This is entry number 266, published on 4 August 2011, of a blog
on the Planning Act 2008 infrastructure planning and authorisation
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Today's entry reports on the implications for infrastructure
of the draft National Planning Policy Framework.
Last week, the government published a draft of its long-awaited
National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF). The purpose of this
document is to replace the existing series of 30 Planning Policy
Statments, Planning Policy Guidance and Minerals Policy Guidance
and 15 letters to chief planning officers (although PPS10 (waste)
is to survive for the moment, until the arrival of the National
Waste Management Plan). This will condense 900,000 words into a
mere 16,500. It will certainly be more readable, but will it be
comprehensive enough?
