Planning Law: A Practitioner's Handbook

Keeping pace with planning law is no easy matter. The mass of primary and secondary legislation in this field, allied to local and national policy and guidance, make this the most intensively regulated area of the law. This comprehensive practitioner's handbook covers the widest possible range of planning topics in a single volume and is written for planning practitioners in the private and public sectors. This book combines a readily accessible narrative with a substantial body of footnotes for those looking for more detail when it comes to case law and statutory materials. Planning Law: A Practitioner's Handbook provides answers for the busy planning professional to a whole range of problems which commonly arise in the day-to-day practice of planning practitioners. Its advantage lies in the fact that it is a single up-to-date reference book covering a broad range of topics which might otherwise only be found in a number of specialist texts. It also contains sections on village greens, assets of community value, public rights of way, and gypsies and travellers, all of which impact on the realisation of land for planning purposes. The inclusion of these topics will be of particular value to practitioners in the public sector looking for up-to-date guidance in these fields.

1. Administration of planning law 2. Development plans and plan-making 3. Neighbourhood plans 4. Development control 5. Permitted development 6. Planning permission 7. Revocation/modification of planning permission 8. Planning conditions 9. Planning obligations 10. Community infrastructure levy 11. Purchase/blight notices 12. Viability 13 Appeals and statutory review of planning decisions 14. Enforcement of planning control 15. Lawful development certificates 16. Environmental impact assessment 17. Habitats and Species Regulations 2017 18. Development in the green belt 19. AONBs, SSSIs, National Parks & other areas of conservation 20. Contribution of national policy in protecting the natural environment 21. Powers of local authority to require land to be cleaned up 22. Tree preservation orders, trees in conservation areas & hedgerows 23. Listed buildings and conservation areas 24. Revisions to the National Planning Policy Framework (July 2018) 25. Assets of community value 26. Town and village greens 27. Public rights of way 28. Gypsies and travellers