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Making need a key issue

Language: English Series: Planning (for the Natural and Built Environment) ; 5 March 1999, 16(1)Publication details: 1999Subject(s): Summary: 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.

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.