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POS welcomes in principle the Government’s new proposals that enable communities themselves to address the serious shortfall in housing in rural areas.

The publication of this new Society advice note is most timely since the first applications have now been submitted to the IPC and, as a consequence of the wide areas of consultation, there are an awful lot of authorities affected by NSIPs.

POS pleads local infrastructure benefits from new homes bonus

POS says proposals for schools should be in accord with local and neighbourhood plans.

POS welcomes the potential for local communities to have a say over their own future spatial plans; however, we do have some queries over the detail of such a proposal.

POS has risen to the challenge laid down by the new Government and submitted suggestions to cut excessive red tape in national and local government.

Revocation of regional strategies and their housing targets announced by Eric Pickles a sorry story says POS

Paul Watson, the POS Vice President Emeritus and Society representative on the review working group, comments on the Review's Final report

Stephen Tapper from Enfield becomes the 14th POS President

In response to the Chancellor's budget announcements the Society welcomes the recognition that planning is at the forefront of delivering economic growth

In the face of no further Housing and Planning Delivery Grant bolstering planning budgets, no doubt politicians and the general public will welcome the prospect of savings arising from budget cuts. They will not; however, readily accept that these come with a reduced capacity to produce work and deliver services to the same standards.

In a speedy response to the announcement by Communities Secretary Eric Pickles and Local Government Association chair Baroness Eaton that councils will need to make it easier for residents to influence development proposals the Planning Officers Society has issued a reminder that it already provides good practice advice on pre-application discussions.

As the Government announces an end to the labelling of garden land as brownfield, POS suggests this may mean a greater demand for green field sites.

TISonline Planning information stream provided by CIPFA provides a ready and easy to use digest of planning information

Society expresses concern and offers views on the implications.

POS launches it's Manifesto in an attempt to influence the new Government.

POS welcomes the principle of giving more power and autonomy over planning to local government.

POS is busy preparing a manifesto on what effective planning should be under the new Government

POS President, David Hackforth, stresses that whatever the incoming government's reforms, it should not lose sight of planning's positive role.

POS President comments on the planning content of the manifestos of the three main political parties.

Some authorities whose area is subject to particularly declining housing market conditions, will undoubtedly suffer as a consequence

POS welcomes the changes made made in response to the concerns raised in the original consultation document.

POS President welcomes the announcement, albeit several years late.

POS doubts DCLG commitment

The Planning Officers Society believes the Conservative Party’s planning proposals show immense promise as an opportunity to re-write the planning ground rules; however, the Society asserts that that the planning system is a valuable way of addressing the big issues of the day and the Conservatives have missed a big opportunity by ignoring them.

The unique consortium comprising key public and private sector organisations today welcomed the amended regulations for the Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL). The group has worked closely with government over the last 2 years to ensure that the regulations provide a pragmatic and flexible way forward to implementation of CIL.

The Planning Officers Society, one of the sponsors of the RTPI 2009 Planning Awards, was present at the Awards Ceremony on 4th February at the London Hilton to see the winners receiving their Awards.

POS is supporting the assertion made by Natural England and the Campaign to Protect Rural England that the role of the Green Belt needs to be assessed in a wide perspective, not just according to its statutory purposes. The Society suggests this should be undertaken by local authorities alongside their green infrastructure planning and character assessments.

POS has expressed concern that the new responsibilities placed on local authorities under the Planning Act 2008 will bring about additional costs in discharging those responsibilities and the loss of funding that will accompany them.

POS has expressed extreme disappointment with the DCLG decision not to pursue changes to publicity requirements such that Local Planning Authorities would have discretion as to whether or not press notices were carried out.