North Wales LDP Update

Like buses, you can wait for ages and suddenly three turn up at the same time.

Conwy County BC commenced consultation on the Preferred Strategy for its replacement LDP from Monday 29 July 2019 to Friday 20 September 2019.. Denbighshire County Council is doing the same for its replacement LDP between 08 July 2019 and 30 August 2019. Although both documents set high level strategies to guide the detailed deposit plans they set out the overall strategy and general scale and likely location of development for the period of the plans.

Flintshire County Council has recently resolved to put its Local Development Plan on deposit from 30 September 2019.

We can never stress enough that your input to Emerging Policy documents and Plans can be crucial as it is far better and often more cost effective to influence the direction of a plan at this stage than latterly to be looking to present scheme that comply with plans. We are here to take your specific instructions

A Welsh Planning Inspectorate.

The Planning Inspectorate is an Independent Executive Agency of Government operating principally from Bristol with a Welsh base in Cardiff. It manages casework on planning and related applications and appeals, including Developments of National Significance and examines Local Development Plans (LDPs) using a team of dedicated Welsh Inspectors and administrators.

Welsh Government Minister Minister for Housing and Local Government stated that (in wales) “Planning law and policy has diverged and continues to diverge at an accelerating rate from England, in order to meet the unique needs of communities and businesses in Wales” . She has therefore instructed officials to begin work on a separate, dedicated service for Wales which is expected to be in place by the end of the current term of Government.

Green Belt Permission

Back in 2014 we secured planning permission for subdivision of a large house and garden and conversion of its outbuildings to a new house. Last year the client, approached us again to see whether extensions to the building would be possible. Being sited in the Cheshire Green Belt created issues with the concept of the “original” building, how that might in interpreted, the concept of inappropriate development and how that would be interpreted for the purposes of “inapproproppara 145(c) of the NPPF (the extension or alteration of a building provided that it does not result in disproportionate additions over and above the size of the original building) and whether the proposal amounted to that exception. After lots of hard work and pre-application discussions we have today secured planning permission for our clients enlargements and extensions.

If all those jargony terms and words confuse you - we exist to cut through them so you don’t have to and get permission.