affecting the industry. We hope that you find this useful and welcome your feedback. Please contact us with any comments or queries.

Michelmores Solicitors Planning Alert

Welcome to the Michelmores Planning Alert, where we bring you a round-up of the latest news and legal developments affecting the industry. We hope that you find this useful and welcome your feedback. Please contact us with any comments or queries. Items in this issue include:

Planning Alert - 6 July 2011

Welcome to the Michelmores Planning Alert, where we bring you a round-up of the latest news and legal developments affecting the industry. We hope that you find this useful and welcome your feedback. Please contact us with any comments or queries.

Court of Appeal decision will benefit holiday park operators

A recent Court of Appeal decision has held that planning conditions attached to an expired permission are not enforceable and this could have a significant impact on some holiday parks' development potential.

Planning Alert - 8 June 2011

Localism Bill passes the Commons Stage... Proposal published for National Planning Policy Framework... 2011 FITS regulations now in force... CALA loses in the Court of Appeal... Green bank to be lending by April 2012... DCLG invites bids for project funding grants... Adoption of Private Sewers Regulations... Buglife case provides useful guidance to developers on EIA and ES... Empty Homes Charity highlights Councils' lack of development in empty homes...

Planning application succeeds after Michelmores' forensic research

Owners of a Cornish holiday park are celebrating planning approval for some residential units after specialist lawyers at Michelmores Solicitors undertook exhaustive research into the property's extensive and complicated planning history.

Planning Alert - 10 May 2011

Clark names recipients of £3.2m neighbourhood planning pot... DCLG plans to amend Energy Performance Certificates (EPC) Regulations... Ministers support change of use of farm buildings to affordable homes... DECC publishes draft Carbon Plan... DCLG guidance on applying the Mobile Homes Act 1983... Solar companies seek judicial review of government's FIT review...

Planning Case Law Round Up

Decisions from recent cases that will be of interest to developers and local authorities.

"Zero carbon" in a zero carbon home

The March 2011 Budget saw a further step taken toward the creation of a workable definition for zero-carbon homes. The Zero Carbon Hub has a lead responsibility for delivering homes to zero carbon standards by 2016 and it saw the government endorsing its final recommendations for the Carbon Compliance levels of new homes.