Making need a key issue

Making need a key issue - 1999 - Planning (for the Natural and Built Environment) 5 March 1999, 16(1) .

There has been debate on the meaning of PPG6 para 1.10, as to whether need is always a consideration for a planning authority or if the guidance only expresses a requirement to consider the issue of need in the process of preparing a development plan. Recent call-in rulings support the former, and this is reinforced by a ministerial statement that edge or out-of-centre proposals should demonstrate need.


NEED
OUT OF TOWN DEVELOPMENTS
PLANNING POLICY GUIDANCE NOTE SIX
RETAIL DEVELOPMENT