Even by the standards of the fast-paced, ever-changing, rock and roll world of town and country planning 2022 has been quite a year. Who better to review it, Sam Stafford thought, than Zack Simons, one of the most erudite, informed and entertaining thought leaders in the planning profession. Sam and Zack consider some of the year's important planning stories and, excitingly, Zack hands out his 2022 #Planarak Awards.
A point of clarification. In discussing the controversial foreword to the Pre-Submission Spelthorne Local Plan, Sam suggested that it had not been removed from the Submission version. It actually has been.
Some accompanying reading.
The Levelling Up White Paper
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/levelling-up-the-united-kingdom
Michael Gove scraps radical planning law following fierce Tory backlash
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2022/02/25/michael-gove-scraps-radical-planning-law-following-fierce-tory/#:~:text=Mr%20Gove%20disclosed%20his%20decision,is%20no%20standalone%20Planning%20Bill.%E2%80%9D
New minister suggests tweaks to local housing need and five-year land supply requirements
https://www.planningresource.co.uk/article/1748434/new-minister-suggests-tweaks-local-housing-need-five-year-land-supply-requirements#:~:text=The%20new%20housing%20minister%20Stuart,the%20levelling%2Dup%20agenda%E2%80%9D
Turley’s neutrality update
https://www.turley.co.uk/comment/nutrient-neutrality-march-2022-update-it-just-got-whole-lot-bigger
Counting the cost of delay: The economic impact of Local Plan delay to housing delivery
https://lichfields.uk/blog/2022/april/26/counting-the-cost-of-delay-the-economic-impact-of-local-plan-delay-to-housing-delivery/
The LURB
https://bills.parliament.uk/bills/3155
Michael Gove: Britain needs beautiful homes and communities. That’s why I’ll clamp down on developers of soulless dormitories
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-10816969/MICHAEL-GOVE-Britain-needs-beautiful-homes-communities.html
‘New NPPF to come out next month, says Gove
https://www.planningresource.co.uk/article/1789261/new-nppf-next-month-says-gove
Council rips up local plan following Truss’s pledge to cut ‘Stalinist’ housing targets
https://www.housingtoday.co.uk/news/council-rips-up-local-plan-following-trusss-pledge-to-cut-stalinist-housing-targets/5119693.article
The Growth Plan
https://www.gov.uk/government/topical-events/the-growth-plan
Michael Gove’s Written Ministerial Statement
https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-statements/detail/2022-12-06/hcws415
The #Planoraks 2022 🏆 - worst planning reform of the year
https://www.planoraks.com/posts-1/-the-planoraks-2022-worst-planning-reform-of-the-year
Council says its draft local plan will make area a ‘less attractive place to live’ due to brutal housing targets
https://www.planningresource.co.uk/article/1792929/council-says-its-draft-plan-will-area-less-attractive-place-live-due-brutal-housing-targets
Sunak’s vow to stop housebuilding on green belt labelled as ‘desperate’
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/jul/28/rishi-sunak-warned-pledge-to-stop-green-belt-development-will-worsen-uk-housing-crisis
Boris Johnson pledges no homes will be built on green fields
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2021/10/06/boris-johnson-pledges-no-homes-green-fields/
Some accompanying listening
Round and Round by New Order
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1tjQqWqqAA
50 Shades T-Shirts!
If you have listened to Episode 45 of the 50 Shades of Planning Podcast you will have heard Clive Betts say that...
'In the Netherlands planning is seen as part of the solution. In the UK, too often, planning is seen as part of the problem'.
Sam said in reply that that would look good on a t-shirt and it does. Further details can be found here: http://samuelstafford.blogspot.com/2021/07/50-shades-of-planning-t-shirts.html
