Living off the land?: while rural business developments can pose a threat to the environment, planners must be willing to be flexible

Article Abstract:

Traditional land-based industries are stagnating and other businesses are seeking to locate and grow in the countryside. The planning system will have to consider how to accommodate the increasing number of new households, and whether sustainable development could mean delaying economic activities in rural areas. A new policy statement by the Rural Development Commission, Planning for People and Prosperity, sets out priorities for rural planning, seeking to promote balanced and flexible approaches to the needs of rural communits by local planning authorities.

Planning, Rural development

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A draft that bites the bullet: Yorkshire and Humberside planners have welcomed the DoE's draft RPG as being both useful and detailed. And, importantly, it doesn't tread on local authorities' toes

Article Abstract:

Many senior planners have welcomed the draft regional planning guidance for Yorkshire and Humberside. It offers detailed and useful guidance without interfering with the policy making powers of local authorities. Its key recommendations include the annual need for 16,600 new houses in the area developed with consideration to sustainability and the environment, siting travel demand centres, encouraging small scale enterprises in rural areas and encouraging the development in former coalfield areas.

Regional planning

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Missing milestones on a high road to reform: the government's review of the Scottish system has met with short shrift from local authority planners

Article Abstract:

Many planners are expressing disappointment at the scale of the government's blueprint for review of the Scottish planning system. Some believe it will not radically change the system, although the review was the result of an 18 month consultation. However some welcomed the review, although believe it should be seen as a first instalment and not a complete set of reforms.

Scotland

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