Planning News – 22 November 2018

NPPF should include guidance on transport interchanges
The government has been urged to ensure that better integrated public transport is a defined planning policy objective.
Laura Edgar, The Planner

Huge Newport solar farm is first of a kind
A large solar farm has been approved near Newport, the first green energy scheme to receive planning permission as a Development of National Significance under the Planning (Wales) Act 2015.
Roger Milne, The Planner

Community group established for Old Oak
A Community Review Group has been formed to represent local people when planning outcomes are decided in Old Oak and Park Royal.
Laura Edgar, The Planner

Housing investment unfairly distributed
Government investment in five housing programmes across England over the next five years is skewed in favour of the South East.
Laura Edgar, The Planner

Enforcement action over barn ‘vandalism’
The Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority (YDNPA) has said it will serve an enforcement notice on the owner of a barn in Maulds Meaburn for deviating from plans that received planning permission.
Laura Edgar, The Planner

News round-up
A round-up of planning news

• Funding for Notts construction jobs
• £2.3m for West Midlands construction jobs
• Homes approved for Bilston urban village
• Warehouse regeneration approved in Leicestershire
• CIC to create map for change
• And more stories…
  Laura Edgar, The Planner