Planning Officers Society issues advice on Localism Act and NPPF

The Planning Officers Society has published an advice note for local planning authorities on how to respond to the enactment of the Localism Act and publication of the finalised National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF).

The advice note focuses on five matters:

• the new flexibility in relation to the local plan;
• some implications of the duty to cooperate;
• how LPAs can update or amend their local plan to make it compliant with the NPPF;
• retaining national or regional policy which will otherwise be lost; and
• development management decision-making and the NPPF. 

A copy of the advice note can be downloaded here. 

The Planning Officers Society also published a briefing last month for the Local Government Association on the revised NPPF.

The briefing addresses headline issues about the overall approach of the NPPF, and then considers how it deals with more specific aspects of planning policy.