This is entry number 282, published on 5 October 2011, of a blog
on the Planning Act 2008 infrastructure planning and authorisation
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Today's entry reports on the expiry of transitional
arrangements for the Planning Act regime.
In common with other legislation, the Planning Act regime
contains some 'transitional provisions', i.e. where it
allows steps already taken when the Act came into force to count
towards the new regime. Actually, it only contains two, and one of
these expired at the weekend.
The one that has no expiry date is the ability of the government
to decide that an old policy document can be treated as a National
Policy Statement (NPS) so that it doesn't have to produce a
brand new one. It has not chosen to do this so far, and the
opportunity to do so will fade over time. This is because the
provision
