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Planning Minister Greg Clark today met with Fiona Reynolds of the National Trust as part of the draft National Planning Policy Framework consultation…
First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government
Statements from DCLG and the Planning Inspectorate.
Communities Secretary Eric Pickles has today published guidance to local authorities on how to protect voluntary and community groups from disproportionate…
New powers to give local people unprecedented influence to determine the future of their areas are to be tried out in 36 more front-runner areas…
The announcement of the successful Humber Enterprise Zone to drive local growth and create thousands of new jobs was followed today with a visit…
The location of eleven new Enterprise Zones, designed to boost local growth and create over 30,000 new jobs by 2015, were announced today by…
Your recent editorial suggests the Government needs to find new ways to unlock the planning system by ensuring communities enjoy the fruits …
Contrary to what Terence Blacker says (5 August), the status of the countryside is unchanged in the draft National Planning Policy Framework…
A new ‘Planning Guarantee’ will create greater certainty for local communities by speeding up local planning applications that get stuck in …
The Department for Communities and Local Government responds to incorrect claims by the National Trust that reforms of the planning system will…
Interns working at the Department for Communities and Local Government meet the Deputy Prime Minister.
Minister for Decentralisation, Greg Clark, announced today that any citizen who wants to take social action and find community-led solutions…
Response to article in The Daily Telegraph, ‘New planning laws endanger wildlife sites’ 18 July 2011. A Department for Communities and Local…
Dear Sir The Coalition Government has no intention of weakening its commitment to the Green Belt (“Planning rules pave the way for Green Belt…
Twenty nine proposals will compete for the final ten enterprise zone spots, Communities Secretary Eric Pickles announced today, following the…
DCLG responds to a misleading press report about the national planning policy framework.
Statement about the review of statutory duties on local authorities.
Pioneering councils eager to demonstrate how they would ensure the benefits of development would be shared with their community were today named…
Planning Minister Greg Clark today said the Government could scrap red tape in order to encourage ‘meanwhile uses’ of empty buildings, transforming…
Local Government Minister Grant Shapps and Decentralisation Minister Greg Clark today called on a new generation of councillors to shake up …
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