Planning news, views and insight – May 2022

This month we have four articles looking at this week’s local elections, levelling up, planning gain reform and the current shape of the local plan system. We also have our local plan updates and an invitation to a seminar on Housing Policy and Older People. Please do feel free to get in touch and share your thoughts.

• 2022 Local Elections It is that time of year again: May sees a plethora of district, borough, city and parish elections, together with all the London Boroughs and some other mayoral elections. More… 
• Levelling Up? The Levelling Up white paper was published in February. It was not quite what everyone was expecting, and only partially explained what levelling up was and will be. More…
• Planning Gain Reform Next week’s Queen’s speech is expected to include legislation to reform S106 payments and ‘affordable’ homes provision, replacing it with a flat-rate tariff, according to a report. More…
• Is the local plan system about to go into meltdown? There have been a spate of local plans failing, being withdrawn or delayed in recent months. Most recent have been Basildon and Castle Point; the former withdrawing before the examination in public. More…

Seminar: Housing Policy and Older People 

Are our housing policies serving our entire community? Are we providing enough options for older people? Come and hear senior politicians and the industry discuss these issues at a seminar being held on the morning of Tuesday 24 May at Warfield Park in Bracknell, Berkshire.
For more information and to sign up, click here!

Local Plan updates
Chelgate Local brings you Local Plan updates for Basildon, Brentwood, Epping Forest, Harlow, Medway, Sevenoaks and many more…