Callls for guidance on when applications can be changed after
they have been made.
This is the second in a series of entries with suggestions for
how the Planning Act regime could be improved, as it approaches its
second anniversary on 1 March. The first entry can be found
here. The subject of this entry is making changes to
applications after they have been made.
The history of this issue can be traced back to the Heathrow
Terminal 5 application. It was the length of that process
(nearly seven years) that was one of the main drivers for the new
consenting regime introduced by the Planning Act 2008. One of
the features of the Heathrow project was the multitude of
applications - 38 applications under eight different consenting
regimes. I analysed these in an early pair of blog entries to
find out if the new regime would have boiled these down to a single
application (not quite)
here and
here.
