This is entry number 273, published on 7 September 2011, of a
blog on the Planning Act 2008 infrastructure planning and
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Today's entry reports on changes to development consent
application criteria.
The Infrastructure Planning Commission (IPC) has been issuing
standards, guidance and advice surrounding the Planning Act regime.
The different names for these three things are significant,
and decide the extent to which they must be followed. Standards are
compulsory, guidance is not compulsory but reasons must be given
for departing from it, and advice is, well, advisory.
