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The government have been called on by Lord Adonis and three business organizations to advance a on major infrastructure projects.
The projects include:
The chairman of the National Infrastructure Commission said at the Institute of Civil Engineers that Britain’s “historic weakness” has been to under-invest in infrastructure.
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In the House of Lords, the Neighbourhood Planning Bill has undergone its third reading with members approving an amendment that obliges examiners to give information to/meetings with neighbourhood planning groups.
Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth (the parliamentary under-secretary of state, Department for Communities and Local Government and Wales Office) conveyed amendment 1.
It was said by Bourne that within regulations for the amendment, the secretary of state, is permitted to explain the procedure an examiner of a neighbourhood plan or neighbourhood development order must follow.
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According to the chair of the Natural Capital Committee, green belt should be preserved and treated as a crucial feature of the country’s natural capital ‘asset register’.
The ‘Green Belt of the Future’ seminar was hosted at the GLA building in London, where Professor Dieter Helm was speaking.
Helm spoke of noting;
READ MORE“Decades of an almost entirely fruitless debate between people who think that the economy is on one side of the debate and the environment on the other”.
According to AECOM, unless steps are taken to incorporate and fast-track residential development in plans for a Northern Powerhouse, cities and regions in the north of England will be facing a housing crisis.
On top of infrastructure, the planning and infrastructure consultancy have said housing
READ MORE“must also become a vital element of Northern Powerhouse delivery if the north of England is to successfully achieve economic growth and rebalance the economy”.
Per a new report by the Home Builders Federation (HBF), over the past 25 years, there has been an approximate 80% drop in the number of SME builders.
It is claimed in the report that an additional 25,000 dwellings could be built per year, if their numbers were to return to the same levels as 2007.
It has been said by the representative for the House Building Industry (the HBF), that the report emphases the tasks faced by SME builders looking to increase output.
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Sajid Javid, The Communities Secretary, has said that Britain will get thousands of new homes through a quick-build modular method.
In an interview with Sky News, Sajid Javid said the approaching housing white paper would incorporate measures to build “ready-to-go” homes, from factory-built to custom-made apartment blocks.
After Javid had visited Germany and the Netherlands to look at prefab homes being built there, he concluded that if Germany and other countries could build made-to-measure, ready-made, ready-to-go modern, stylish homes, then so could the UK.
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The developers who mounted a successful High Court challenge over a Sussex neighbourhood plan have failed to win an appeal for the redevelopment of the former Sandgate Nurseries has been refused by Communities Secretary, Sajid Javid.
This decision came after the developers had effectively challenged the lawfulness of the approved Henfield Neighbourhood Plan.
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For neighbourhood plans to no longer be considered out-of-date in areas where the local authority does not have a five-year housing land supply, protection for them has been increased.
Having said that, if there is a significant lack of land supply in the wider local authority area this can be re-considered.
Written in a ministerial statement, the move was explained, as well as being covered by Planning Minister Gavin Barwell during the report stage and third reading of the Neighbourhood Planning Bill in the Commons.
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Three key conservation bodies have published a report focusing on the threat to National Parks from major developments and fracking.
long-established safeguards are being overridden by Short-term economic priorities and allowing inappropriate development in England’s National Parks.
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Initially refused by the borough council, outline proposals for a new sustainable neighbourhood of up to 680 new homes have been allowed on appeal by Sajid Javid.
This has come after he concluded that adverse impacts of the scheme do not significantly and demonstrably outweigh the identified benefit.
The 45-hectare site (close to a Botley Park Hotel and golf course) is planned to be developed on land north west of Boorley Green near Eastleigh, Hampshire.
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