This is entry number 268, published on 12 August 2011, of a blog
on the Planning Act 2008 infrastructure planning and authorisation
regime. Click
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Today's entry is an up-to-date summary of the regime for
authorising major infrastructure projects introduced by the
Planning Act 2008 and amended by the Localism Bill.
This is the ninth summary, which is updated and reissued every
few months. For more detailed information, you can get hold of our
free 16-page brochure on the Act - click
here to obtain one. For a complete picture of the new regime,
Bircham Dyson Bell has written a book on it, published by
Butterworths at the end of July 2009. Click
this link for more details. A second edition is on the cards.
For up-to-date links to all the relevant Planning Act documents,
see this
blog entry.