Today's entry reports on the current status of standards,
guidance and advice relating to the Planning Act 2008 regime.
Background
Before 1 April this year, there were four, or possibly five,
categories of non-legislative 'support' for the Planning
Act regime (to try and use a neutral word not referring to any
particular type). These were:
- model provisions,
- standards,
- Infrastructure Planning Commission (IPC) guidance,
- Department of Communities and Local Government (CLG) guidance
and
- IPC advice.
Model provisions were in the form of a statutory
instrument although were not legislation in themselves. The IPC had
to have regard to them when making a development consent order
(DCO). In the 19th century, the equivalent of this was
'consolidated clauses' Acts, which contained model clauses
for infrastructure bills going before Parliament. The main
difference is that with the bills, they merely incorporated the
clauses by number, whereas the model
