The Government’s planning reforms could make it easier to build on green belt land, parliamentary advisers have suggested. Researchers at the independent House of Commons library have said that the Government’s legal presumption in favour of sustainable development will apply “even within the green belt”. The presumption, set out in the Draft National Planning Policy [...]
Archive | September, 2011
WEST Berkshire residents are a step closer to knowing where 10,500 homes will be built in the district. Last night (Thursday), district councillors approved a core strategy for West Berkshire to 2026, favouring two key ‘strategic’ sites for 1,450 homes at Newbury Racecourse and 1,000 at Sandleford Park to be built. The plans for these [...]
As part of Asset Land’s commitment to our investors, we like to ensure that you are up to date with any developments that are advantageous to your investment with us. Over the last weekend, it has emerged in a Sunday Times report that the industry figures behind the controversial shake-up of planning laws includes senior [...]
English Heritage fear proposed changes to the planning regulations will result in Britain’s rich historic environment being harmed by allowing building and development to take place on heritage sites with “no or little justification required”. Their warning comes as the National Trust hit back at “rock-throwing” ministers after they described the organisation as “nihilistic” and [...]
