Planning Policy

Richard Harwood KC is a planning, environment and public law silk at 39 Essex Chambers. He was appointed Queen's Counsel in 2013 and awarded an OBE for services to planning and environment law decision making in 2014. Richard is the author of Bloomsbury Professional’s Planning Enforcement and Planning Permission and other books. In 2015 he was appointed by the Minister for Housing and Planning as the sole lawyer on the Local Plans Expert Group. Victoria Hutton is a planning, environment and public law barrister at 39 Essex Chambers. She has consistently been voted as one of the top planning barristers (under-35 category) in the country. She has gained considerable experience of strategic planning with particular expertise in the context of local plan examinations and the formation of/challenges to neighborhood plans. This title is included in Bloomsbury Professional's Planning Law online service.

Preface
Table of statutes
Table of statutory instruments
Table of cases
1. Introduction
2. Legal Principles
3. Strategic Environmental Assessment and Habitats
4. National Planning Policy – England
5. National Policy Statements
6. National Waste and Air Quality Policies and Strategies
7. Local Plans
8. Brownfield Land Registers
9. London and Devolved City Regions
10. Neighbourhood Development Plans
11. Supplementary Planning Documents and other Non-development Plan Policy
12. National Planning Policy – Wales
13. Strategic Plans – Wales
14. Welsh Local Development Plans
15. Welsh Supplementary Planning Guidance
16. Northern Ireland: Plans and Policies Adopted by Ministers
17. Local Development Plans in Northern Ireland
18. Marine Planning
19. National Agencies’ Policies
20. Local Policies
21. Representations and Examinations
22. High Court Challenges
Appendix 1 Town and Country Planning Act 1990
Appendix 2 Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004
Appendix 3 Planning Act 2008
Appendix 4 Environmental Assessment of Plans and Programmes Regulations 2004, SI 2004/1633
Appendix 5 Town and Country Planning (Local Planning) (England) Regulations 2012, SI 2012/767
Appendix 6 Neighbourhood Planning (General) Regulations 2012, SI 2012/637
Appendix 7 Town and Country Planning (Brownfield Land Register) Regulations 2017, SI 2017/403
Appendix 8 Conservation of Habitats and Species Regulations 2017, SI 2017/1012
Index