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Public Accounts Committee thirty-third report, planning for homes, speeding up planning applications for major housing developments in England [electronic resource]

By: Language: English Publication details: London UK Parliament 2009Subject(s): LOC classification:
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Terms of reference -- Summary -- Conclusions and recommendations -- 1 - Improving incentives for local planning authorities-- 2 - Improving the development management process -- 3 - Improving planning capacity -- Formal minutes -- Witnesses -- List of written evidence -- List of reports from the Committee of Public Accounts 2008-09
Summary: Examines the efficiency of measures set out by the Department for Communities and Local Government to improve the development management stage of the planning process and to increase planning capacity. Finds that: the Department for Communities and Local Government has increased the number of major applications to 67%; it needs more data to improve the time taken to deliver new housing; pre-application discussions need to be clearer and more consistency is needed in Local Authorities' funding of planning applications.
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Terms of reference -- Summary -- Conclusions and recommendations -- 1 - Improving incentives for local planning authorities-- 2 - Improving the development management process -- 3 - Improving planning capacity -- Formal minutes -- Witnesses -- List of written evidence -- List of reports from the Committee of Public Accounts 2008-09

Examines the efficiency of measures set out by the Department for Communities and Local Government to improve the development management stage of the planning process and to increase planning capacity. Finds that: the Department for Communities and Local Government has increased the number of major applications to 67%; it needs more data to improve the time taken to deliver new housing; pre-application discussions need to be clearer and more consistency is needed in Local Authorities' funding of planning applications.