Happy New Year - I hope you had a good break.
Everyone loves lists, so to kick off 2013, here are my top ten
predictions for the Planning Act regime this year.
1. 13 infrastructure projects will be decided in 2013
It's not too difficult to give a rough estimate of the
number of decisions that will be made in any year at the start of
the year since they must be taken within a year of the
'preliminary meeting'. 12 projects had preliminary
meetings during 2012, but one of those was withdrawn
(Roosecote). Four more are having their PMs this month, so I
am predicting that two of those will be decided this year, i.e. at
least a couple of weeks early, making 13 in all. Unlucky for
some?
