Double-digit inflation. Can’t take the train to the job, there’s a strike at the station.
Don’t push me cause I’m close to the edge.
I’m trying not to lose my head.
It’s like a jungle sometimes.
The House of Commons rose on Thursday 20 July 2023, and only then did we have a spate of DLUHC announcements from the following Monday onwards.
This blog post simply aims to keep track of it all. For the actual analysis, you will need to tune into two Clubhouse sessions (Clubhouse! It’s a bit like when people talk about “old-school hip hop” – nod appreciatively, high five, lockdown vibes, those were the days were they not?):
– 5 pm, 2 August – Gove’s “long-term plan” – RSVP here
– 5 pm, 3 August – plans, GPDO, fees – RSVP here
I’ll be joined by my rock steady crew: Sam Stafford (HBF), the eponymous Catriona Riddell, Landmark’s summer signing Hashi Mohamed, Annie Gingell (Tetlow King), Claire Petricca-Riding and Nicola Gooch (Irwin Mitchell), my Town Legal partner Victoria McKeegan and also perhaps by you?
We’ll discuss:
Michael Gove’s “long-term plan for housing” speech and press statement (24 July 2023), preceded by the same day by Rishi Sunak’s “PM to build 1 million new homes over this Parliament” announcement
A consultation paper on (more) changes to permitted development rights (24 July 2023)
A consultation paper on the implementation of plan-making reforms proposed in the Levelling-up and Regeneration Bill (25 July 2023)
The Government’s response to its consultation on increasing planning fees and performance (25 July 2023), following on from the draft Town and Country Planning (Fees for Applications, Deemed Applications, Requests and Site Visits) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2023 (laid before Parliament on 20 July 2023)
(All the above are summarised in a Town Legal update, which also features an analysis of the Secretary of State’s recent M&S Oxford Street decision).
A consultation paper on operational reforms to the NSIP consenting process (26 July 2023)
Updates to the following sections of Planning Practice Guidance (both 26 July 2023):
It makes me wonder how I keep from going under.
Simon Ricketts, 28 July 2023
Personal views, et cetera
SIMONICITY 