Its the 7th April and the National Standards and Prior Approval applications are now permanently conjoined. From yesterday the 6th of April it became impossible to generate new dwellings through Prior Approval in Part 2 and Part 20 of the GPDO. This is explored in full in the explanatory memorandum which can be found at […]
The term ‘Shell Application’ was given to me by Chris Dale, the then Head of Development Management at Woking Borough Council and describes an application that deals only with the external appearance of a building. ‘Shell Applications’ are full planning applications that normally co-incide with an application for prior approval where the prior approval allowance […]
Para 11d of the NPPF describes the ’tilted balance’ test. The tilted balance was put into the NPPF in order to address planning authority performance for those authorities that could not or would not grant planning permission for housing lead development to meet their own objectively assessed needs. It works like this. Para 11d sets […]