Good Practice Guide: Negotiating the Planning Maze

RIBA

January 2006
Code: 55693
ISBN: 1 85946 183 2
978 1 85946 183 9
170 pp
Paperback
£17.95

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This series has been specifically developed to provide architects, and other construction professionals, with practical advice and guidance on a range of topics that affect them, and the management of their business, on a day-to-day basis.

Written in an easy-to-read, straightforward style each guide will be the reader’s first point of reference on the particular subject in question, offering a quick overview of the key points and then providing a ‘route map’ for finding further, more detailed information. Were appropriate, checklists, tables, diagrams and case studies have been included to aid ease-of-use.

The Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004 has changed the shape and complexity of the planning system in England and Wales significantly, in an effort to make it faster, fairer and more predictable.

This guide summarises the key changes, some of which remain to be clarified and brought into effect, and gives practical, straightforward and up-to-date advice on dealing with the transformed system. The guide:

• outlines the new regime of regional spatial strategies and local development documents and plans, and explains how you can grow your role in the plan-making process;
• explains the recent changes to the development control system and how best to prepare planning applications and negotiate permissions;
• sets out valuable sources of further information, including useful web links, an index of current planning policy guidance and statements, and a list of planning abbreviations to help demystify the new planning jargon.